City gov’t kicks off drive vs noisy mufflers

ILOILO City – The Public Safety and Transportation Management Office (PSTMO) has started enforcing the Anti-Modified Muffler Ordinance, the city government’s answer to complaints against excessive, irritating...

MORE Power: PECO’s P1.1-B investment is gimmickry

ILOILO City – This city’s new electricity distribution utility (DU) More Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) derisively welcomed the announcement of old utility Panay Electric...
Mayor Jerry Treñas. JERRY TREÑAS FACEBOOK

Treñas offers P50-K reward for arrest of esplanade vandals

ILOILO City – Mayor Jerry Treñas is dangling a P50,000 reward to whoever could give information leading to the arrest of vandals who savaged palm trees...
Iloilo Provincial Capitol. Panay News Photo

Iloilo Provincial Population Office best in WV

ILOILO – The Iloilo Provincial Population Office (PPO) will represent Western Visayas in the National Kaunlarang Pantao Award by the Commission on Population and Development (POPCOM). The PPO...
Brigadier General Rene Pamuspusan, director of Police Regional Office 6, pins the Medal of Merit on one of the policemen who implemented successful border control and checkpoint operations in Escalante City, Negros Occidental last month. The “Pagkilala” awarding ceremony was held in Bacolod City on Monday. NEGROS OCCIDENTAL POLICE PROVINCIAL OFFICE

PRO-6 recruiting 100 more new cops

ILOILO City – The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) will be hiring 100 new police officers this last quarter of the year. This 100 is an...

DILG-Iloilo eyes ‘Whole of Nation Approach’ to end local insurgency

ILOILO City – The national government agencies and the local government units here will focus their initiatives towards the “Whole of Nation Approach” in delivering basic...
Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. PNA

P4 billion budget proposed for Iloilo

ILOILO – For 2020, Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. is proposing a P4.080 billion executive budget. The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) already received the proposal. The appropriations committee is...
GOODBYE, OLD UNIFORMS. Police officials shred old, faded and worn out police uniforms in Camp Delgado, headquarters of the Police Regional Office 6 in Iloilo City. The destruction yesterday, Oc. 28, 2019, ensured that the uniforms would not be used by civilians who are prohibited by law from wearing police or military outfits. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Police offices across WV destroy faded uniforms

ILOILO City – City and provincial police offices across Region 6 simultaneously destroyed hundreds of old, faded and worn out police uniforms yesterday morning. The destruction ensured...
Vehicles are constantly “bumper to bumper” and slow on Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. Avenue in Barangay Ungka II, Pavia, Iloilo due to congestion. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

LTO STEPS UP ‘COLORUM’ CRACKDOWN: Heavy penalties await erring operators, drivers

ILOILO City – As All Saints’ Day (Nov. 1) and All Souls’ Day (Nov. 2) draw near, the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in Western Visayas is stepping up its campaign against...
BEGGING FOR HELP.Carrying a baby, a Badjao beggar knocks on the window of a vehicle stuck in traffic in Barangay Ungka, Jaro, Iloilo City. The city government plans to transport back to Sulu all Badjao mendicants. Also called “sea gypsies”, many Badjaos have been displaced by decades of conflict in Mindanao. IAN PAUL CORDERO

Treñas: No livelihood or houses for Badjaos

ILOILO City – The city government won’t be providing livelihood to mendicant Badjaos or giving them houses. The priority for these programs are the poor residents...