610 policemen take ‘surprise’ drug test

ILOILO City – A total of 610 police personnel of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) were subjected to an unscheduled drug test. The test...

SWIFT JUSTICE

ILOILO City – “A sweet and swift justice.” This was how the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) described the death sentence meted by a...

PRO-6: Holy Week peaceful despite shootings

ILOILO City – Holy Week in Western Visayas was relatively peaceful, according to the Police Regional Office (PRO-6), even if a man died while...

Cop ‘moonlights’ as shabu peddler

ILOILO City – A police officer assigned at the Regional Headquarters Support Group of the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) in Camp Delgado confessed to...

Is P2M not enough for Panaynon’s Aliwan trip?

ILOILO City – The city government has allotted P2 million for Dinagyang Festival’s participation in this year’s Aliwan Fiesta in Metro Manila – a...

30 high-value PDEA drug targets nabbed

ILOILO City – Since January, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Region 6 managed to arrest 30 high-value targets (HVTs). They were part of...

‘Service water must be free, clean, safe’

ILOILO City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) has approved on final reading an ordinance that requires foodservice establishments to serve free potable water to...

COA lifts disallowance on Iloilo capitol’s 2013 PEI

ILOILO – The Commission on Audit (COA) has lifted the Notice of Disallowance (ND) it issued on the 2013 Productivity Enhancement Incentive (PEI) amounting...

300 Region 6 villages may be declared ‘drug-cleared’

ILOILO City – An estimated 300 barangays in Western Visayas may be declared “drug-cleared” this first quarter of 2018, according to the Philippine Drug...

Capitol produces summa, magna, cum laude grads

ILOILO – Seventy-nine college scholars of the provincial government are graduating this month. One of them would be graduating with the highest honor – summa...