NEARLY A THOUSAND LSIs RETURN TO WV: Rise in region’s COVID-19 cases feared
ILOILO City – Not 446 as previously announced but 991 locally stranded individual (LSIs) returned to Western Visayas yesterday from Metro Manila ferried by...
Guimaras loses COVID-free status, records first local case
ILOILO City – The island province of Guimaras has recorded its first indigenous coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) case four months since it was placed...
Officials defend Drilon vs SONA attack
ILOILO City – President Rodrigo Duterte should not have used his State of the Nation Address (SONA) to attack Ilonggo Senate minority leader Franklin...
PRO-6, PDEA back death penalty revival
ILOILO City – The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Western Visayas support the proposed re-imposition of the...
Explain surge in power bills, Eleco 1, 2, 3 told
ILOILO – The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) wants Iloilo Electric Cooperative (Ileco) 1, 2 and 3 to explain the sharp increase in consumers’ power bills,...
Bingawan ECQ lifted
ILOILO City – The enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Bingawan, Iloilo has been lifted yesterday.
It is now under modified general community quarantine (MGCQ) like...
Cabbie, passengers busted for ‘shabu’
BY CHRIST JOHN GAMARCHA
ILOILO City – A taxi driver and his two passengers were arrested in a joint buy-bust operation of the police and...
Jail visitors must follow health safety protocols
ILOILO City – Jail visitors must comply with all the health safety protocols or they would be refused entry, according to Jail Superintendent Gilbert...
Bo. Obrero ‘surgical’ quarantine expanded: 200 houses on COVID-19 lockdown
ILOILO City – Mayor Jerry Treñas not only extended the 72-hour “surgical extreme” enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Barangay Bo. Obrero in Lapuz district,...
PRO-6: SONA protests end peacefully
ILOILO City – The anti-administration protests staged across Western Visayas were “generally peaceful” as President Rodrigo Duterte delivered his fifth State of the Nation...