LTFRB-6 office on 4-day lockdown today; employee contracts virus

ILOILO City – The regional office of the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) in Barangay Quintin Salas, Jaro district begins a four-day...

Dingle ‘sitio’ locked down after NIA engineer contracts ‘corona’

ILOILO – A sitio (hamlet) in Dingle town was locked down after a resident – an engineer of the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Region...

NO MORE SPACE FOR COVID CASES: 3 city hospitals reach ‘full capacity’

ILOILO City – Three hospitals here have temporarily stopped accepting cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Rooms or beds allotted for these cases have...
NEGLECTED ‘MODERN HEROES’. What’s next for these repatriated Ilonggo overseas workers – our so-called “bagong bayani” – that the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration dumped at the Iloilo City Freedom Grandstand after fetching them at the Iloilo Airport on Aug. 23, 2020? The agency failed to coordinate with the Iloilo City government about the repatriation and the needed quarantine facilities, according to Mayor Jerry Treñas. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

OFWs ‘rescued’ from unprepared OWWA

ILOILO City – One hundred fifty-six overseas Ilonggo workers returned here before dawn yesterday. But because the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) did not coordinate...

Virus-positive employee shuts down capitol

ILOILO – A male employee of the Bids and Award Committee (BAC) at the fifth floor of the Iloilo provincial capitol tested positive for...

27 cops exposed to 2 colleagues with COVID

ILOILO City – Twenty-seven policemen are quarantining while waiting for the results of their coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests. They were exposed to two colleagues...

Phil. Army Soldiers guard locked down barangays

ILOILO City – Philippine Army soldiers have been tapped to help enforce the lockdown in  barangays ordered to be under such due to rising...

COVID-positive Estancia resident dies

ILOILO – A 68-year-old male resident of Barangay Poblacion Zone 2, Estancia town died on Aug. 21 at the Western Visayas Medical Center in Mandurriao,...

TOWN UNDER SEIGE: Dumangas tracks virus spread in 18 brgys

ILOILO – Five residents of the municipality of Dumangas, Iloilo who tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) got the infection through local transmission. Alarmed...
ARNOLD ALMACEN/CMO “I think it is about time that he gives up his position,” says Mayor Jerry Treñas of Iloilo City.

Molo lad slay alarms mayor: Enforce GCQ rules, city villages urged

ILOILO City – Thursday’s brazen killing of a minor in broad daylight alarmed Mayor Jerry Treñas. Incidents like this won’t happen, he said, if barangay...