Fire? Alert BFP fast thru new mobile phone application

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ILOILO – The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in Western Visayas developed a mobile application that concerned citizens can use to alert it fast if there...
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Proposed ‘no homework’ policy: good or bad?

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ILOILO City – If House Bill 388 becomes a law (No Homework on Weekends Act of 2019), elementary and high school teachers would be prohibited from...
WHEN THE GOING GETS WE AND MUDDY. New police recruits get ready for their pushups during reception rites at the wet and muddy grounds of Camp Delgado, the headquarters of the Police Regional Office 6 in Iloilo City. Four hundred all-male police recruits took oath as members of the Philippine National Police yesterday, Aug. 28, 2019. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

‘We’ll give the strictest training’

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ILOILO City – Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) got a much-needed boost. Four hundred all-male police recruits took oath as members of the Philippine National Police (PNP)...
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

‘Swine checkpoints’ pressed to shield Iloilo from ASF

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ILOILO City – As a precautionary measure against the possible entry of African Swine Fever (ASF), the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) pressed for the conduct of checkpoints...
Public Private Partnership (PPP) Center’s Cherry May Manacho (2nd from left) and Gee Maureen Manguera (3rd from left), both project development officers of the Project Development and Monitoring Facility Service; and Christian Placido Calma (5th from left), training specialist of the Capacity Building Division, conducted an orientation-workshop with Iloilo City’s PPP selection team headed by Mayor Jerry Treñas and the technical working group at the city hall penthouse Aug. 22-23.

Wanted: public market investors

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ILOILO City – The city government is scouting prospective investors to develop public markets in the metropolis under a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. Mayor Jerry Treñas, however,...
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

Not too late to rectify mistake, PECO tells RTC Branch 37

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ILOILO City – Panay Electric Co. (PECO) filed a motion for reconsideration urging Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 37 to reconsider its ruling granting MORE Electric...
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Private firms want to operate city’s slaughterhouse

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ILOILO City – There are now eight private firms interested to upgrade and operate the slaughterhouse in Barangay Tacas, Jaro district through a public-private partnership with...
Police Brigadier General Rene Pamuspusan. PN FILE

STL resumption may fuel illegal gambling

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ILOILO City – The resumption of Small Town Lottery (STL) could intensify illegal gambling. That’s because for a hassle-free operation, operators of illegal numbers games such...
Philippine Drug Enforcement Region 6 director Alex Tablate. PN FILE PHOTO

Bolivar’s drug operation crippled down – PDEA-6

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ILOILO City – The operation of the region’s top drug suspect Ernesto “Erning” Bolivar had been crippled down by 80 to 90 percent, according to the Philippine Drug...

Charter Day mass today

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ILOILO City’s 82nd Charter Day celebration climaxes today with an 8 a.m. mass at the Freedom Grandstand. Mayor Jerry Treñas decided to do away with the...
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