“Our schools must have easy access to clean water for the new normal,” says , Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. of Iloilo.

Remote school now has water system

ILOILO – Nearly 500 schoolchildren and teachers of Aglalana Integrated School in Barangay Aglalana, Passi City were beneficiaries of a water system project recently...
STRATEGIC RESPONSE. Reverse isolation is being promoted by the Iloilo provincial government as a frontline strategy in curbing the spread of coronavirus disease, says Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

‘CONSIDER YOURSELF INFECTED’: Defensor wants reverse isolation for people from Iloilo City

ILOILO – Residents of this province who are visiting or are working in Iloilo City should practice reverse isolation upon returning home, according to...
SHABU HAUL. Drug suspects Carline Lunares, Nester Brinosa and Richard Lunares cover their faces with masks while the inventory of suspected shabu seized from them on Sept. 29, 2020 is ongoing in Barangay Handumanan, Bacolod City. PRO-6 PHOTO

P48-M shabu confiscated in 2 months

BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO and DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA ILOILO City – In two months of anti-drug operations, various police units across Western Visayas confiscated 7,121,204...
Barangay Simon Ledesma, Sitio Taytay, Jaro, Iloilo City. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

23 villages on 72-hour ‘surgical lockdown’

ILOILO City – Several areas in 23 barangays were placed under “surgical lockdown” for having at least three confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019...

Iloilo City ‘46.11% drug-cleared’

ILOILO City – Eighty-three villages or 46.11 percent of this city’s 180 barangays have so far been cleared of illegal drugs by the national...
Iloilo City’s Mayor Jerry Treñas demands an apology from Foreign Affairs secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. “Iloilo City is much better than what you think. We all work together,” says Treñas.

JERRY VS TEDDY: Treñas blasts Locsin over ‘pasaway’ tweet

ILOILO City – Without mincing words, Mayor Jerry Treñas fired back at Foreign Affairs secretary Teodoro “Teddy Boy” Locsin Jr., who had accused the...
NOT LOSING HOPE Families of missing Ilonggo seafarers gather at the Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral in Jaro, Iloilo City. Archdiocese of Jaro, Commision on Social Communications/FB

Kin of missing Ilonggo sailors still cling to hope

ILOILO – It’s roughly almost a month since 11 Ilonggo seafarers vanished at sea when a typhoon destroyed their ship in southwestern Japan. But...

San Dionisio mayor passes away

ILOILO – Mayor Larry Villanueva of San Dionisio, Iloilo passed away at 1:45 a.m. yesterday. He was 56. Villanueva, known to have hypertension, succumbed to...
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VIRUS ‘INVADES’ ILOILO CITY HALL: 3 dep’t heads, 27 employees have COVID-19

ILOILO City – The recent three-day widespread testing at city hall has so far yielded 30 individuals – including three department heads – positive...
YOU CAN’T BE TOO CAREFUL A visitor gets instructions from a security guard at the Iloilo City Hall. She is about to pass through a thermal scanner. This is a precautionary measure to ensure that no person with fever – a symptom of coronavirus disease – enters the city hall. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

City gov’t now mulls GCQ for Iloilo?

ILOILO City – The city government may seek that the metro be placed under general community quarantine (GCQ) a mere three days after its...