Iloilo City ‘high risk’ for COVID-19 anew
ILOILO City – From moderate risk last week, this southern city has been reclassified by the Department of Health (DOH) as a high risk...
Fire hits Negros church
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGABACOLOD City – A portion of the historic St. Vincent Ferrer Parish Church in Barangay Vito, Sagay City, Negros Occidental was...
City cop arrested for ‘illegal cockfighting’
ILOILO City – For illegal cockfighting, a police officer assigned here and his four companions were arrested in Barangay Cagbang, Oton, Iloilo over the...
NGCP alerts public of possible rotational brownouts in Panay
ILOILO City – There could be rotational power outages in Panay Island until August.
The National Grid Corp. of the Philippines’ (NGCP) high-voltage submarine cable...
City dad bats for rainwater harvesting system
ILOILO City – Councilor Ely Estante is pushing for the creation of rainwater harvesting system here.
He filed an ordinance entitled “Iloilo City Rainwater Harvesting...
Bacolod exec: Be wary of ‘vaccine runners’
BY MAE SINGUAY AND DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in this city are all free, according to the...
Health protocol violators skirting sanctions may face raps
ILOILO City – Violators of health protocols imposed to curb coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread dodging their penalties are being warned.
Since June 1 this...
For ‘mass gathering’, Baronda serves penalty: community service
ILOILO City – As early as June 30, Cong. Julienne Baronda started rendering community service as penalty for attending a mass gathering last month.
According to...
NegOcc’s AstraZeneca vaccine orders arriving
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – The first batch of 100,000 doses of British-made AstraZeneca vaccines against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that the Negros...
Bacolod hospitals clamor for unpaid PhilHealth claims, too
BACOLOD City – Hospitals in this city struggling with the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are also being burdened with Philippine Health Insurance Corp.’s...