Cemetery visits in WV peaceful – PNP

ILOILO City – This year’s observance of All Saints’ Day (Nov. 1) and All Souls’ Day (Nov. 2) was generally orderly and peaceful across Western Visayas.   This was the...
POLICE INSPECTION. Iloilo City police director Colonel Martin Defensor (left) and Western Visayas police director Brigadier General Rene Pamuspusan check the situation at the Mandurriao Catholic Cemetery in Mandurriao district. The Police Regional Office 6 is mobilizing 2,085 policemen and nearly 7,000 force multipliers across the region to maintain peace and order this All Saints’ Day (Nov. 1) and All Souls’ Day (Nov. 2). IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Cemetery smokers, litterbugs face arrest

ILOILO City – The traditional observance of All Saints’ Day (Nov. 1) and All Souls’ Day (Nov. 2) is not an excuse to smoke or litter...
Mayor Jerry Treñas. IAN PAUL CORRDEO/PN

‘NO ORDINARY EMPLOYEE’ Treñas: Camacho’s TV stunt aims to destroy me

ILOILO City – “She is no ordinary employee. And there is somebody using her.” Thus said Mayor Jerry Treñas of Rosita Camacho, a special operations officer at...
Vice President Leni Robredo says in her radio program on Sunday that the Supreme Court must issue its verdict during its en banc session today. POSITIVELYFILIPINO

Robredo shrugs off Du30’s ‘drug czar’ offer

ILOILO City – Instead of answering the challenge to lead the government’s campaign against illegal drugs, Vice President Leni Robredo said on Tuesday President Rodrigo Duterte...

PH growth recovery seen to start in Q3

MANILA – Improvement in government expenditures is expected to boost domestic growth to the six percent level starting in the third quarter of 2019 after the slowdown...
BEGGING FOR HELP.Carrying a baby, a Badjao beggar knocks on the window of a vehicle stuck in traffic in Barangay Ungka, Jaro, Iloilo City. The city government plans to transport back to Sulu all Badjao mendicants. Also called “sea gypsies”, many Badjaos have been displaced by decades of conflict in Mindanao. IAN PAUL CORDERO

Treñas: No livelihood or houses for Badjaos

ILOILO City – The city government won’t be providing livelihood to mendicant Badjaos or giving them houses. The priority for these programs are the poor residents...

Student raped, killed; 2 of 4 suspects caught

ILOILO City – A 19-year-old Central Philippine University college student was raped then stabbed with an ice pick in Barangay Abangay, Janiuay, Iloilo. Two of four suspects,...
Iloilo 4th District Board member Rolando Distura identifies the locations of the high-frequency coastal radars that will be put up in Carles and Concepcion towns by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA during a briefing on Thursday. PNA

2 northern Iloilo towns to get coastal radar stations

LOILO City – The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has included the province of Iloilo as one of the recipients of the high-frequency...
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Flower vendors banned from cemetery sidewalks

ILOILO City – Selling flowers and candles along sidewalks leading to cemeteries, public or private, this Nov. 1 and 2 (All Saints’ Day and All Souls’...
Mayor Jerry Treñas of Iloilo City leads the strategic planning for a blue print addressing the concern on street children. “It is my hope that these vulnerable children will have more chances to gain life skills for a productive future,” he says.

Iloilo City crafts roadmap for ‘children in street situations’

ILOILO City – The Iloilo City Task Force on Street Children (ICTFSC) has started working on a roadmap to design, prioritize and invest in the improvement...