‘YOU LIE, WE DIE’ | Ordinance punishes dishonest patients

ILOILO – A new provincial ordinance penalizes patients lying about their true health condition during a state of public health emergency or pandemic such as the...
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No new COVID-19 cases in WV for two days

ILOILO City – Western Visayas recorded no new positive cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for two days in a row. The region’s positive cases remained at 40...

WV social amelioration: P5B released to 80 LGUs

ILOILO City – Eighty local government units (LGUs) in Western Visayas may start releasing today cash assistance to their constituents economically displaced by the ongoing coronavirus disease...

OWWA denies violating COVID protocols

ILOILO City – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) denied violating the protocols set by the national government’s Inter-Agency Task Forcefor the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID)...
University of the Philippines (UP) Visayas - Miagao campus. YELP

No alcohol? UP scientists come to the rescue

ILOILO City – The local supply of alcohol for sanitation has dwindled due to high demand triggered by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Recognizing the problem, chemists...
The town of Toboso in Negros Occidental recently declared members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing New People’s Army as persona non-grata. Lieutenant Colonel Emelito Thaddeus Logan, commanding officer of 79th Infantry Battalion, said terrorist group destroy peace and development of the communities in tshe province. PH.VLTRENDS.COM

Army, rebels accuse one another of violating truce

ILOILO City – Following the April 7 clash between government troops and rebels in Sitio Aguilan, Barangay Panuran, Lambunao, Iloilo the Philippine Army’s 3rd infantry Division (3ID) and...
The Iloilo City government represented by Executive Assistant Francis Cruz (second from left) accepts from MORE Electric and Power Corp. president Roel Z. Castro (extreme left) a donation of 30 sacks of rice. MORE Power previously donated facemasks, alcohol, sanitizers, and food packs to frontliners in Iloilo City battling the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019.

‘Rice for the Ilonggos’

ILOILO City – MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) donated rice to the Ilonggos. In a turnover ceremony at the Relief Operation Center in Jaro...
A personnel of the Pavia Emergency Responders check the body temperature of motorists using a thermal scanner at a checkpoint in Barangay Ungka, Pavia, Iloilo last night. Iloilo province is under a “general community quarantine” against the novel coronavirus. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Pavia extends quarantine up to April 30

ILOILO – The local government of Pavia has extended its enhanced community quarantine up to April 30. The quarantine is supposed to end today. “The number of...
“On Saturdays and Sundays we will no longer allow anyone to go out of their houses except to buy medicines,” says Mayor Jerry Treñas of Iloilo City. “We have to keep the city sealed from the virus,” he adds. His goal is to open businesses starting May 1, even if only gradually. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

WEEKEND LOCKDOWN: No one should leave homes on Sat., Sun.

ILOILO City – During the remaining Saturdays and Sundays of this month, only a handful of people should be seen leaving their houses – those exempted...
Authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 use thermal imaging cameras to detect travelers with signs of coronavirus. This is part of the tightened medical quarantine protocols to prevent the virus' entry into the country. CNN PH

Return of 100 stranded Ilonggo OFWs aborted

ILOILO – This morning’s scheduled return here of some 100 Ilonggo overseas workers stranded in Metro Manila won’t push through. Their health status – whether positive or not...