Iloilo’s contact tracing app PH’s best COVID initiative
ILOILO – The provincial government’s web-based RIsC-TrAp or Reverse Isolation and Contact Tracing Application was hailed the best among many response initiatives against coronavirus...
Bacolod city hall workers to get extra P30K bonus
BACOLOD City – Christmas just got merrier for city government employees here despite the coronavirus pandemic.
Employees and personnel of the city hall will be...
San Carlos wants bedridden individuals tested for COVID
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGABACOLOD City – The city government of San Carlos in Negros Occidental will subject all bedridden individuals to surveillance testing for...
‘COVID response-centered’ 2021 budget gets SP nod
BACOLOD City – This city will have P2.6 billion at its disposal in 2021.
The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) approved this executive budget of the city...
‘MEGA DAM IS GAME CHANGER’; Drilon: Agriculture ‘silver lining’ in Iloilo’s pandemic-hit economy
ILOILO City – Iloilo city and province are positioned to recover once the coronavirus disease pandemic is over, and agriculture will be the key,...
RIATF OKs LSI ban in 4 NegOcc LGUs
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – The Regional Inter-Agency Task Force (RIATF) in Western Visayas approved the request of four local government units (LGUs)...
No more active COVID cases in 10 Iloilo towns
ILOILO – Ten municipalities in this province have no more active cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The Provincial Health Office’s (PHO) Dec. 4 data...
GSO wants illegal settlers out of Burgos cemetery
BACOLOD City – The General Services Office (GSO) will give a 15-day ultimatum to informal settlers to vacate the Burgos Public Cemetery in this...
No Xmas parties for Bacolod BPO firms
BACOLOD City – Business process outsourcing (BPO) companies in this city are forgoing face-to-face Christmas parties.
Instead, they will celebrate virtually to prevent the transmission...
Special task group to hasten probe of antidrug cop’s slay
ILOILO City – The Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) has formed a special investigation task group (SITG) to look into the killing of Police Corporal...