MIWD DEFIES JOE Water district seals P12-B deal with joint venture partner
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) pushed through with its P12.349-billion water distribution joint venture with a private company despite...
Mayor hit for water district ‘meddling’
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Can Mayor Jose Espinosa III interfering in the operation of Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD)?
He has no authority to...
P1.6-M seahorses, seadragons seized
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – An estimated P1.6-million worth of rare seahorses, seadragons and seashells were intercepted in Barangay Poblacion Zone 1, Estancia,...
3 drug-cleared barangays to get cash aid
ILOILO City – The city government will give cash incentives to three barangays that were declared as drug-cleared by the Regional Oversight Committee on...
12 hurt in Miag-ao 3-vehicle smash-up
BY RUBY P. SILUIBRICO
ILOILO City – Twelve persons were injured in a road accident involving three motor vehicles – a pickup, tricycle and van...
WATER RATE HIKE Espinosa blasts MIWD for not informing public of plan
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) is seeking a 26 percent increase in its water rate but the city government...
Safe, clean plazas get archbishop’s nod
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Now free from ukay-ukay, food and other stalls, public plazas such as that of Jaro district have impressed  the...
DILG hails Iloilo City as ‘best performing’ in WV
ILOILO City – This city has been hailed as the best among other cities in Western Visayas during the 2017 Excellence in Local Governance...
Drilon critic indicted for ‘libelous’ Facebook posts
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – The Pasay City Prosecutor’s Office indicted former Iloilo provincial administrator and journalist Manuel Mejorada for five counts of libel.
Sen....
PDEA busts 6 in Arevalo antidrug op
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – Five drug suspects were cornered at a lodge in Barangay Sto. Niño Norte, Arevalo district.
The following were detained at...