Metro Pacific Iloilo Water closes office for disinfection

ILOILO City – Metro Pacific Iloilo Water (MPIW) temporarily closed its office at Bonifacio Drive in this city yesterday until July 19 after one...

No more COVID-19 cases at BJMP-6

ILOILO City – The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Region 6 is now free from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), according to Jail...
“Public health and the economy are interlinked. If cases of coronavirus disease 2019 continue to rise, people will lose confidence in the economy. There would be fewer investments,” says Dr. Maria Socorro Colmenares-Quiñon of the Provincial Health Office. IME SORNITO/PN

HEALTH WORKERS SOUND ALARM: LSIs, OFWs could overwhelm public health system

ILOILO – A deluge of returning locally stranded individuals (LSIs) and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) could overwhelm the province’s public health system, warned healthcare...
League of Municipalities of the Philippines-Iloilo Chapter will extend financial aid to communities in Mindanao that were heavily hit by the series of earthquakes last month, says its president Mayor Mediatrix “Trexie” Fernandez of San Enrique. ANGAT BAYI

LGUs buck return of stranded Ilonggos

ILOILO – The League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) – Iloilo Chapter appealed to the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging...

PRO-6 has 10 high-value drug targets

ILOILO City – Policemen are hunting down 10 high-value illegal drug suspects in Western Visayas despite the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, according to...

Housing project locked down; resident positive for COVID-19

ILOILO – The municipality of Batad locked down for five days a housing project after a resident tested positive for coronavirus disease  2019 (COVID-19). Mayor...
Panay Electric Co., the sole power distributor in Iloilo City for the past 95 years, has vowed exhaust all legal remedies to protect its assets. Though its franchise expired in January this year, it has been allowed to operate by the Energy Regulatory Commission via a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. PECO’s office is on General Luna Street, Iloilo City. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Court junks PECO’s motion for reconsideration anew

ILOILO City – A regional trial court (RTC) here has dismissed the motion for reconsideration filed by Panay Electric Co. (PECO) on the court’s...

WV COVID-19 CASES NEARING 600 MARK | 91 new infections highest single day jump

ILOILO City – Confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in Western Visayas are now a few rungs of hitting the 600 mark after the...

Bingawan under ECQ after logging 6 new COVID cases

ILOILO – Since midnight of July 13, the municipality of Bingawan was placed under enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) after six staff of the town’s...

Iloilo City likely to be under GCQ by July 16 – Treñas

BY IME SORNITO AND ADRIAN STEWART CO ILOILO City – This southern city may likely return to general community quarantine (GCQ) from modified GCQ after...