New director takes over ICPO tomorrow
ILOILO City – Beginning tomorrow, the
Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) will have a new director – Police Colonel Eric
Dampal, former director of the Compostela...
3,948 villages form health emergency response teams
ILOILO City – Of Western Visayas’
4,051 barangays, 3,948 or 97 percent have formed their respective Barangay
Health Emergency Response Teams (BHERTs).
According to Director Ariel Iglesia...
Iloilo provincial civil defense group mulled
ILOILO – The provincial government plans to
form a “provincial civil defense group” that will serve as responders during
emergencies and disasters.
Gov.
Arthur Defensor Jr. wants the...
‘FRUSTRATION LEVEL’: 42K Iloilo learners have reading problem
ILOILO – In this province which has almost half a million
learners, an estimated 42,000 from kindergarten to high school are considered
“frustration level” readers. “They...
No big city events this Feb., March due to COVID-19
ILOILO City – No big crowd-drawing
events will be held in this city this month and in March as a precautionary measure
against the possible spread...
Gambling during wakes okay but…
ILOILO City – Gambling during wakes is
allowed but there should not be too many gambling tables, according to Police
General Archie Francisco Gamboa, director of...
Twin city fires raze 11 houses
ILOILO City – A total of 11 houses in
the City Proper were hit by two separate fires in the morning and afternoon
yesterday.
Fire struck five...
‘WHAT CLOSURE?’: We meet MARINA standards – John B. maritime school
ILOILO City – The closure of John B.
Lacson Foundation Maritime University (JBLFMU), a top maritime school in the
country based here, could displace thousands of...
Traffic alert: Aganan flyover construction starts March
ILOILO City – The construction of a
four-lane flyover in Barangay Aganan, Pavia, Iloilo will start in the first or
second week of March.
The Department of...
Another plea bargain for drug lord’s brod?
ILOILO City – An elder brother of
slain drug lord Richard Prevendido was arrested for the second time in four
years in a buy-bust operation of the...