COST-OF-LIVING SQUEEZE: WV inflation at 8.4% 4th-highest in PH as transport, utility, health costs...
ILOILO City — Western Visayans are feeling an increasingly painful squeeze on their household budgets as the region’s inflation rate soared to 8.4 percent...
Senior citizen arrested after alleged NegOcc capitol threat
BACOLOD CITY — A 78-year-old man was arrested by the Police Regional Office-Negros Island Region (PRO-NIR) personnel on September 10 on a warrant for...
Sandiganbayan orders Romualdez jail transfer
MANILA — Former House Speaker Martin Romualdez is set to be placed under the custody of the Quezon City Jail after the Sandiganbayan ordered...
Volcano eruption leaves 150,000 passengers stranded in Indonesia
JAKARTA – More than 150,000 passengers have been left stranded after a volcanic eruption forced Indonesian authorities to temporarily suspend operations at eight airports.
Jakarta's...
WANTED: SIDE HUSTLE; WV jobless rate climbs to 6.3%; underemployment shoots to 31.8%
ILOILO City – Nearly one in every three employed Western Visayans wanted additional work or longer working hours, exposing a deepening job-quality problem even...
Pavia conducts high-impact collapsed structure search and rescue drill
ILOILO — To bolster local disaster response, the Municipality of Pavia executed a high-intensity Collapsed Structure Search and Rescue (CSSR) Simulation Exercise on...
Meta team eyed for safe Iloilo youth social media drive
ILOILO City – The National Youth Commission (NYC) is planning to bring a Meta team to Iloilo this year for a joint initiative with...
ER delays put lives at risk; City Council probes hospital-ICER gaps, eyes 100-meter emergency...
ILOILO City – Allegations that some hospital emergency rooms refuse or delay patients endorsed by the Iloilo City Emergency Response (ICER) have triggered a...
Corruption watchdog warns vs selective justice, special treatment, deals protecting officials
ILOILO City – The widening crackdown on alleged corruption must not end with the prosecution of a few political heavyweights but should follow the...
Bacolod moves to institutionalize ‘CLAYGO’ policy
BACOLOD CITY — The City Government of Bacolod is moving to institutionalize the Clean As You Go (CLAYGO) principle in public places and private...