Colonel Roland Vilela, director of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Vilela warns public vs impostor asking money, mobile phone load

ILOILO City – Somebody is passing himself off as Police Colonel Roland Vilela, director of the Iloilo Police Provincial Director, and asking money and mobile phone...
STILL SAFE. A vendor at the Iloilo Terminal Market inspects the meat and pork he is selling. They are safe, he insists. The deadly African swine fever virus has reached the country. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

NegOcc on ‘high alert’ as swine flu enters PH

BACOLOD City – The province of Negros Occidental is on heightened alert after the Department of Agriculture confirmed the first outbreak of African swine fever (ASF)...
CRIME DOES NOT PAY. Syrian Mona Ali Hassoun (left) has been convicted by courts in Syria this year and Kuwait last year for the death of Ilongga overseas Filipino worker Joanna Demafelis (right). Her Lebanese husband Nader Essam Assaf was convicted in Kuwait, too, and is currently undergoing trial in Lebanon where he fled. Both have been sentenced in absentia to die by hanging in Kuwait.

Syria convicts boss of frozen Iloilo OFW

MANILA – The female employer of slain Ilongga overseas Filipino worker (OFW) Joanna Demafelis in Kuwait has been convicted for murder by the Syrian...
A member of Humane Society International (HSI) administers the anti-rabies vaccine on a dog as part of their mass vaccination. Dogs are responsible for as much as 99 percent of rabies transmissions to humans, says the World Health Organization. REUTERS FILE PHOTO

Rabies remains a public threat but region short of vaccines

ILOILO City – Rabies remains a public threat in Western Visayas but there is a dearth of anti-rabies vaccines in the region, according to the Department of...
Mayor Jerry Treñas of Iloilo City and Executive Assistant Rosario San Agustin with the Gawad KALASAG Award received by the city government from the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council for Excellence in DRR and Humanitarian Assistance.

Iloilo City wins 2019 reg’l Gawad KALASAG

ILOILO City – The City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) was cited as the best in Western Visayas during the 21st Gawad KALASAG Awarding...

3 charges filed vs Sara SB secretary in buy-bust

ILOILO City – Illegal gun possession. Illegal drug possession. Attempted murder. These charges were filed against the Sangguniang Bayan (SB) secretary of Sara, Iloilo whom the...
“Indi gid mag-engage sa illegal nga hilikuton or bisyo,” Mayor Jon Aying of Sara, Iloilo reminds his employees. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Sara mayor reminds employees: Stay away from illegal drugs

ILOILO – Mayor Jon Aying of Sara reminded municipal hall employees to distance themselves from illegal drugs following the shooting of Sangguniang Bayan secretary James “Jaguar” Balsomo...
This suspected shabu worth P1.4 million was seized by operatives from a female suspect in Barangay Tangub, Bacolod City on Aug. 20. Drug enforcement units of the Bacolod City Police Office seized a total of P17.193 million worth of the prohibited substance from June to August this year. BCPO

BCPO seize P17.2-M ‘shabu’ in 3 months

BACOLOD City – Operatives of the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) drug enforcement unit have seized around P17.193 million worth of illegal drugs in 173 operations from...
League of Municipalities of the Philippines-Iloilo Chapter will extend financial aid to communities in Mindanao that were heavily hit by the series of earthquakes last month, says its president Mayor Mediatrix “Trexie” Fernandez of San Enrique. ANGAT BAYI

Iloilo towns urged to boost promotion of ‘best practices’

ILOILO – The municipal mayors of the province’s 42 towns including one component city have been urged to boost the promotion of their respective towns’ best practices...

Sara SB secretary shot in buy-bust

ILOILO – The Sangguniang Bayan secretary of the municipality of Sara was shot in an antidrug buy-bust operation of the police yesterday. James “Jaguar” Balsomo III put up...