![“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")
Love Negros-UNegA merger ‘only for guv, vice guv’
BACOLOD City – The merger between Love Negros and United Negros Alliance (UNegA) – the two political groups in Negros Occidental – is only...
DENR lifts ECC suspension on ‘complying’ Boracay businesses
ILOILO City – A few weeks before the much-awaited reopening of Boracay, Environment secretary Roy Cimatu lifted the suspension of the environmental compliance certificates...
Negrense Colmenares seeks Senate seat anew
MANILA – Former Bayan Muna party-list representative Neri Colmenares took another chance to land a Senate seat as he filed his certificate of candidacy...
Iloilo City Comelec wary of poll fraud, violence
ILOILO City – As the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in this city starts accepting certificates of candidacy (COC) for the May 13, 2019 midterm...
7.9 hectares of Boracay agri land for Ati farmers
ILOILO City – Eight landholdings having a total land area of 7.9640 hectares in Barangay Manoc-Manoc, Boracay Island have been identified as agricultural and...
Espinosa SP allies Peñaredondo, Gerochi stripped of committees
ILOILO City – Citing “loss of control and confidence”, majority of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) members stripped councilors Eduardo Peñaredondo and R Leone Gerochi...
Filing of COC for 2019 polls starts tomorrow
ILOILO City – The five-day period for the filing of certificates of candidacy (COC) for the May 2019 midterm elections starts tomorrow, Oct. 11.
The...
647 new cops: ‘Be part of the solution, not the problem’
ILOILO City – After six months of rigid screening, 647 new police officers took their oath at the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) headquarters...
Dinagyang 2019: Subsidy for tribes increased to P1.2M
ILOILO City – The subsidy for each participating tribe in the 2019 Iloilo Dinagyang Festival would be increased to P1.2 million.
Mayor Jose Espinosa III...
Cops warned vs ‘planting evidence’ on drug suspects
ILOILO City – Policemen planting evidence on drug suspects face criminal charges, said Chief Superintendent John Bulalacao, Western Visayas police director.
“Dapat kung ano ang...