Iloilo City’s Public Safety and Transportation Management Office apprehended 88 vehicles on the first day of its campaign against illegal parking on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2022. PHOTO COURTESY OF MAYOR JERRY P. TREÑAS FB PAGE

Specialized team to run after illegal parkers in 5 districts

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BY IME SORNITO ILOILO – The provincial government is forming a specialized composite enforcement team to clear illegally parked vehicles and strengthen road-safety enforcement along...
INCLUSION CHAMPION. New Lucena, Iloilo’s Mayor Carl Vincent Mondejar and the municipality’s delegation receive a P50,000 cash prize and plaque after New Lucena was named Iloilo province’s Most Persons with Disabilities-Friendly Municipality/City during an awarding ceremony at Casa Real de Iloilo. The town bested nine other municipalities for its disability-inclusive policies, programs, services and facilities. IME SORNITO/PN

New Lucena tops LGU search for disability-friendly services, facilities

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ILOILO – New Lucena has emerged as Iloilo province’s model for disability-inclusive governance, besting nine other municipalities in a province-wide assessment of programs, policies,...

Aid programs hinge on accurate data, join WV poverty survey

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ILOILO City – Households across Western Visayas are being urged to participate truthfully and fully in the 2027 Community-Based Monitoring System (CBMS), as incomplete...
Harold Alfred Marshall (center), regional director of the Commission on Population and Development Region 6, attributes the high rates of youth smoking and drinking in the region to peer pressure, family influence, and easy access to alcohol and cigarettes. “If wala ka gapanigarilyo, tawgon ka nga waay gapakisama, you are ‘uncool’… And that is not only limited to smoking, but also drinking, and even perhaps engaging sa mga risqué sexual behaviors,” Marshall adds. COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REGION 6 PHOTO

WV YOUTH SMOKING 2ND HIGHEST IN PH; Study flags widespread youth drinking, too

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ILOILO City — Western Visayas has emerged as one of the country’s hotspots for youth smoking and drinking, with the latest Young Adult Fertility...

Councilors League nat’l assembly record turnout overwhelms Iloilo City hotels

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ILOILO City — A record-breaking turnout at the Philippine Councilors League (PCL) National Assembly here overwhelmed Iloilo City’s accommodation capacity, forcing organizers to secure...
Personnel of the Office of the Greening and Beautification Division clean the Iloilo River Esplanade 11 in Barangay Progreso, Lapuz, Iloilo City on Tuesday, July 28. The city government ordered the cleanup and moved to install closed-circuit television cameras, deploy Green Guards and intensify patrols after a viral video showed an alleged indecent act in the area. OFFICE OF THE GREENING AND BEAUTIFICATION DIVISION/FB PHOTO

Teens receive psychosocial care after viral Esplanade sex video

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ILOILO City – Authorities have shifted their focus from public outrage to the rehabilitation and mental health of two teenaged students involved in a...
Photo courtesy of PNP Iloilo Police Provincial Office

Iloilo prov’l police seizes 10 trucks in week-long illegal quarry drive; Highest number of...

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ILOILO — The Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) intensified its campaign against illegal quarrying, impounding 10 trucks in just one week of province-wide enforcement...

Former Iloilo board member will oversee 5th District projects as guv’s executive aide

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ILOILO – Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. has appointed former Provincial Board member Carol V. Espinosa-Diaz as his third executive assistant drawn from the ranks...
A sample of the Philippine National ID, now a valid proof of identity.

PSA presses wider use of Nat’l ID; 4.4M Western Visayans enrolled

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ILOILO City — The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in Western Visayas is now shifting its priority from simply registering residents for the National ID...
TRAFFIC SQUEEZE. Vehicles crowd a busy General Luna Street in Iloilo City as the city government intensifies traffic enforcement and road-clearing operations. Authorities apprehended 23,521 traffic violators and conducted 962 operations during the first year of Mayor Raisa Treñas’ administration. PN

23,521 Iloilo City traffic violators caught in 962 enforcement, road-clearing operations

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ILOILO City – The campaign to restore order on city streets resulted in the apprehension of 23,521 traffic violators in 962 enforcement and road-clearing...
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