30.9 C
Iloilo City
Friday, May 16, 2025

Top Stories

No stopping of demolitions in Boracay

ILOILO City – Today’s start of Boracay’s shutdown would further bolster efforts to remove structures that encroach the island’s wetlands and forestlands. “Tuloy-tuloy ‘yan kahit...
Dr. Adriano P. Subaan, incoming director of the Department of Health in Western Visayas, pays Iloilo’s Gov. Arthur Defensro Jr. a courtesy visit on June 29. He would assume office starting July 1. BALITA HALIN SA KAPITOLYO

DOH Region 6 gets new director by July

ILOILO City – The Department of Health (DOH) in Region 6 is getting a new chief beginning Thursday, July 1.    Incoming regional health director...

Drug surrenderer-turned-tanod shot to death

ILOILO City – Motorcycle-riding gunmen shot to death a village watchman in Barangay Calubihan, Jaro district yesterday morning. The victim turned himself in to...

NOPPO reports five active COVID-19 cases

BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA BACOLOD City – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (NOPPO) confirmed having five active cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)...

P866-M Iloilo Central Market makeover mulled

ILOILO City – The city government plans a P866.972-million redevelopment of the Iloilo Central Market. The goal is to make it “attract more clients, including...

TOO YOUNG, TOO SOON

Parents have a big role to play, according to the City Population Office (CPO).

Ex-convict stabs 2 women to death

BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO ILOILO City – A 51-year-old woman and her 81-year-old mother were stabbed in Barangay Tiwi, Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo. The stabbing happened around...

‘Release new fare matrix now!’

ILOILO City – What’s taking the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) so long to issue a new fare matrix for Iloilo’s public...

LWUA to aid MIWD — Aquino

By PRINCE GOLEZ Manila Reporter ILOILO City — The Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA) is stepping in to help solve the water problem in this city,...

No more night ops in relaunched drug war

BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO January 30, 2018 ILOILO City – In the relaunched Oplan Double Barrel of the Philippine National Police (PNP), antidrug operations must only...