Lieutenant Colonel Ricardo Jomuad Jr. is the new Roxas City police station chief. Jomuad is succeeding Lieutenant Colonel Dante Tayco who is set to undergo schooling. GLENN BEUP/PN

Roxas City has new top cop

ROXAS City – Lieutenant Colonel Ricardo Jomuad Jr. is the new police director of this city.  A turnover ceremony was held on Friday morning in the...
Responders carry one of the body of the three brothers who died due to suffocation inside an underground water tank in Barangay Maindang, Cuartero, Capiz on Wednesday. PDRMMO CAPIZ

3 brothers suffocate to death inside tank in Capiz

ROXAS City – Three brothers died of suffocation while working inside an underground water tank in Barangay Maindang, Cuartero, Capiz. They were laborers 25-year-old Jerson, 19-year-old Neil Jun...
Sipalay is now becoming a surfers’ paradise in Negros Occidental. The City Tourism Office recently launched the “City Skim and Surf Fest” to further promote the city’s beaches. SIPALAY CITY TOURISM OFFICE

Sipalay City kicks off first-ever surf fest

BACOLOD City –The city of Sipalay in Negros Occidental is not just a divers’ haven but is also now becoming a surfers’ paradise. In a bid...

Tour guide nabbed in Boracay buy-bust

BORACAY – A 23-year-old tour guide was arrested in a buy-bust operation in this fame-island resort. Police identified as Mark Jude Minez of Barangay Manoc Manoc,...
Criollo cacao is used in the Philippines to make chocolate bars called tablea and in a traditional hot chocolate drink or tsokolate. It can also be processed into cocoa nibs or powder. It is the preferred variety in making sticky rice rolls or suman, according to the Slow Food Foundation for Biodiversity. AMAZON.COM

DA finds ‘gold’ in Aklan cacao farmer

KALIBO, Aklan – The Department of Agriculture (DA) said it found “gold” from a cacao farmer in the hinterlands of Libacao, Aklan. Alexys Apolonio, senior provincial...

DOE seizes 21T liters of illegal liquid fuels

ROXAS CITY, Capiz – More than 21,000 liters of petroleum products were recovered by the Department of Energy from illegal traders in Capiz. In a raid...
“The continuous anti-illegal drugs campaign of President Rodrigo Duterte results in more barangays being declared as drug-cleared,” says San Jose de Buenavista Mayor Elmer Untaran. PNA

‘Antidrug drive attracts investors to Antique’

SAN JOSE, Antique – The government’s relentless campaign against illegal drugs enabled this capital town of Antique to entice more investors due to favorable peace and...
Personnel of the Veterinary Quarantine Station in Western Visayas with some local officials dispose raw and processed meat products seized mostly from arriving Korean and Chinese tourists at the Kalibo International Airport in Aklan on July 23. VQS Region 6

Seized imported meat destroyed in Kalibo

KALIBO, Aklan – Authorities have destroyed meat products seized from inbound passengers at the Kalibo International Airport. The products were from countries where there is an...

‘Pusher’ falls in Roxas drug bust

ROXAS City – He allegedly sold shabu. Thirty-eight-year-old Julius Andama was arrested in a drug buy-bust operation in Barangay Lawaan, Pueblo de Panay. Recovered from...
Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction Management officer Alex Crespo shows to San Jose Mayor Elmer Untaran some of the rescue equipment during the Disaster Preparedness and Response Exhibit. PIA ANTIQUE

San Jose shows off disaster, emergency response capabilities

SAN JOSE, Antique – The Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council here afforded the public to see the response capability of the town’s disaster and emergency...