todd masonis
Z-Library Project
28.5 C
Iloilo City
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Home News Page 2733

News

Panay News, the biggest daily newspaper in Western Visayas brings you breaking news on environment, nation, Metro Bacolod, Iloilo, and top stories from around the world.

Gun, bullets send drunken man to jail

BACOLOD City – A drunken man was nabbed for illegal possession of firearm in Barangay Caduhaan, Cadiz City, Negros Occidental.  A .9mm-caliber pistol with a magazine, eight...

27 grams of ‘shabu’ seized

BACOLOD City – Suspected shabu weighing about 27 grams valued at around P405,000 was seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay 35. The 36-year-old “high-value” suspect Joselito Detoyato...
Panay Electric Co., the sole power distributor in Iloilo City for the past 95 years, has vowed exhaust all legal remedies to protect its assets. Though its franchise expired in January this year, it has been allowed to operate by the Energy Regulatory Commission via a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. PECO’s office is on General Luna Street, Iloilo City. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

PECO counters data on city pole fires

ILOILO City – In its “Post Fire Comprehensive Report” submitted to the Energy Regulation Commission (ERC), Panay Electric Co. (PECO) insisted that four out of five...
PRO-6 spokesperson Police Lieutenant Colonel Joem Malong

Easy money lures students to traffic illegal drugs – PRO-6

ILOILO City – The promise of easy money makes drug trafficking attractive even to students, according to the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6). Four students were arrested...

Bacolod dads buck removal of median trees

BACOLOD City – Trees planted in the median strips of major arterial roads here planned to be cut down will be spared. This after the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s...
Vice President Leni Robredo is off to a good start one week into leading the government's crackdown on illegal drugs, Presidential Spokesman Salvador Panelo says. PCOO

Robredo doing ‘good’ so far as anti-drug czar – Panelo

MANILA – Vice President Leni Robredo is doing ‘good’ so far in her first week leading the government's crackdown on illegal drugs, Presidential Spokesman...
A pole of Panay Electric Co. dangerously leans in Jaro, Iloilo City. A passing container van hit a dangling cable on Wednesday night, Nov. 13, 2019, inadvertently dragging the pole, according to witnesses. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

PECO INACTION HIT: Half of Iloilo City fires since 2014 pole fires – BFP

ILOILO City – More than half or 1,464 cases out of 2,887 incidents of fire in this city since January 2014 were pole fires, the Bureau...
PCSO general manager Royina Garma

Iloilo STL operators could lose franchises

ILOILO City – The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) may terminate the contracts of its Small Town Lottery (STL) authorised agent corporations (AACs) in this city...

Probe pressed on ambush of jail officer

BACOLOD City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod here has ordered an investigation on the killing of jail officer Jayvee Jason Vargas who was shot to death in...

121st ‘Cry of Santa Barbara’ on Nov. 17

ILOILO – During the Philippine Revolution against Spain, the Revolutionary Government of the Visayas was organized and on Nov. 17, 1898 it was formally inaugurated at...