Fruits, seafood, meat ease Guimaras’ food inflation in June
GUIMARAS – This province’s food inflation rate eased to 6.9 percent in June 2023 from 8/2 percent in May, based on the generated data...
City gov’t orders closure of junk shop, revokes biz permit
BACOLOD City – The city government padlocked DLC Junk Shop on Mabini Street, Barangay 25 yesterday for allegedly accepting and storing stolen telecommunications (telco)...
IATF: ‘Positive result on Caluya oil spill cleanup’
ANTIQUE – Months-long cleanup initiatives to address the oil spill in the island municipality of Caluya yielded positive results, according to the Inter-Agency Task...
Bacolod opens gov’t satellite office
BACOLOD City – To bring government services closer to the public, the city government has opened a satellite office.
Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez led the...
Bago City rice farmers get P21-M aid
BACOLOD City – Farmers in Bago City, the top rice-producers in Negros Occidental province and Western Visayas, received P21.39 million in aid under the...
Gun, ammo seized from ‘kagawad’
CAPIZ – An incumbent barangay kagawad of Barangay Dapdapan, Sapian, Capiz was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Vergelio Obugan Peralta, 58,...
Tricycle driver nabbed in Guimaras buy-bust
GUIMARAS – A 31-year-old tricycle driver was collared in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Sto. Rosario, Buenavista, Guimaras yesterday afternoon, July 5.
Brian Pracillo was...
Antique mayor suspended for simple misconduct, oppression
ANTIQUE – Belison municipal mayor Christopher H. Piccio has been slapped with a six-month suspension by the Office of the Ombudsman-Visayas (OPV).
This stemmed from...
BFAR-6 patrol boat sinks
BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS
ILOILO City – The eight-year-old patrol boat of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-6 (BFAR-6) docked at the Iloilo River...
Disaster Resilience Month kicks off
ILOILO City – With the theme “BIDAng Pilipino: Building a Stronger Filipino Well-being towards Disaster Resilience”, the National Disaster Resilience Month celebration officially kicked...