Bizman loses P300K to robbers

ILOILO City – A businessman lost P300,000 to unidentified robbers in Barangay Poblacion Ilaud, Zarraga, Iloilo.  The 37-year-old Joemar Superal was on his way home...
Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. of Iloilo province says keeping the accord between the University of the Philippines and the Department of National Defense would ensure academic freedom in the university. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

UP alumnus Defensor rues ditching of UP-DND accord

ILOILO – Keeping the security accord between the University of the Philippines (UP) and the Department of National Defense (DND) would have been better...
The faith in the Child Jesus is stronger than ever in this year’s Dinagyang Festival. Iloilo City’s Mayor Jerry Treñas (far right) prepares the Señor Santo Niño for a motorcade together with (from left) Reverend Father Jose Gonzales of the San Jose de Placer Parish; Judgee Lopez Peña, chairman of the Iloilo Festivals Foundation, Inc.; and Atty. Jobert Peñflorida, foundation president. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

DINAGYANG UNITES: ‘One Dinagyang, One Iloilo’

ILOILO City – This city’s phenomenal Dinagyang Festival in honor of the Child Jesus has been credited time and again as a unifying force...
Bust of Father Ambrosio Galindez

Sto. Niño devotees honor ‘Father of Dinagyang’

ILOILO City – Devotees of Señor Santo Niño honored the priest widely acknowledged as the “Father of Dinagyang” – Father Ambrosio “Boy” Galindez, the...
The Philippine agriculture department is calling on hog raisers to secure insurance packages for their pigs in case their farms get affected by the African Swine Fever (ASF). DA WESTERN VISAYAS PHOTO

Iloilo bans livestock transport carriers from ASF-hit areas

ILOILO – The provincial government has banned the entry of livestock transport carriers “without disinfection certificate” from Luzon and Mindanao that are currently suffering...

Calinog teachers’ cash incentive not released? DepEd forms probe team

ILOILO – Teachers of Malitbog National High School in Barangay Malitbog Centro, Calinog town complained of not having received their Productivity Enhancement Incentive (PEI)...
Antidrug oepratives conduct an inventory of suspected shabu seized from Elmer Niquia in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Alalasan, La Paz, Iloilo City Thursday. IPPO

P3.2-M shabu seized

ILOILO City – A top drug trafficking suspect here was arrested in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Buray, Oton, Iloilo. Shabu worth P3.2 million was...

WV’s daily COVID cases hit triple digits

ILOILO City – The daily number of newly confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Western Visayas returned to triple digits. On Jan 21,...
According to Dr. Jocelyn Te, medical officer of the Department of Health Region 6, better public awareness on leptospirosis was a factor in the sharp drop in cases from 2019 to 2020. The regional health office and local government units stepped up their information drive. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

WV records 210 ‘leptos’ cases in 2020; Death toll at 22, says DOH

ILOILO City – Last year, Western Visayas recorded 210 cases of leptospirosis, with 22 deaths, according to the Department of Health (DOH). The figures were...
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WHERE ARE THE BLOOD DONORS? 14 Iloilo LGUs have zero blood donation

ILOILO – Fourteen out of 42 local government units (LGUs) in the province did not have a record of blood donations or organized bloodletting...