8 Bacolod UPV students finish quarantine

BACOLOD City – Eight Bacolodnon students of the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) were sent home after completing their mandatory 14-day quarantine at...

DepEd-Antique sets month-long enrollment on June 1

SAN JOSE, Antique – The Department of Education (DepEd) in Antique will start the enrollment for School Year 2020-2021 by June 1 following the...

Guimaras buys test kits worth P8.8M

ILOILO City – The provincial government of Guimaras has spent P8.8 million to purchase 4,000 test kits in the continuing fight against coronavirus disease...

NegOcc police teams formed for drug ops during quarantine

BACOLID City – City and municipal police stations in this province have formed teams tasked only to operate against illegal drug activities during the...

Bacolod man yields shabu worth P24K

BACOLOD City – Five sachets of suspected shabu weighing about two grams valued at around P24,500 were seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay...
Beneficiaries of the national government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP) cash assistance gather at the covered gym of La Paz district in Iloilo City to get their money. Observing social distancing in this setting is very difficult. Today, May 7, 2020, is the last day of the one-week extension given to local government units to finish distributing the cash assistance. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

CIDG-6 to public: Report SAP payout irregularities

ILOILO City – The Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) Region 6 urged the public to report alleged irregularities in the distribution of the...

Aklan won’t lower guard despite zero virus cases

BY JUN AGUIRRE AND BOY RYAN ZABAL KALIBO, Aklan – Although this province is now free from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) after all its seven...

Body of drowning victim in Culasi retrieved

SAN JOSE, Antique – A man was found dead floating near a dam in Barangay Valderama, Culasi, Antique. John Vincent Filaro, 27, was believed to...

Antique town transforms coco coir into road ramp sanitizers

SAN JOSE, Antique – Beneficiaries of the Shared Service Facility (SSF) of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in Sebaste, Antique are producing...

DAR: 67 NegOcc farmers installed, get land titles

BACOLOD City – The Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) has distributed land titles and installed 67 farmers from two areas in southern Negros Occidental.DAR...