Ship’s chief engineer drowns

ILOILO City – The chief engineer of a ship serving the Guimaras-Iloilo route and vice versa died. He fell from the ship docked at the wharf...

PECO EXPRO CASE STAYS IN ILOILO – SC

ILOILO City – The Supreme Court’s (SC) Second Division denied Panay Electric Co.’s (PECO) petition seeking to move outside of this city the expropriation case filed...
Policemen of Zarraga, Iloilo stop motorcycles for inspection. Most of the vehicular accidents last month involved motorcycles, Police Regional Office 6 data showed. Over speeding is the most common cause of road mishaps, according to the Land Transportation Office in Western Visayas. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Deadly December: 5,139 injured, 529 killed in road mishaps

ILOILO City – December 2019 was an injurious and even deadly month, police data on vehicular accidents across Western Visayas showed. A total of 529 people died...

12 fugitives nabbed in a day

ILOILO – The Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) arrested 12 wanted persons in just one day. The arrests were part of the IPPO’s security preparations to make Iloilo...

ICPO: Full steam ahead in Dinagyang security preps

ILOILO City – Thousands of security forces. Gun ban. Mobile phone signal shutdown. The Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) is not leaving anything to chance in...
Dr. Darel Tabuada of the Iloilo Provincial Veterinary Office is pressing the need to bring awareness on the importance of responsible pet ownership in the province. PNA

VACCINATE TO ELIMINATE: Iloilo towns urged to buy own anti-rabies shots

ILOILO – Local government units (LGUs) of the province’s 42 towns including one component city are urged to purchase their own anti-rabies shots so the rabies prevention and control...

Comelec resumes voter registration

ILOILO CITY – Voter registration for the 2022 national and local elections will resume  beginning Jan. 20, announced the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Western Visayas. According to...
Brigadier General Bernard Banac, spokesman of the Philippine National Police, says martial law in Negros Oriental is not yet needed as operations implemented by state forces are still enough to maintain peace in the province. ABS-CBN NEWS

Army’s 3ID ready for any Middle East deployment

ILOILO City – With the unrest in some areas in the Middle East due to the tension between Iran and the United States, the Philippine Army’s...

Ex-Culasi mayor’s ‘killer’ nabbed

ILOILO City – After 33 years of hiding from authorities, one of the suspects tagged in the murder of former Culasi town mayor in Antique...
A member of Humane Society International (HSI) administers the anti-rabies vaccine on a dog as part of their mass vaccination. Dogs are responsible for as much as 99 percent of rabies transmissions to humans, says the World Health Organization. REUTERS FILE PHOTO

NegOcc mulls comprehensive rabies vaccination in 2020

BACOLOD City – The Provincial Veterinary Office (PVO) of Negros Occidental is aiming for a comprehensive dog vaccination to reach an accomplishment rate of 70 to 80...