Mother of ‘Ursula’ victim says daughter ‘had premonition’ of killer flood

BY IAN PAUL CORDERO AND RUBY SILUBRICO ILOILO City – Death premonitions: Do they happen? Distraught Andrea De Asis – who lost four family members during Typhoon...

Passi City says no to noisy mufflers

ILOILO City – Noisy tailpipes – those intentionally made or altered to emit a loud sound – are not allowed on motor vehicles, both private and...

Big-time drug suspect falls in Jaro drug sting

ILOILO City – He was tagged as a “high-value” drug suspect. The 33-year-old resident Ramil Tijam was nabbed in a drug sting operation in Barangay San...
Police Lieutenant Colonel Joem Malong, spokesperson of the PRO-6.

DRUG WAR IN REGION 6: 105 HIGH-VALUE TARGETS THIS 2020

ILOILO City – This 2020 the Philippine National Police in Western Visayas aims to get the 105 remaining high-value drug targets it failed to neutralize in...
THE DOCTOR IS IN. Health secretary Francisco Duque checks a boy with dengue and the latter’s mother at the West Visayas State University Medical Center in Jaro, Iloilo City. They are from Passi City in Iloilo province but the Don Valerio Palmares Sr. Memorial District Hospital is already teeming with patients. The Department of Health has recorded 18,834 dengue cases in the region since January this year. IME SORNITO/PN

Dengue cases now below alert threshold

ILOILO – With dengue cases dropping, Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. plans to lift the dengue outbreak declaration he made in July last year. Data from the provincial...
A vendor tends to her rice stall at the Paco Market in Paco, Manila. ALAMY

Price freeze holds in 5 typhoon-hit towns

ILOILO – Retailers are respecting the prize freeze in five northern Iloilo municipalities that declared a state of emergency due to the devastation caused by typhoon...
PAN-AY RIVER BURSTS. This aerial shot of Pontevedra, Capiz shows the Pan-ay River overflowing, its murky water engulfing residential and commercial areas of the municipality, and turning vast rice fields into instant rivers as well. Other towns in Capiz also reported flooding, prompting the provincial government to declare a state of calamity. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

‘Ursula’ damage in Iloilo seen to exceed P104M

ILOILO – Damage that this province incurred from typhoon “Ursula” is expected to exceed P104 million. Four towns have so far submitted reports to the Provincial Disaster...

‘PECO-MORE ROW TOO POLITICIZED’ Judge: Expropriation case may be moved outside Iloilo

ILOILO City – The expropriation case of MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) against Panay Electric Co. (PECO) has become too politicized, according to Judge...
People from Guimaras disembark from a motorboat at the Iloilo Ferry Terminal-Parola in Iloilo City. A proposed bridge connecting Panay (Iloilo City) and Guimaras, if realized, would be another travel option when crossing the Iloilo Strait to go to any point in the nearby island province from Iloilo City. It could curb if not totally eliminate fatal sea mishaps. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Will Panay-Guimaras bridge push through this year? Guimaras to seek Duterte assurance

ILOILO City – Will President Rodrigo Duterte’s plan to link the islands of Panay and Guimaras with a bridge push through? The provincial government of Guimaras wants...

2 recovered firearm slugs puzzle policemen

ILOILO – Two firearm projectiles or slugs were separately recovered on Jan. 1 in Barangay Poblacion, Ajuy and Barangay Lanag, Santa Barbara, making policemen wonder if...