New Lucena SB urged to approve 2019 budget
ILOILO – Mayor Christian Sorongon of the municipality of New Lucena urged the Sangguniang Bayan (SB) to hasten the approval of the town’s 2019...
Human milk bank in Iloilo proposed
ILOILO City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) approved on first reading a proposed ordinance establishing a human milk bank to support women and children...
‘EPAL POLS BACK OFF!’: Dinagyang Foundation shuns ‘political circus’
ILOILO City – Do not ruin the Dinagyang Festival. This is the Iloilo Dinagyang Foundation, Inc.’s (IDFI) message to politicos who plan to shamelessly...
UP student crowned Dinagyang queen
ILOILO City – In this city’s annual search for “timeless beauty (and) exceptional heart”, a 20-year-old lass stood out and won the crown.
Among 15...
‘Join Dinagyang religious sadsad today’
ILOILO City – Dinagyang Festival’s religious sadsad (worship dance) in honor of the Santo Niño (Child Jesus) will be staged this afternoon in front...
Iloilo City mayor blasts Dinagyang ticket racket
ILOILO City – Some Dinagyang Festival complimentary tickets are being illegally sold – and exorbitantly.
Mayor Jose Espinosa III said he was disappointed that these...
SP hearings on 2019 Iloilo budget to end March yet
ILOILO – Due to the slow action of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s (SP) appropriations committee, the provincial government is currently operating on a reenacted 2018...
‘PRACTICE SAFE SEX’: Free condoms, HIV test during Dinagyang
ILOILO City – A nongovernment organization is promoting safe sex this Dinagyang Festival. Today it will start distributing free condoms. Free HIV (human immunodeficiency...
Señor Santo Niño fluvial procession today
ILOILO City – Around a thousand devotees are expected to join this afternoon’s fluvial procession in honor of the Señor Santo Niño.
The procession, one...
4 armed men kill Prevendido ‘hit man’
ILOILO City – Four armed men shot in Barangay Tolarucan, Mina, Iloilo yesterday a man believed to have worked for slain drug lord Richard...