WV records major slide in mortality; deaths fall by 13% in 2024 — CPD

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ILOILO — Western Visayas posted a significant decline in mortality in 2024, with registered deaths dropping by 13 percent — a development that health...
CLEAR EVIDENCE. Photo shows portions of Buntatala Creek evidently reclaimed to give way for the construction of Access Road Section 1 (Bike Lane) Project.

‘RESTORE THE CREEK’: Iloilo City Gov’t wants DPWH-ICDEO to undo illegal Buntatala reclamation

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ILOILO City – The Department of Public Works and Highways – Iloilo City District Engineering Office (DPWH–ICDEO) must reverse the illegal reclamation of the...

EMPOWERED, YET AT RISK: As WV women gain record-high reproductive decision-making power, teen pregnancies...

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BY NELJOY GALIGAO ILOILO City – Western Visayas has reached one of its highest-ever levels of women’s reproductive empowerment, with 83.8% of women aged 15–49...
The Jalaur River is a source of irrigation, water supply for domestic use in Iloilo City and its adjacent municipalities, and generates up to 6.6 megawatts electric power supply. DENR

DENR flags 12 ‘critical’ watersheds in Western Visayas

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ILOILO City – Alarmed by accelerating forest loss and the rising risks of destructive flooding, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has...

Iloilo City’s P4.5-billion budget for 2026 OK’d; social services get biggest allocation boost

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ILOILO City – Ilonggos will see one of the city’s most heavily social service-focused budgets in recent years after the Sangguniang Panlungsod approved the...

Iloilo capitol workforce to get P30,000 CNA bonus

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ILOILO – More than 2,000 regular employees of the Iloilo provincial government are set to receive a P30,000 Collective Negotiation Agreement (CNA) Incentive after...
“Nakabutang gid sa DepEd Order 52 series of 2022, nga ‘No learner shall be excluded from joining the Christmas celebration by reason of their failure to give the voluntary contribution or absence of a prepared gift,’” says Department of Education Region 6 information officer Hernani Escullar Jr.

DepEd: No child should be barred from Christmas parties over contributions

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ILOILO — The Department of Education (DepEd) in Western Visayas has tightened its enforcement of the no-collection and non-compulsory participation rules for school Christmas...
The grand staircase entrance of the modernized Jaro Public Market welcomes vendors and shoppers into one of Iloilo City’s most extensively upgraded public market facility to date. AJ PALCULLO/PN

Jaro Big Market expands capacity to over 840 vendors

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ILOILO City – A modernized Jaro Big Market reopened on Wednesday, December 10, becoming a fully rebuilt two-level facility now capable of accommodating more...
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MENTAL BREAKDOWN: WVMC reopens psychiatric hotline as distressed Ilonggo seldom reach out for help

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ILOILO City – More Ilonggos are landing in the hospital for psychiatric crises, but almost none are picking up the phone to ask for...
Commission on Population and Development’s Region 6 director Harold Alfred Marshall (right) explains the sharp 24.7% drop in marriages in Western Visayas, citing economic pressures and changing priorities among young adults. At left is CPD-6’s Population Program Officer Rolio Vincent Laguna. NELJOY GALIGAO/PN

WHO’S AFRAID OF GETTING HITCHED? Cultural shift, economic pressure drive nearly 25% drop in...

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ILOILO — Registered marriages in Western Visayas fell to their lowest level in years, plunging by 24.7 percent in 2024 — a drop that...
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