Aklan’s first: Cops kill ‘pusher’ in Malay
BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
KALIBO, Aklan – Police shot and killed a suspected drug pusher in Malay town.
The 30-year-old Allan Rivero, a native of Davao...
Aklan remembers ‘father’
BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
KALIBO, Aklan – Locals once again remembered the man that initiated the separation of Aklan from Capiz.
Aklanons celebrated the 105th birth...
Capiz BMs in near fistfight
BY JOHN HEREDIA
ROXAS City – A Provincial Board member of Capiz challenged a colleague into a fistfight during a session on Wednesday.
Eleoper Martinez blew...
‘25T Aklan families need post-Yolanda aid’
BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
KALIBO, Aklan – Around 25,000 super typhoon “Yolanda” surviving families in Aklan have not yet received assistance from the government, according...
E. Asians flock to Boracay
BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
BORACAY – Tourists from East Asia dominated international arrivals in this island resort from January to October.
They numbered 577,234, or 78...
P14.8-M shabu seized in Cebu
CEBU City – A suspected big-time drug trafficker was arrested on Tuesday dawn in Barangay Pasil.
Police also confiscated some P14.8 million worth of shabu...
Mambusao ‘drug-free’
ROXAS City – Mambusao, Capiz has been declared “drug-free.”
Barangay Anti-Drug Abuse Councils (BADACs) in all 26 barangays have passed resolutions declaring their villages free...
Electrocution kills 2, injures 1 in Boracay
BY BOY RYAN ZABAL
BORACAY – Two people died while a pregnant woman was critically injured after they were electrocuted in Barangay Yapak in this...
Protesters liken Capiz pols to ‘manananggal’
BY JOHN HEREDIA
ROXAS City – Militants against the lifting of the moratorium on large-scale mining in Capiz likened the Provincial Board to an evil...
Oppose ’crackers, PHO urges LGUs
ILOILO – All local government units (LGUs) in the province were urged to oppose the use of firecrackers.
Their campaign should focus on children, who...