ISLAND PARADISE Tourists enjoy the white sand beach of Boracay Island in Malay, Aklan. A negative coronavirus test result 72 hours before travel is required of tourists who plan to visit the famed island resort. AKEAN FORUM/BOY RYAN ZABAL

Tourists forging travel docs face hefty fines – DOH

ILOILO City – Tourists falsifying coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) test results, which are required to enter different destinations, may face hefty fines and possible...
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Court convicts Mejorada anew over FB posts vs Drilon

ILOILO City – The Pasay Regional Trial Court has convicted anew a fugitive social media blogger who has an outstanding warrant of arrest to...
NO PAIN, NO GAIN. A girl gets a shot of the measles vaccine during the first day of the Department of Health’s Measles-Rubella and oral polio mass immunization at a covered gym in La Castella in Negros Occidental. ARANKA LA CASTELLANA

DOH vaccination kickoff: 30K kids immunized vs measles, polio

ILOILO City – The Department of Health (DOH) in Western Visayas vaccinated 30,859 children on the first day of its Measles-Rubella and oral polio...
Three electric cooperatives in the province of Negros Occidental have lowered their power rates for the month of January. PNA BACOLOD

Over 90K Ileco ‘lifeline’ consumers get aid from ‘Pantawid Liwanag’

ILOILO City – The “Pantawid Liwanag” program Phase 1 of the Iloilo Electric Cooperative (Ileco) I, II and III benefited over 90,000 consumers in...

IPPO nets 91 fugitives, 65 loose guns in January

ILOILO City – For the month of January, the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) was able to arrest a total of 91 wanted persons. Out...

2 PRO-6 cops drug users, tests show

ILOILO City – Two police officers under the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) tested positive for illegal drug use. They were among the 6,884 cops...
House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco (left) threw his full support to the bill adding a congressional seat for Iloilo City, seeing the need for proportional representation and spur an economic reboot. House Bill 8477 was introduced by Iloilo City’s Rep. Julienne Baronda.

‘2 BETTER THAN 1’; Iloilo City may soon have another legislative district

ILOILO City – The House of Representatives approved House Bill 8477 or “An Act Reapportioning the Lone Legislative District of the City of Iloilo”...

‘Army assets’ shot dead

ILOILO City – A couple were shot dead inside their house in Barangay Malamboy-Bondolan, Alimodian, Iloilo. Areston Alves, 62, and his live-in partner, Georgia Miller,...

SP to LTO: Defer vehicle inspection scheme

ILOILO City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) wants the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to delay implementing here a new system in vehicle registration. The city’s...
What’s inside this COVAC PLAN 21-22? Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. says it contains Iloilo province’s vaccination strategies against coronavirus. PHOTO COURESY OF TARA YAP

Defensor unveils COVAC PLAN 21-22

ILOILO – Equitably and safely vaccinating Ilonggos is the focus of Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr.’s coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Vaccine Deployment and Immunization Plan...