PHOTO BY IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

DILG: There’s more room for improvement

ILOILO City – There is more room for improvement. The Department of Interior and Local Government’s (DILG) validating team gave the city government a rating of 83 percent...
TRAFFIC VIOLATION. There’s a “No Parking” sign on this part of Timawa Street in Molo, Iloilo City but the drivers of these vehicles are ignoring it. Are there no traffic enforcers in the area to apprehend these violators? IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Over 100 vehicles caught violating traffic code

ILOILO City – Follow traffic rules and regulations. This is the appeal of the Highway Patrol Group (HPG) to drivers here and in Iloilo province. From...
Iloilo Provincial Capitol. Panay News Photo

Capitol mulls task force to end armed conflict

ILOILO – The provincial government will be forming the Provincial Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict (PTF-ELCAC) – a local counterpart of the National...

BJMP guard faces admin raps for construction workers’ death

ILOILO – A jail officer of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Region 6 was slapped with two administrative complaints over the death of...
These sacks of National Food Authority rice are reserved for the Iloilo coastal municipalities of Carles and Concepcion. They are to be distributed in times of disasters and emergencies, according to the Office of Civil Defense in Western Visayas. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Distant Carles, Concepcion get 1K sacks of ‘emergency rice’

ILOILO – Two northernmost coastal municipalities received 1,000 sacks of rice from the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Western Visayas. The rice are to be distributed to families...
Portions of this eatery encroaching the road in Barangay San Nicolas, La Paz, Iloilo City have been demolished. All public roads must be cleared of obstructions, according to President Rodrigo Duterte.IAN PAUL CORDERO

CITY ROADS 95% CLEARED – PSTMO | Clearing will be sustained, vows Treñas

ILOILO City – If the Public Safety and Transportation and Management Office (PSTMO) were to be believed, 95 percent of public roads and sidewalks here have...

WV dengue cases now below epidemic threshold

ILOILO City – Dengue cases in Western Visayas continue to taper, according to the Department of Health (DOH), in fact they are now below the epidemic...
BUSINESS AS USUAL. An Iloilo City passenger jeepney ignores a protester seeking support to Monday’s (Sept. 30, 2019) one-day nationwide transport strike. The Iloilo City government says it was business as usual in this southern metropolis and the strike was hardly felt. The transport holiday was a protest against the phase out of old jeepneys by July 2020. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

‘Where were you during transport strike?’

ILOILO – Police Colonel Roland Vilela, director of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO), has demanded an explanation from two municipal police station chiefs and 50...
Courtesy call of Dr. Roel F. Bermejo (Right), DepEd’s Schools Division Superintendent on Governor Arthur Toto Defensor, Jr. Joining them were ASDS Azucena Falales and Mr. Gilbert Solidum, Chief Education Supervisor. Dr. Bermejo replaced Dr. Mac Miguel Aposin who was transferred to the Province of Aklan. Photo by Ruel Von D. Superio

DepEd-Iloilo has new schools division superintendent

ILOILO – The Department of Education (DepEd) Division of Iloilo has a new schools division superintendent. Dr. Roel F. Bermejo formally assumed his new post yesterday. He...

30 cops linked to drugs

ILOILO City – Thirty police officers under the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) were linked to illegal drugs either as protectors or traffickers. Their names were in...