Cadiao hopes Antique airport upgrade begins this year
ANTIQUE – Gov. Rhodora Cadiao is waiting for updates from the Department of Transportation (DOTr) on when the Antique airport upgrading will start.
The Evelio...
Cuartero’s most wanted nabbed
CAPIZ – The No. 1 most wanted person in Cuartero town was arrested in Barangay Poblacion Ilawod.
Authorities served an arrest warrant against Policarpio Batolenio,...
Grandson hacks granny dead
BACOLOD City – A 17-year-old lad allegedly hacked his grandmother to death in Barangay Buluangan, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental, at around 11 a.m....
P1.7-M ‘shabu’ seized from couple
BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS
ROXAS City – An estimated P1.7 million worth of suspected shabu was seized from a couple in Barangay Banica around 8:46...
Antique, 13 towns cited for ‘Good Financial Housekeeping’
ANTIQUE – The provincial government of Antique and 13 of its municipalities were recognized as 2022 Seal of Good Financial Housekeeping (SGFH) passers by...
Guimaras deaths drop in 2022, more men than women die
GUIMARAS – After the pandemic, registered deaths in Guimaras dropped by -24.09 percent, from 1,577 in 2021 to 1,197 in 2022, according to the...
Open, transparent, fair importation – sugar group
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – In a letter to the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA), the Confederation of Sugar Producers Associations (CONFED) called...
Facilitated SIM sign-up to rollout in Antique
ANTIQUE – After Aklan and Iloilo, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) Region 6 will be in Antique for another facilitated subscriber identity module (SIM)...
Cop shoots bolo-wielding man
BY RHENJIE MARIE CALANTAS
ILOILO – A police officer ended up in jail after shooting a man who was allegedly trying to hack him in...
Bacolod mayor to travel again with PBBM
BACOLOD City – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo Benitez will be accompanying President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on an official trip to Japan today, Feb. 8, until...