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Dinagyang in ‘real settings’ awaits online spectators

ILOILO City – For the past 53 years, Dinagyang tribes’ performances told stories through gigantic props and striking canvasses. Next year’s digital staging of...
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190 Iloilo cops take ‘surprise’ drug test

ILOILO City – One hundred ninety personnel of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) were subjected to random drug testing yesterday. Police Colonel Gilbert Gorero, provincial...
Antidrug operatives conduct an inventory of illegal drugs seized from Lovely Penicilla during an entrapment operation in Barangay Tanza Timawa Zone II, Iloilo City Monday night. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

‘I just want to earn money’: Mother nabbed for selling ‘shabu’

ILOILO City – Police confiscated six sachets of suspected shabu valued at around P60,000 in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Tanza Timawa Zone II,...
HARD WORK PAYS OFF. Iloilo City is in a better position to recover from the current health and economic crisis due to the leadership and preparedness shown by Mayor Jerry Treñas, according to a real estate sector expert.

ILOILO CITY CHARMS LOCATORS

City overtakes Cebu, Clark in office space sales ILOILO City – The City of Love has charmed most locators to settle in the metropolis despite...
TREÑAS

‘No holiday lockdown in Iloilo City’

ILOILO City – No lockdown. Only advisories for repatriates to strictly follow safety health protocols this holiday season. This was the clarification of Mayor Jerry...
Wearing facemasks, these students gather around their teacher during counseling in this photo from the Department of Education. Starting Jan. 11 next year, authorities will be allowing face-to-face classes in select schools nationwide. DEPED

119 Iloilo schools ‘picked’ for face-to-face classes

ILOILO – Some 119 elementary and secondary schools in the province have been “nominated” to take part in the pilot run of face-to-face classes...

Army, cops on alert vs Reds’ anniv attacks

ILOILO City – Government troops in Western Visayas are bracing for possible major attacks by the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) ahead of its...
REYES

DOH pushes for safe, healthy holidays

ILOILO – Six hundred eighteen people have so far died due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Western Visayas, leaving empty seats at some...
Dr. Jane Juanico, head of the Department of Health Region 6’s Infectious Disease Section, says frontline health workers in hospitals are to be vaccinated first for coronavirus disease 2019. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

ILOILO, BACOLOD EYED FOR VACCINE ROLLOUT; DOH: Health workers first in COVID vaccine queue

ILOILO City – Iloilo and Bacolod City are among the “focused areas” in the distribution of the vaccine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) once...
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QR code system to take full effect by March 2021

ILOILO City – The city government has deferred anew its coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) contact tracing scheme using quick response (QR) codes.  To give city...