On behalf of the Iloilo City government, Mayor Jerry TreƱas (left) receives from MORE Electric and Power Corp. president Roel Castro rapid test kits for COVID-19 and personal protective equipment for healthcare frontliners.

ā€˜POWER OF GIVING’ | MORE donates rapid COVID-19 test kits to Iloilo

ILOILO City – MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) has donated 500 rapid test kits on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to the Iloilo City...
PREVENTIVE MEASURE. Personnel of the Bureau of Fire Protection are setting up a disinfection booth at the transport terminal in Barangay Ungka, Jaro, Iloilo City as an added measure against the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

In Iloilo, virus of discrimination spreads, too

ILOILO City – The increasing number of confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in this city and Iloilo province are making people anxious and extremely...

Iloilo businesses must start planning for post-COVID-19 bounce back now

BY KEN LERONA WHILE Iloilo sets the bar high in terms of addressing the impact of COVID-19 in terms of medical and social response due to the...

Teen mom leaves newborn at hospital toilet ceiling to die

ILOILO – A teenaged lass secretly gave birth in a toilet at the Dr. Ricardo S. Provido Memorial District Hospital in Calinog town, concealed the baby...

Wanted: More PPEs for healthcare workers

ILOILO City – There is a ā€œglobal shortageā€ in surgical facemasks and personal protective equipment due to the high demand spurred by the coronavirus disease 2019...
Do the Health department guidelines on addressing the COVID-19 pandemic include classifying all residents of a town ā€œpersons under monitoringā€ if local disease transmission has been confirmed? Iloilo’s Vice Gov. Christine Garin wants to know. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

ā€˜Brave’ DOH-6 hailed for correcting Guimbal gaffe

ILOILO – For having the courage to right away rectify its blunder in summarily classifying the people of Guimbal town as persons under monitoring (PUMs) for...
Sacks of the National Food Authority palay stored in NFA warehouse. The NFA in Iloilo has purchased 358,000 bags of palay for October this year. NFA-ILOILO

NFA: No rice shortage in Iloilo, Guimaras

ILOILO – There is enough supply of rice in this province and Iloilo City, according to the National Food Authority (NFA), despite the enhanced community quarantine...
GUTTED BY FIRE. Firefighters spray with water a fire-hit house in Barangay Concepcion, Iloilo City over the weekend. According to the Bureau of Fire Protection, most fire occurrences in the city are due to illegal electricity connections. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Fire incidents in Iloilo City drop

ILOILO City – Fire incidents here in the first three months of the year were 43 percent lower than the number of such incidents recorded in...

12 Iloilo suicide cases since January – IPPO

ILOILO – The Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) has recorded 12 cases of suicide since January of this year. Ten of the suicide victims were male, IPPO records further...
Philippine Coast Guard personnel get ready to transport these boxes of family food packs from the Department of Social Welfare and Development to Negros Occidental from the seaport of Iloilo City via a ship of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources. DSWD Region 6 has prepositioned 24,200 family food packs should local government units need more for their constituents adversely affected by the ongoing enhanced community quarantine aimed at containing the spread of the coronavirus disease 2019. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

1.8M Region 6 families to get P6K each

ILOILO City – An estimated 1.8 million families in Western Visayas would each be receiving P6,000 financial assistance from the government’s social amelioration program due to...