Over 15K seniors to receive social pension
ILOILO City – The social pension of 15,333 senior citizens here for the first and second quarters of this year (January-March; April-June) would finally...
OFW ‘sweeper flights’ send authorities scrambling
ILOILO City – “Nag-scramble.”
This was how Director Ariel Iglesia of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Region 6 described local authorities upon...
Duterte urged to include Iloilo City in SAP Part 2
ILOILO City – Mayor Jerry Treñas wrote President Rodrigo Duterte a letter appealing that this city be included in the second tranche of the...
CONGRESS URGED TO PROBE MORE: 13-hour brownout unacceptable amid pandemic – solons
ILOILO City – Brownouts bugging power consumers here following MORE Electric and Power Corp.’s (MORE Power) takeover of Panay Electric Co.’s (PECO) power distribution...
WV ready for influx of more overseas workers?
ILOILO City – “I think everything is in place already.”
This was what the spokesperson of Western Visayas’ interagency task force on coronavirus disease 2019...
1 killed, 3 others hurt in drunk driving crash
ILOILO City – A healthcare worker died while three others were injured late Sunday night in Mandurriao district. A drunk Indian national hit them...
Suspected Prevendido drug group member shot dead
ILOILO City – A suspected member of the Prevendido drug group was shot to death by motorcycle-riding gunmen on May 23 in Barangay Balabago,...
‘BRING BACK CHECKPOINTS’ | Defensor to IPPO: Pandemic not over yet
ILOILO – The Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) should continue operating checkpoints across the province, according to Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr.
“May ginabantayan pa kita,”...
Physical distancing ‘new normal’ in churches
ILOILO City – At the Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral yesterday, the Sunday Mass was quite different.
Each pew, which could normally seat between eight to 10...
2 junior police officials sacked for subordinates’ liquor ban violation
ILOILO – The superiors of two policemen caught violating the quarantine-related liquor ban were relieved from their posts, too.
Police Lieutenant Colonel George Caño was the...