Opposition senator Leila de Lima has challenged supermarket chains and convenience stores nationwide to take the lead in the global campaign against single-use plastics. MNN.COM

Prov’l ordinance regulates single-use plastics, Styrofoam

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ILOILO – In this province, no business establishments, market vendors, food kiosks, sari-sari stores, ambulant vendors, and the like will be allowed to utilize or provide...
Panay Electric Co., the sole power distributor in Iloilo City for the past 95 years, has vowed exhaust all legal remedies to protect its assets. Though its franchise expired in January this year, it has been allowed to operate by the Energy Regulatory Commission via a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. PECO’s office is on General Luna Street, Iloilo City. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Court suspends PECO expropriation proceedings

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ILOILO City – The Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 35 suspend proceedings in the expropriation case filed by MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) against...
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) explained in a statement on Tuesday that banks cannot increase ATM fees on their own and that any bank that intends to adjust ATM fees must formally file its request with the BSP. ECOMPAREMO

‘Not all P4s beneficiaries know how to use ATMs’

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ILOILO City – Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) cash grants are downloaded to Land Bank of the Philippines and beneficiaries are issued with cash cards to...
THE BEST IS YET TO COME. There is still room for improvement in the Dinagyang, one of the most colorful festivals in the country, according to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts. It can attract more tourists than it already has. How? PN PHOTO

Dinagyang 2020: ‘Don’t bastardize Sto. Niño images’

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ILOILO City – Take note of this, all Dinagyang Festival 2020 performers and revelers: Don’t bastardize Santo Niño images. Handle them with care and respect. “Don’t...

NegOcc board OKs measure institutionalizing pork ban

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BACOLOD City – The Provincial Board (PB) of Negros Occidental passed on third and final reading the measure that would institutionalize a ban on entry of...

Ilonggos have best sex life – survey

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ILOILO City – Ilonggos have the best sex life among Visayans and have a better one compared to the rest of the country, the 2019 PhilCare...

‘Kill stray dogs? Euthanize their owners instead’

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ILOILO City – “Let the irresponsible owners suffer, not the innocent animals.” “There are more decent solutions.” “Iloilo is a livable city. Is this statement applicable to humans...
Activists call for the release of colleague Herman Allesa who was arrested in Maasin, Iloilo. Operatives of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office raided Allesa’s house and reported having recovered a grenade. Allesa had served as treasurer of the peasant group PAMANGGAS Panay and Guimaras. He was arrested on Nov. 10, 2019 by policemen as one of several John Does charged for the June 2017 New People’s Army raid of the Maasin police station. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Iloilo activists wary of gov’t crackdown

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ILOILO City – Activists in this city and Iloilo province expect more arrests from their ranks following the apprehension of a former barangay captain of Bolo,...
“I believe ang Iloilo-Guimaras bridge project may budget na and I think ready na for first phase by 2021,” says Sen. Miguel Zubiri.

Zubiri: 2021 start of building Iloilo-Guimaras bridge

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ILOILO – Traveling from Iloilo to Guimaras will no longer entail a perilous boat ride that can even lead to tragedy once inter-island bridge connecting the...
The provincial capitol building of Negros Occidental in Bacolod City will soon become a free wireless internet service to be set up by the Department of Information and Communications Technology. The project is part of the implementation of Republic Act 10929, or the “Free Internet Access in Public Places Act.” NEGROS OCCIDENTAL

NegOcc sets target for 2020 budget approval

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BACOLOD City – The Provincial Board of Negros Occidental is expected to approve the province’s proposed P4.2-billion 2020 budget by the end of the month. “We can finish...
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