‘HARD-HEADED’40 brgy chiefs defy PDEA

BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO ILOILO City – One hundred and forty barangay captains here have submitted lists of drug personalities in their barangays while 40...

Who’s out to discredit Drilon?

BY PRINCE GOLEZ Manila Reporter MANILA – If Iloilo City’s Sen. Franklin Drilon were to be believed, certain quarters are trying to implicate him in the...

Aquino to switch on Negros solar farm today

BY PRINCE GOLEZ Manila Reporter SAN CARLOS City – President Benigno Aquino III is inaugurating today the 22-megawatt solar power plant of the San Carlos Solar...

Rice retailers decry ‘harassment’

By Glenda SOLOGASTOA SAN ENRIQUE, Iloilo – The Alyansa Ng Industriya ng Bigas (ANIB)-Iloilo condemned alleged acts of harassment directed against their members / rice...

DTI monitors prices of school supplies

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Region 6 has started monitoring the prices of school supplies. The school...

‘Balut’ vendor murdered 

BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO CALINOG, Iloilo – A 21-year-old balut vendor was found dead yesterday in a grassy area of Brgy. Canabajan, this municipality. The police said Rommel...

Militants renew call: ‘Justice for Capalla!’

BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO OTON, Iloilo – Justice has not been served yet to the family of slain businessman Romeo Capalla, a former rebel. This was...

Miriam protests inclusion in ‘pork’ list

BY PRINCE GOLEZ Manila Reporter MANILA – Iloilo City’s Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago dismissed as “falsified” and “fictitious” the list of solons, prepared by whistleblower Benhur Luy,...

OFWs fret over defective e-passports

By SAMMY JULIAN Manila News Bureau Chief MANILA – Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in the Middle East have expressed concern over the issuance of an estimated...

Taipei clears Pinay in robbery case

By SAMMY JULIAN Manila News Bureau Chief MANILA – The Taipei District Prosecutors Office has filed charges against a Taiwanese lawyer for falsely accusing a Filipino...