When tourism restarted late last year, visitors returning to Boracay Island were mostly from the National Capital Region. Without the China and South Korea markets, however, the island’s tourist arrivals remain low.

It’s Sinovac vaccines for Boracay tourism workers

BORACAY – This island expects to receive 40,000 doses of Sinovac anti-coronavirus disease vaccines donated by China to the Philippine government, more than enough...

Antique posts 2nd COVID-19 death

SAN JOSE, Antique – The Integrated Provincial Health Office (IPHO) has reported Antique’s second death due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) yesterday. IPHO Information Officer...

Two die in separate motorcycle crashes

ROXAS City – Two persons died in separate road accidents involving motorcycles here and in Dumalag, Capiz. In the first accident, the fatality was 23-year-old...
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Man charged with child abuse

MALAY, Aklan – A 27-year-old man was arrested in Boracay Island on March 2 at around 4 p.m. Policemen served to Ronnel Pablo a warrant...
Centenarians (from left) Anacleta Gahap Garcia, Sabino Gallego and Virginia Gaborno Montaño of Buenavista, Guimaras have bared their secret to long live – eating more vegetables than meat. PHOTOS FROM LGU BUENAVISTA FACEBOOK PAGE

3 Guimaras residents reach 100 years old

BUENAVISTA, Guimaras – Three persons who reached the age of 100 years old here each received P100,000 incentive from the Department of Social Welfare...

Capiz to reopen prov’l library

ROXAS City – Closed since November 2013 after super typhoon “Yolanda” damaged it, Capiz’s provincial library will reopen to the public. The National Library of...
Information materials on the African swine fever are distributed to various stores in Antique. The Department of Trade and Industry - Antique are monitoring business establishments as part of the campaign. PHOTO BY PROVET-ANTIQUE

DTI-Antique monitors business establishments in ASF campaign

SAN JOSE, Antique – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) - Antique has monitored 92 business establishments as part of the strengthened campaign...
Health workers wearing protective gear extract nasal swab samples from a city government employee during the first day of mass testing at the Iloilo City Freedom Grandstand on Wednesday, Sept. 23. Panay News

P25 ‘pandemic allowance’ for WV workers proposed

BACOLOD City – In the coming weeks the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB) in Western Visayas will hold public consultations on the...

Drug pushing suspect falls

ROXAS City – A 21-year-old drug pushing suspect was arrested in a buy-bust operation of the Capiz Police Provincial Office’s Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit...
A priest blesses this 16-room quarantine facility built by the Department of Public Works and Highways for the provincial government of Guimaras at the capitol grounds in Barangay San Miguel, Jordan town. PHOTO COURTESY OF BUENAVISTA, GUIMARAS LGU

Guimaras gets 2 new quarantine facilities

JORDAN, Guimaras – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) recently turned over two newly-built quarantine facilities for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) to...