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Councilor, casual employee to dialogue with Bacolod mayor

BACOLOD City â€“ A council member in this city and a job order casual employee will have a closed-door meeting this morning with Mayor Alfredo...
Former senator Franklin Drilon (second from left) inspects on Oct. 19, 2023 the housing project at the Uswag Residential Complex in Barangay San Isidro, Jaro District in Iloilo City which funding he facilitated before he stepped down from the Senate. Lawyer Peter Jason Millare, head of the Iloilo City Local Housing Office, said a huge housing backlog is a challenge for the city government. PNA FILE PHOTO BY PGLENA

Masterlist of informal settlers in Iloilo City eyed

ILOILO City – This city’s housing board will conduct a house-to-house survey to determine the number of informal settlers for the master list of...
Photo courtesy of DOH Region 6

68 PDLs in Aklan cast votes for BSKE

KALIBO, Aklan – Sixty-eight persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) were allowed to vote for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (BSKE) in the province of...

BTAO announces road closure for ‘Fiesta Minatay’

BACOLOD City – The city government will be implementing a 2-day full road closure along Burgos Street in the North Public Cemetery (Burgos Cemetery)...

Clash over debt ends in dual fatalities in La Paz

BY JEN BAYLON ILOILO City – A dispute over an outstanding debt, suspected to be tied to illegal drug transactions, spiraled into a deadly encounter...

Young man kills self

BY JEN BAYLON ILOILO – A 22-year-old man from Barangay Tiwi, Barotac Nuevo took his own life on Saturday, Oct. 28. The young man was just...
Celeste (left); Torred (right)

2 Negrenses top Electronics licensure exams

BACOLOD City – Two Negrenses have recently topped the 2023 Electronics licensure examinations held earlier this month. John March Urbano Celeste of the Technological University...
A police buy-bust operation in Dumangas, Iloilo, on Saturday, Oct. 28, led to the arrest of two suspects and the seizure of P680,000 shabu. PRO-6 PHOTO

Cops net P680K ‘shabu’ in Dumangas

BY JEN BAYLON ILOILO – The Dumangas Municipal Police Station successfully seized P680,000 worth of shabu in Sitio Naluoyan, Barangay Sapao, Dumangas, at 8:35 p.m....
A motorcycle driver was hurt in a collision with a sports utility vehicle in Barangay Sido, Sibalom, on Monday night, Oct. 23. Antique Police Provincial Office data showed there were over 400 road crashes in the province so far this year. JOHN JAYSON GRAFANE SAPA/BRIGADA SAN JOSE-ANTIQUE

400 road crashes in Antique this year

ANTIQUE – More than 400 road accidents have occurred in the province of Antique so far this year, a 19.57 percent increase compared in 2022. There...
The recoveries from a dismissed Philippine Army and two others allegedly engaged in gun running activities after an entrapment operation in Dumangas, Iloilo on Thursday, Oct. 26. CIDG-ILOILO PHOTO

Ex-army, 2 others arrested for ‘gun running’

BY JEN BAYLON & RUBY SILUBRICO ILOILO – In an entrapment operation by the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG)-Iloilo, three gun running suspects, including a...