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Pickup driver killed in road crash

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City – A head-on collision with a six-wheeler truck cost the life of a pickup driver in Barangay Calaboa, Leganes, Iloilo...

Drilon challenged to a public debate

BY PRINCE GOLEZ Manila Reporter MANILA – Iloilo City’s Sen. Franklin Drilon has been challenged to a debate by ex-congressman Augusto “Boboy” Syjuco Jr. (2nd District,...

Number of Korean students dwindling

BY HERBERT VEGO ILOILO City – From as high as 1,400, South Koreans studying here and neighboring towns have dwindled to around 800. This was the...

Malones prays for favorable SP ruling

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City – Maasin, Iloilo’s Mayor Mariano Malones is appealing the Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s (SP) Committee of the Whole ruling finding him guilty...

Jail ‘contrabands’ crushed

BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO ILOILO City – Fifty-two cellular phones and chargers, knives and other contrabands seized from various detention cells of the Bureau of...

DPWH: What overprice? Convention center bidding not rigged – Tayao

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City – There is no overpricing in the Iloilo Convention Center, said Director Edilberto Tayao of the Department of Public Works...

‘Anti-drug campaign no threat to tourism’

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City – “Illegal drug issues do not affect the volume of tourist arrivals in Western Visayas.” So said Department of Tourism (DOT) Region...

Hollow blocks factory worker runs amuck

BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO ILOILO City – A hollow blocks factory worker hacked to death a colleague and wounded another in Barangay Poblacion, Concepcion, Iloilo. Julie...

Drilon: What P1-billion DAP?

BY PRINCE GOLEZ Manila Reporter MANILA – Iloilo City’s Sen. Franklin Drilon dismissed as a “blatant lie” the report accusing him of receiving P1 billion in...

Army targets 93 rebel-infested brgys

BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO ILOILO City – The Philippine Army’s 301st Brigade aims to clear 93 rebel-infested barangays in the provinces of Iloilo and Capiz. “We...