Farmers work on a rice field in this province. The Department of Agriculture in Western Visayas is set to give a P5,000 cash aid to at least 20,488 small rice farmers in Negros Occidental under the Financial Subsidy to Rice Farmers Program. PNA

20K NegOcc farmers to receive cash aid from DA

BACOLOD City – At least 20,488 small rice farmers in this province are targeted recipients of Department of Agriculture (DA) Region 6’s P5,000 cash assistance under...
This province has enough supply of rice amid the enhanced community quarantine due to the coronavirus disease-2019 outbreak, according to the National Food Authority (NFA) here. NFA-Aklan currently has 88,600 bags of palay and 1,517 bags of rice as of April 15. NFA-AKLAN

NFA-Aklan assures enough rice supply amid ECQ

KALIBO, Aklan –There is still enough supply of rice in this province amid the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) due to the coronavirus disease 2019...
Integrated Provincial Health Office-Antique information officer Irene Dulduco says that laboratory results of three probable coronavirus disease 2019 in this province turned our negative. Their specimens were submitted to the Western Visayas Medical Center in Mandurriao, Iloilo City over the weekend. PNA

IPHO: Antique’s 3 probable COVID cases yield negative test results

SAN JOSE, Antique – The laboratory results of three probable coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in this province turned out negative, according to the Integrated Provincial...

Kalibo food task force to probe overpricing in public market

KALIBO, Aklan – The newly-organized food security task force in this capital town is set investigate the supposed overpricing of agriculture commodities in the public market...

Cadiao: Penalize people discriminating Antique frontliners

SAN JOSE, Antique – Under guidelines of the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) implemented in this province, there will be penalties to people who will discriminate healthcare...

Sagay mayor warns residents against fake coronavirus claims

BACOLOD City – Mayor Alfredo Marañon III of Sagay City, Negros Occidental has warned residents against spreading fake coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) information following the arrests...
Personnel of Sipalay City Tourism Development and Promotion Office, in coordination with the Negros Occidental Provincial Tourism Division, successfully repatriate nine more European tourists stranded during the holy week. Travel restrictions have been imposed in various places in the country due to coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak. SIPALAY CITY TOURISM OFFICE

NegOcc repatriates more stranded European tourists

BACOLOD City – Nine more European tourist stranded in Sipalay City, Negros Occidental have been ferried by charter planes to catch their repatriation flights in Manila...
Drug suspect Antonio Cerujano Jr. sits handcuffed while antidrug officers inspect items seized from him in an entrapment operation in Barangay Barra Roxas City on April 13. GLENN BEUP/PN

Roxas City buy-bust nets P130-K ‘shabu’

ROXAS City – Ten grams of suspected shabu valued at around P130,000 was seized in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Barra. The 31-year-old Antonio Cerujano Jr. yielded the...

‘Broken-hearted’ cop walks naked in Boracay

ILOILO City – A police officer believed to be suffering from depression has been placed under custody for walking naked in the world-famous Boracay Island in...
Malacañang is urging the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine to ensure accuracy of coronavirus disease 2019 test results before releasing them to concerned parties. This after the RITM clarified that ACT-CIS party-list Representative Eric Go Yap is negative for the viral disease, saying the mistake was due to a “clerical oversight.” GMA NEWS

Aklan to send 32 specimens to Iloilo for mass testing

BY JUN AGUIRRE AND BOY RYAN ZABAL KALIBO, Aklan – The Provincial Health Office in Aklan (PHO-Aklan) is sending a total of 32 specimens to the...