WORKING DAY AND NIGHT. The Iloilo City Police Office is mobilizing over 400 policemen to enforce the enhanced community quarantine and curfew in the metro in a bid to slow down if not stop the spread of the coronavirus disease. As frontliners in the fight against the pandemic they, too, are risking their lives like healthcare workers in the name of public service. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Pavia curfew violators give police headache

ILOLO – The municipality of Pavia has the most number of quarantine curfew violators in the province – 144 as of April 12, according to Police...
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No new COVID-19 cases in WV for two days

ILOILO City – Western Visayas recorded no new positive cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) for two days in a row. The region’s positive cases remained at 40...

WV social amelioration: P5B released to 80 LGUs

ILOILO City – Eighty local government units (LGUs) in Western Visayas may start releasing today cash assistance to their constituents economically displaced by the ongoing coronavirus disease...

OWWA denies violating COVID protocols

ILOILO City – The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) denied violating the protocols set by the national government’s Inter-Agency Task Forcefor the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID)...
Authorities at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 use thermal imaging cameras to detect travelers with signs of coronavirus. This is part of the tightened medical quarantine protocols to prevent the virus' entry into the country. CNN PH

Return of 100 stranded Ilonggo OFWs aborted

ILOILO – This morning’s scheduled return here of some 100 Ilonggo overseas workers stranded in Metro Manila won’t push through. Their health status – whether positive or not...
Mayor Jerry Treñas of Iloilo City assures the public he is transparent with his health condition. “Prangka ako kag wala gid nagabinutig sa inyo,” he says. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Treñas rips OWWA for breaking COVID protocol

ILOILO City – “I was terribly mad at the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA),” confessed Mayor Jerry Treñas. He accused the agency of violating the protocol on...
Malandog Bridge, located in the boundary of the towns of San Jose and Hamtic in Antique will be temporarily close to the public due to rehabilitation works. According to Department of Public Works and Highways project engineer Ricardo Gayatin, the closure will start on July 26 to Aug. 4. DENR

Over 800 violators of Negros quarantine fall

BACOLOD City – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) has arrested 879 individuals violating the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) since its implementation on March 30. Of...

Panay’s 1st COVID-19 case beats ‘corona’

BY IME SORNITO and GLENDA TAYONA ILOILO – Panay Island’s and this province’s first confirmed case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a 65-year-old man, was discharged from...

Bye PUI, PUM; DOH adopts new classifications

ILOILO City – The Department of Health (DOH) is adopting new “surveillance definitions” or nomenclatures in the reporting of cases that for several weeks it had...
Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office director Colonel Romeo Baleros. PNA

NegOcc cops beef up security amid cash aid distribution

BACOLOD City – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOCPPO) is tightening its security in various banks in the province during the distribution of cash aid...