PCSO general manager Royina Garma

Iloilo STL operators could lose franchises

ILOILO City – The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) may terminate the contracts of its Small Town Lottery (STL) authorised agent corporations (AACs) in this city...

121st ‘Cry of Santa Barbara’ on Nov. 17

ILOILO – During the Philippine Revolution against Spain, the Revolutionary Government of the Visayas was organized and on Nov. 17, 1898 it was formally inaugurated at...

Brgy. San Juan tanod survives assassination try

ILOILO City – A barangay tanod survived an assassination attempt by riding-in-tandem gunmen in Barangay San Juan, Molo district. The 46-year-old Limuel Villaruel sustained four gunshot wounds...
CHRISTMAS IS IN THE AIR. Colorful parols or Christmas lanterns dot Iloilo City’s Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. Avenue in Mandurriao district. These will be officially switched on this Saturday, Nov. 16, a month before the Dec. 16 start of the traditional nine-day misa de gallo or dawn mass leading to Christmas Day. The private sector is taking the lead in sprucing up the city for the holidays. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Private sector fills Iloilo City with Christmas ‘parols’

ILOILO City – Over 1,500 Christmas parols will brighten this city beginning Nov. 16. Inspired by the goal of Mayor Jerry Treñas to “level up” the city,...
Photo by Ian Paul Cordero/PN

Goal: Quicker police action to emergencies

ILOILO City – The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) received 42 brand new motorcycles and five 5.56-millimeter light machine guns from the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) national headquarters. “The...
BRINGING MORE TO LIFE. More Electric and Power Corp. aims to implement a P1.7-billion improvement and rehabilitation of the power distribution system in Iloilo City within five years.

MORE TO JOIN PECO PROPERTY AUCTION

ILOILO City – More Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) has expressed intention to join the city government’s auction of Panay Electric Co.’s (PECO) properties on...

Police stations brace for NPA ‘agaw armas’

ILOILO City – The New People’s Army (NPA) is planning to stage “agaw armas” attacks on police stations, particularly those in remote areas, according to intelligence...
These packs of siomai from Rizal province were seized at the Iloilo Terminal Market. The city government has banned meat and by-products from areas hit by the African swine fever. These siomai packs entered Iloilo City via Roxas City in Capiz province. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Confiscated siomai from Rizal negative for ASF but…

ILOILO City – Laboratory examination of pork siomais from Rizal province confiscated here recently showed these did not have the African swine fever (ASF) virus. The...

Teacher dead, 4 hurt in Concepcion trike mishap

ILOILO – A wayward tricycle hit a public elementary school teacher in Barangay Agnaga, Concepcion, Iloilo. The teacher, 56-year-old Tita Parejao of Puente Bunglas Elementary School, died...
Iloilo District Jail (IDJ) in Barangay Nanga, Pototan town. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Phone signal jammers ‘last resort’ – BJMP

ILOILO – “Last resort.” This was how Superintendent Gilbert Peremne, assistant regional director for administration of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), described his...