A traffic enforcer directs the flow of vehicles and pedestrians in Molo, Iloilo City. The city will now fully compensate traffic auxiliaries for their 26 days of duty every month. However, some of them will be retrenched. JAPHET FAJARDO/PN

Iloilo City to hire 100 more traffic aides

ILOILO CITY – The city government will hire 100 more traffic auxiliaries to manage the traffic in the city’s thoroughfares including in the Ungka...

2022 WV crime volume down

ILOILO City – From January to December of 2022, crimes in Western Visayas reached 2,783 cases – an 8.66 percent drop from the 3,047...

Iloilo City to relaunch drive vs noisy mufflers

ILOILO City – This city’s Public Safety and Transportation Management Office (PSTMO) is relaunching the campaign against noisy mufflers. PSTMO head Jeck Conlu said their...
Fast crafts docked at the Bredco port in Bacolod City. PNA

Passengers flock at BREDCO as work resumes

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA BACOLOD City – More than a thousand passengers flocked at BREDCO port in this city on Monday morning, Jan. 2,...
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Classes in Bacolod public schools to resume on Jan. 4

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA BACOLOD City – Classes in public schools here resume on Jan. 4. Teachers, however, are returning to work on Jan. 3,...
Iloilo City’s first case of African Swine Fever (ASF) was logged in Zone 5, Barangay Tacas, Jaro district. Mayor Jerry P. Treñas assures the public that the city government through its ASF taskforce will follow the proper protocols in the disposal of hogs within 500-meter radius from the infected hog farm. ILOILO CITY MAYOR’S OFFICE PHOTO

Treñas warns traffic aides anew

ILOILO City – Mayor Jerry P. Treñas has again warned traffic aides not doing their job. Information reached him that some traffic aides were not...
Mayor Jerry P. Treñas and University of the Philippines Visayas chancellor Clement Camposano lead the commemoration of the 126th death anniversary of national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, at Plaza Libertad in Iloilo City on Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. AJ PALCULLO/PN

‘We need to share in Rizal’s intellectual audacity’

ILOILO City – “As we continue to evolve in the present, so must we revisit the story of how we came to be as...

ASF infects 62 Iloilo villages

ILOILO – A total of 62 barangays from nine towns in this province recorded African Swine Fever (ASF) infections as of Dec. 29. Oton, the...
Negros Occidental’s Cong. Emilio "Dino" Yulo says producers are now happy to see sugar prices bounce back after almost a month of downward slump. ABS-CBN NEWS PHOTO

Present sugar prices augur well for planters

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA BACOLOD City – Sugar prices rebounded after a three-week slide. Negros Occidental 5th District’s Cong. Emilio  Yulo, formerly a board member...
The Panay Bell or “Dakung Lingganay” at the Sta. Monica Church in Panay, Capiz is the “biggest Catholic church bell in Southeast Asia.” PHOTO COURTESY OF PIA CAPIZ

‘Biggest bell’ in Southeast Asia marks 144th year

ROXAS City – Before dawn of Dec. 21, the parish of the centuries-old Sta. Monica Church in Panay, Capiz rang the Panay Bell –...