30 high-value PDEA drug targets nabbed
ILOILO City – Since January, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Region 6 managed to arrest 30 high-value targets (HVTs).
They were part of...
50 mayors face raps before Environmental Ombudsman
BACOLOD City – A total of 50 mayors nationwide are now facing charges before the Office of the Environmental Ombudsman for violation of Republic...
DAR’s ‘biggest ever’ land distribution ‘just for show’
BACOLOD City – The distribution of 1,940 Certificate of Land Ownership Awards (CLOAs) covering 1,823.55 hectares of agricultural land in Negros Island was “just...
MALAY LGU SPURNS ‘BIG EVENTS’
ILOILO City – Expect a more subdued and a less garbage-generating “LaBoracay” in the world-famous Boracay as the island struggles to overcome wastewater pollution...
‘Service water must be free, clean, safe’
ILOILO City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) has approved on final reading an ordinance that requires foodservice establishments to serve free potable water to...
COA lifts disallowance on Iloilo capitol’s 2013 PEI
ILOILO – The Commission on Audit (COA) has lifted the Notice of Disallowance (ND) it issued on the 2013 Productivity Enhancement Incentive (PEI) amounting...
300 Region 6 villages may be declared ‘drug-cleared’
ILOILO City – An estimated 300 barangays in Western Visayas may be declared “drug-cleared” this first quarter of 2018, according to the Philippine Drug...
Capitol produces summa, magna, cum laude grads
ILOILO – Seventy-nine college scholars of the provincial government are graduating this month.
One of them would be graduating with the highest honor – summa...
‘Rice block farming goes with farm mechanization’
BACOLOD City –The plan to introduce rice block farming in Negros Occidental is seen to complement the efforts of the Office of the Provincial...
Agri dep’t orders humane slaughtering of animals
BACOLOD City – All animal establishments in the city are urged to followthe Department of Agriculture’s (DA) Administrative Order No. 18 series of 2008.
The...