6 arrested in PDEA Sambag buy-bust
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
Friday, November 17, 2017
ILOILO City – Six persons were arrested in a buy-bust operation of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)...
DO YOU HAVE BILLIONS? Gov’t takeover ambitious, says PECO
ILOILO City – The proposed government takeover of the sole power distribution utility in this city is easier said than done, according to the...
P11.2-B mega dam may start next year
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – The construction of the P11.2-billion Jalaur River Multipurpose Project (JRMP) Phase 2 in Calinog, Iloilo will most likely start...
Defensor a big loss to LP, says Robredo
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Iloilo’s Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. who is soon taking his oath as member of President Rodrigo Duterte’s political party...
P.4-million shabu seized; 6 drug suspects arrested
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) arrested six persons and seized shabu worth P460,000 from a boardinghouse in...
Fire strikes Pavia high school; 15 hospitalized
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – Fifteen high school students and two teachers of Pavia National High School fell ill and were hospitalized.
They had...
SP: DON’T RENEW PECO FRANCHISE
ILOILO City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed a resolution “vehemently opposing” the renewal of Panay Electric Company’s (PECO) franchise and calling on the...
Who’s behind proliferation of Badjao beggars? 30 rounded up in Day 2 of ‘Oplan...
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Are there groups or individuals behind the proliferation of Badjao mendicants in this city?
The chief of Mandurriao district’s police...
PRO-6 open to local peace talks with Reds
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) is open to having a localized peace negotiation with the New People’s...
Syjuco charged with graft over P5-M agri project
BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
MANILA – The Office of the Ombudsman accused former Iloilo 2nd District congressman Augusto Syjuco Jr. of graft before the Sandiganbayan...