Roxas City police personnel undergo ‘surprise’ drug test
ROXAS City – A total of 183 out 188 personnel of the police station here were recently subjected to an unannounced random drug test.
All...
Albee proposes ‘truth body’; Bing: I have nothing to hide
BACOLOD City – “We have nothing to hide.”
This was outgoing Mayor Evelio Leonardia’s reaction to Mayor-elect Albee Benitez’s plan to form a “truth commission”...
Bacolod City retailers seek revival of ‘night market’
BACOLOD City – The RTW and Retailers of Metro Bacolod Association, Inc. (RRMBAI) is requesting the city government to allow the holding of a...
Fever surveillance mulled; Antique dengue cases up
SAN JOSE, Antique – Barangay health workers (BHWs) and barangay nutrition scholars (BNS) in Antique are urged to launch fever monitoring due to the...
2 weekend fires raze 3 houses in Ibajay
IBAJAY, Aklan – Two fires broke out here, 39 kilometers west of the capital town of Kalibo.
Fire gutted a two-storey ancestral house along Sta....
NPA vice commander nabbed in Guihulngan
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – A suspected vice commander of the New People’s Army (NPA) was captured following an operation by the...
Antique aims to restore vegetation in tourist sites
SAN JOSE, Antique – The Antique provincial government has called on the people to protect existing forests and regreen barren land through tree-planting.
The call...
Warrantless arrest vs Kalibo security guard lawful – fiscal
KALIBO, Aklan – The Office of the Provincial Prosecutor ruled that the warrantless arrest against the prime suspect in the fatal stabbing at a...
On World Ocean Month, woman crosses Iloilo to Guimaras twice on paddleboard
BY HAZEL P. VILLA
ILOILO City – Early risers who take a walk or jog at the Iloilo River Esplanade in the last six months...
8 insurgent-affected brgys get P160-M infra projects
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Isabela, Negros Occidental mayor Irene Montilla revealed that eight of her town’s insurgent-affected barangays received P160-million worth...