STILL SAFE. A vendor at the Iloilo Terminal Market inspects the meat and pork he is selling. They are safe, he insists. The deadly African swine fever virus has reached the country. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Prov’l gov’t not lifting ban on ASF pork anytime soon

Iloilo Ime Sornito -
ILOILO – The provincial government is not keen on lifting the temporary ban it imposed beginning October last year on swine, pork, pork products and byproducts...

Dinagyang ‘rest day’ for students tomorrow

Iloilo
ILOILO City – Tomorrow there will be no classes (preschool, elementary, high school and senior high school levels) in both public and private schools here. This will...
DINAGYANG movers and shakers (from left) Atty. Jobert Peñaflorida, president of the Iloilo Festivals Foundation, Inc.; Iloilo City’s Mayor Jerry Treñas and Cong. Julienne Baronda enjoin everyone to have fun this Dinagyang Festival 2020.

DINAGYANG LEVELS UP | Baronda: Festival portent of greater things for Ilonggos

Iloilo Panay News -
 ILOILO City – “As the city levels up, so does the Dinagyang – indisputably the country’s best tourism festival.” This, in gist, sums up the...
Foreign visitors join the merry-making with the energized warriors of various ati-ati tribes during the first-ever “Dagyang sa Calle Real” on the stretch of Iloilo City’s Calle Real (JM Basa Street) on Saturday. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

‘Dagyang sa Calle Real’ a resounding success – IFFI

Iloilo Ime Sornito -
ILOILO – Yesterday’s pioneering “Dagyang sa Calle Real” was a triumphant kickoff leading to this year’s Dinagyang Festival highlight, dominating the City Proper’s most iconic stretch of...

City sex workers with ‘green cards’ safe – taskforce

Iloilo
ILOILO City – While prostitution is illegal, the city government’s Taskforce on Morals and Values Formation is dealing with this societal problem with utmost practicality. The...

‘Let’s make Dinagyang safe for everyone’

Iloilo
ILOILO City – Follow rules and regulations so that everyone will enjoy the 2020 Dinagyang Festival. This was the appeal of Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO)...
This undated photo taken by the Iloilo Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force catches fishermen using the prohibited ring net in northern Iloilo’s waters. A ring net is a surrounding net the form of which is intermediate hybrid between a purse seine and a lampara net: like on a purse seine, rings at the lower edge of the net allow using a purse line to close it under the fish (pursing) and like on a lampara net, there is a central bunt (with smaller mesh) in which the capture concentrates as the two wings are hauled together and the leadline being shorter than the floatline give somehow a spoon-shape as in lamapara net. ILOILO PROVINCIAL BANTAY DAGAT PHOTO

Capitol seeks to expand Bantay Dagat capabilities

Iloilo Ime Sornito -
ILOILO – The provincial government seeks to improve the capabilities of the Iloilo Provincial Bantay Dagat Task Force to deter illegal fishing which remains a problem particularly...
“The rebels can run but they cannot forever hide that’s why some of them are opting to surrender,” says Lieutenant Colonel Joel Benedict Batara, commander of the Philippine Army’s 61st Infantry Battalion. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

We have momentum in campaign against NPA in Panay – Army

Iloilo
ILOILO – The recent surrender of three rebels in Tubungan town would have a “big impact” in the government’s campaign to end the armed struggle, according...

‘Limpyo Iloilo’ launching on Feb. 21

Iloilo Panay News -
ILOILO – The provincial government is set to launch its province-wide convergence cleanup drive dubbed “Limpyo Iloilo.” The campaign aims for the following: * harmonize and strengthen...

No curfew reprieve for minors this Dinagyang – exec

Iloilo
ILOILO City – Regulation Ordinance No. 2016- 230, which amended Regulation Ordinance No. 2011-676 (Curfew on Minors), set the curfew hours from 10 p.m. to 4...
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