7 La Carlota houses placed under ‘lockdown’ for quarantine breach
BACOLOD City – Residents of seven households in five villages in La Carlota City, Negros Occidental has been banned from travelling after they breached...
DOLE livelihood project up for Antique sugar migrants, LSIs
SAN JOSE, Antique – Antiqueño sugar migrants and other locally stranded individuals (LSIs) who were repatriated may now avail themselves of livelihood under the...
PSA-Aklan: WV unemployment hits 13.7% in April
KALIBO, Aklan – The unemployment rate in Western Visayas rose to 13.7 percent in the month of April, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in...
Himamaylan City launches ‘Bike to Work, Bike to School’ program
BACOLOD City – The “Bike to Work and Bike to School” program has been introduced by the local government of Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental...
W. Visayas to boost COVID testing with more centers
ILOILO City – The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing capability of Western Visayas will be strengthened once all its target laboratory centers begin to...
NegOcc sets up more sweeper flights for stranded residents
BACOLOD City – The provincial government has arranged sweeper flights with the Philippine Airlines (PAL) for the repatriation this week of residents stranded in...
Kalibo opens tricycle franchise renewal
KALIBO, Aklan – The Sangguniang Bayan in this capital town has opened the franchise renewal of tricycles as public transport through a drop box.
“The...
‘Drug-free’ tag up for 304 Aklan barangays– PDEA
KALIBO, Aklan – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Western Visayas recently declared 304 villages in this province as “drug-cleared.”
These barangays passed the...
Antique LGUs urged to submit list of recipients left out of SAP part 1
SAN JOSE, Antique – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) is requesting local government units (LGUs) in this province to submit their...
PCPC helps frontliners, donates food, PPE to host communities
PALM Concepcion Power Corporation (PCPC) has already started providing aid to its host communities in Iloilo even before the coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak became...