Political rivals exploiting Dengvaxia issue – Garin
MANILA – Former Health secretary Janette Garin accused unnamed political rivals in Iloilo of exploiting the Dengvaxia vaccine controversy to hit her family.
The Garins...
Singapore-based firm to study PECO service
ILOILO City – The Iloilo Economic Development Foundation, Inc. (ILED) commissioned a foreign power consulting firm to study the electricity distribution services of Panay...
4 survive pre-dawn ambush in Oton
ILOILO City – Armed men shot a car in Barangay Pakiad, Oton, Iloilo before dawn yesterday then fled.
None from the four persons – a...
GSIS should increase monthly pension, too, says Bacolod dad
BACOLOD City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) wants Congress to pass a bill that would increase the monthly pension of Government Service Insurance System...
1,300 gov’t ‘summer jobbers’ in Bacolod
BACOLOD City – Starting next month, about 1,300 students and out-of-school youths will be working for the city government under the Special Program for...
Over 17T college grads in WV this year – CHED
ILOILO City – Western Visayas has produced over 17,000 college graduates for school year 2017-2018, according to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
These graduates...
IS BORACAY A WAR ZONE?
BY GLENDA TAYONA and PRINCE GOLEZ
ILOILO City – Is the press hazardous to Boracay? Transparency, not media restrictions, is crucial in the rehabilitation of...
Over 1T secure NegOcc’s ‘festival of festivals’
BACOLOD City – Some 1,098 security personnel are deployed to the Panaad Park and Stadium – the main venue for Negros Occidental’s “festival of...
‘New Freedom Grandstand finished before November’
ILOILO City – Two months before this city stages the 2019 Dinagyang Festival, the new Freedom Grandstand on Muelle Loney Street would have been...
Joe orders additional lights, better toilets for ‘Super’
ILOILO City – Mayor Jose Espinosa III ordered improvement s at the Iloilo Terminal Market (popularly called “Super”) following a recent “surprise” visit.
“We really...