![“The Pharmally case... there are 46 respondents [in our complaint], kaya medyo matagal. And many of them have become invisible. Para bang they're trying to evade the jurisdiction of this body,” says Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla.](https://www.panaynews.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/plunder_copy_resized_resized-218x150.jpg "Ombudsman presses P11-B Pharmally plunder case But 23 respondents missing— Remulla")
Bacolod police warn MassKara criminals
BACOLOD City – The Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) warned the public of individuals who might take advantage of the ongoing MassKara Festival to...
Rights groups to probe massacre of ‘Sagay 9’
BACOLOD City – Human rights groups will conduct a “multisectoral independent investigation” into the attack that led to the death of nine sugar workers...
PECO hopes to overturn Poe panel’s position
ILOILO City – What’s Panay Electric Company’s (PECO) next move?
Its application for franchise renewal (House Bill No. 6023) submitted in July last year yet...
9 sugar workers massacred in Sagay City hacienda
BY RANIE AZUE and CYRUS GARDE
BACOLOD City – Nine sugar workers – two of them minors – were killed. Armed men gunned them down...
Treñas deadpans tirade of ex-mayor Mabilog
ILOILO City – Did Cong. Jerry Treñas abandon then mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog at the most difficult time of his political ally as claimed...
Over 3,000 push-ups, squats by ‘Master of Pain’ for hospital aid
PAVIA, Iloilo – The “Master of Pain” alternated hand release push-ups and air squats repeatedly for four hours in a mall in this municipality...
No total ban on ‘paraw’ in Boracay, clarifies DENR
BORACAY – Island hopping and sailboat (paraw) activities in this world-famous island will not be totally banned, according to the Environment department.
They will only...
Salcedo scion hits police ‘overkill’
ILOILO – An “overkill” was how a daughter of former Sara, Iloilo mayor Neptali Salcedo described Wednesday’s predawn gun raid of her father’s house.
Policemen...
Bacolod VM backs mandatory drug test for poll bets
BACOLOD City – Who’s afraid of a drug test? Not Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran.
That was what Familiaran claimed as he expressed supposed to...
Sara mayor cleared but hubby faces illegal gun raps
ILOILO – Mayor Ermelita Salcedo of the municipality of Sara was released several hours after she was taken into police custody when her house...