Iloilo

A newly identified drug pushing suspect was arrested yesterday in Barangay Our Lady of Fatima, Jaro district. Police seized P150,000 worth of shabu.

The 2017 World President of Junior Chamber International (JCI), a non-profit international non-governmental organization, visited this city on Saturday.

Militant labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) Panay slammed Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Region 6 Wage Order No. 23 which increased the daily minimum wage in Panay and Guimaras islands and Negros Occidental of commercial, industrial and agricultural plantation workers by P25, and agricultural non-plantation workers by P15.

After four years of implementation, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Water Security for Resilient Economic Growth and Stability (Be Secure) Project will come to end on July 2, 2017.

The opportunity may be lost for the poor fish vendors of Dumangas town to benefit from the proposed Pasalubong Center in Sitio Pantalan, Barangay Dacutan due to the continuing inaction among local officials of the town.

A 25-year-old man posing as an operative of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) was arrested in Barangay Bago Chiquito, Panay, Capiz.

This city will be at the forefront of World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Region’s ProLEAD Module 2 workshop under the Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance.

The Technical Institute of Iloilo City (TIIC), Bo. Obrero Campus is now accepting enrollees for its seven technical-vocational (tech-voc) courses, with no tuition fee.

Councilor Joshua Alim proposed an ordinance requiring the city’s sole power distributor, Panay Electric Company (PECO), to establish a “meter reading card system.”

Teams from the Iloilo Police Provincial Office’s (IPPO) Special Weapons and Tactics and Public Safety Company were deployed to areas that rebels may likely attack, including sugar centrals.