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PGC-UPV now capable of detecting COVID variants

ILOILO City – The Philippine Genome Center (PGC) satellite facility at the University of the Philippines (UP) Visayas - Miag-ao, Iloilo campus is now capable...
The P50 million three-story building of the NBI district office in San Jose, Antique. Photo from Province of Antique Facebook page.

P50M NBI district office in San Jose has been completed

SAN JOSE, Antique - The construction of the first National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) district office located in Barangay Dalipe, San Jose, Antique has...
Wearing facemask, a gasoline boy refills the fuel tank of a vehicle in a gasoline station in Pavia, Iloilo. PANAY NEWS PHOTO

House panel OKs bill amending Oil Deregulation Law

THE House committee on energy approved Tuesday the bill amending the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act as fuel prices continue to rise. During its online...

No cancellation of trips in Northern Negros

BACOLOD City – There was no stoppage of bus trips or cancellation of its operations in any part of Northern Negros on Friday, March...

Anti-insurgency program benefits 3 Iloilo barangays

ILOILO – Three villages in the municipality of Miag-ao are recipients of P20-million worth of projects each under the Local Government Support Fund -...

Prov’l gov’t kicks off 3-day ‘People Power Resbakuna’

ILOILO – The three-day “People Power Resbakuna” of the provincial government kicked off yesterday timed with the fourth round of the national government’s “Bayanihan...

PRO-6 scores 99 gun ban violators in two months

ILOILO City – Two months into the implementation of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) gun ban, the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) arrested 99...
Iloilo City’s Mayor Jerry Treñas says the city government is now looking into remedies for its surplus supply of AstraZeneca vaccines.

Iloilo City weighs ‘options’ on AstraZeneca vax surplus

ILOILO City – The City Legal Office (CLO) is looking for possible solutions to its surplus of AstraZeneca coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines. “We might...
Drug syndicates expect protection from election candidates they support, according to Director Alex Tablate of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Western Visayas.

PDEA frowns on candidates cozying up to drug traffickers

ILOILO City – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is wary of candidates in the upcoming elections seeking financial support from drug syndicates. It’s usually...
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Over 25T electoral boards in WV

ILOILO City – Western Visayas will have 25,710 electoral boards (formerly known as board of election inspectors) working during the synchronized national and local...