BFP mulls door-to-door search for fire-prone boardinghouses
ILOILO City – The Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) is girding for a door-to-door inspection of houses and boardinghouses here.
This campaign is in line with...
Ilongga nun from Molo on path to sainthood
ILOILO City – Ilongga nun Maria Beatriz del Rosario Arroyo, known fondly as Madre Sayong or Mother Rosario, is another step closer to sainthood.
Madre...
Control over seaport fare scheme mulled
BACOLOD City – The Bacolod Real Estate Development Corp. (Bredco) plans to regulate the fare scheme at the Simplicio Palanca Seaport Terminal in this...
Election period, gun ban end; violators reach 529
ILOILO City – The election period has ended, and so has the election gun ban.
A total of 529 violators were arrested from Jan. 13...
Dengue cases surge, blood supply drops
ILOILO – Dengue cases here are rising while the local Philippine Red Cross blood bank’s blood stocks are dwindling.
The Provincial Health Office (PHO) finds...
Iloilo not lucrative to sex workers anymore?
ILOILO City – The number of commercial sex workers in this southern city has dwindled, according to the city government’s Task Force on Morals...
Traffic gridlock as private schools reopen
ILOILO City – While public elementary and high schools resumed classes Monday last week, their private counterparts here resumed theirs only yesterday.
There was a...
‘MIWD violated bulk water supply contract’
ILOILO City – Bulk water supplier Flo Water Resources, Inc. has accused Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) of violating their bulk water supply contract...
Goods from countries with African swine flu outbreak destroyed
ILOILO City – Authorities have destroyed canned and processed meat products confiscated from inbound passengers at two international airports in Panay. The products were...
Bacolod dad hits Baciwa: ‘Show transparency’
BACOLOD City – Councilor Wilson Gamboa Jr. demanded transparency from the Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) amid the controversy hounding the water district’s proposed joint...