OCD wraps up training on disaster preparedness

Sunday, April  30, 2017   ILOILO City – The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in Western Visayas wrapped up yesterday its three-day seminar / training that...

Hanging bridges, roads for easier produce transport

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA Saturday, April 29, 2017   ILOILO – Two hanging bridges and two roads will be built in barangays Hilwan and Aglonok in Calinog town. Under...

‘No major untoward incidents at Palaro so far’

INSERT DATE HERE!   SAN JOSE, Antique – Authorities have not monitored or responded to any major untoward incident five days into the 60th Palarong Pambansa. So...

Boracay 4th friendliest island | Palawan tops Travel+Leisure world list; Cebu, Luzon follow

BY BOY RYAN ZABAL Saturday, April 29, 2017   BORACAY – Four Philippine islands rounded out the top four friendliest islands in the world, according to Travel+Leisure...

Farmers get creative with postharvest corn wastes

INSERT DATE HERE! ILOILO – Corn farmers found a way to convert corn wastes into useful materials and make them an additional source of income. Around 30...

Budget concerns impede brgy drug testing in Capiz

BY GLENN VIDAL BEUP Friday, April 28, 2017   ROXAS City – Only three out of the 473 barangays in Capiz province have conducted mandatory drug testing...

Kalibo, BFP responders ‘Rescuelympics’ champs

BY BOY RYAN ZABAL Friday, April 28, 2017 KALIBO, Aklan – Rescuers and medical responders from Kalibo and the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) provincial office...

Livelihood for 45 farmers, fishers in Oton

Friday, April 28, 2017   OTON, Iloilo – Forty-five farmers and fishers who are members of the Movement for Agrarian and Rural Advancement (MARA) in Barangay...

Cops: ‘We’ve foiled Abu Sayyaf plans’

INSERT DATE HERE!   CEBU City – Police claimed to have foiled the Abu Sayyaf’s planned incursion in Inabanga town in Bohol province. “Whatever their plans, be...

114 ‘drug-cleared’ Aklan brgys up for revalidation

BY BOY RYAN ZABAL Thursday, April 27, 2017   KALIBO, Aklan – All the 114 barangays in Aklan declared “drug-cleared” will be reviewed and revalidated by a...