Transport group warns of TRAIN fare hike
BY CAROLYN JANE ABELLO
ILOILO City – The Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN) of the Duterte administration will likely result to higher public...
NO PHONE SIGNAL? Cellphone jamming during Dinagyang mulled
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – As a security preemptive measure for the 2018 edition of the Dinagyang Festival, telecommunications companies may be asked again...
Taxis find dashcams, GPS unnecessary
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – Taxi drivers in Western Visayas find two new requirements imposed by the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board...
Rules on sand, gravel quarrying tightened
BY CAROLYN JANE ABELLO
ILOILO – The provincial government has prohibited the extraction, loading, hauling, and transporting of sand and gravel during bad weather in...
Road obstructions demolished
BY CAROLYN JANE ABELLO
ILOILO City – Illegal structures on Ybiernas Street, City Proper were demolished.
The city government’s Public Safety and Transportation Management Office (PSTMO)...
MABILOG FOREVER DISQUALIFIED Another dismissal order vs Jed for towing deal
BY PRINCE GOLEZ and ADRIAN STEWART CO
MANILA – The Office of the Ombudsman has again perpetually disqualified former mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog from holding...
Gun-toting barangay tanods face arrest
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – Barangay tanods (village watchmen) are prohibited from carrying firearms, licensed or not, while on duty. They are only...
City hall employee in buy-bust risks losing job
BY CAROLYN JANE ABELLO
ILOILO City – A utility personnel of the city government’s General Services Office arrested in an antidrug operation of the police...
Badiangan ‘kagawad’ faces raps over drugs, loose guns
BY IAN PAUL CORDERO
ILOILO City – Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 6 operatives arrested a barangay kagawad and his helper in Sinuagan, Badiangan,...
Mandurriao woman survives strafing
BY IAN PAUL CORDERO
ILOILO City – Mae Arne Meniel was urinating in their toilet in Barangay Calajunan, Mandurriao district at around 11:05 p.m. on Tuesday...