10 farmers’ cooperatives sign loan contracts with prov’l gov’t
ILOILO – Ten farmers’ cooperatives are
availing themselves of loans from the provincial government to help small
farmers reeling from the nose-diving of rice prices that...
BTAO told: Enforce rules vs stubborn jaywalkers
BACOLOD City – The Sanguniang Panlungsod (SP) here wants to
strengthen existing traffic rules and regulations to address traffic woes.
SP member Simplicia Distrito
introduced a...
‘Visit, join cooperative trade fair at capitol’
ILOILO – The Provincial Cooperative
Development Office (PCDO) is encouraging the public, most especially traders,
to visit and join the cooperative trade fair and exhibit at...
‘PLAZAS BEYOND COMMERCE OF MEN’ No more trade fairs beginning 2020
ILOILO City – Mayor Jerry Treñas is
maintaining the ban on ukay-ukay from
the city’s district plazas. But he is taking the policy to a whole...
Diversion Road elevators to finally operate continuously?
ILOILO City – The
city government will hire a total of six personnel to operate the two elevators
of the overpass on the Sen. Benigno Aquino...
City gov’t orders 90-day ban on meat from ASF-hit areas
ILOILO City – Mayor Jerry Treñas
ordered a 90-day temporarily ban on live pigs, hog carcasses, pork, and pork
products and by-products from and/or processed in...
56 jail personnel hurdle drug test
ILOILO City – Fifty-six personnel of
the Iloilo City District Jail in Barangay Ungka, Jaro district passed a
“surprise” drug test.
The unscheduled test was conducted on
Oct....
‘IT’S NOT THAT SIMPLE’ IPPO claim on pro-NPA local execs met with skepticism
ILOILO – Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. is not about to swallow hook,
line and sinker the Iloilo Police Provincial Office’s (IPPO) claim that five mayors,
two...
Repeal of on-road parking ordinance sought but…
ILOILO City – “Sweeping.”
This was how Councilor Rommel Duron,
chairperson of the Committee on Transportation in the Sangguniang Panlungsod,
described the proposal of the Public Safety...
Retired teacher robbed, killed
ILOILO City – A 90-year-old retired
teacher living alone was robbed and killed in Barangay Tacas, Jaro district.
Rosa Argel was found dead in her
kitchen by...