TAXIS JOIN CALL FOR FARE HIKE
BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA
ILOILO City – Taxis have joined the call of passenger jeepneys in this city for an increase in fares, citing the...
High-profile Negros drug suspects fall
BY MAE SINGUAY and CYRUS GARDE
BACOLOD City – A village official here and two scions of prominent families in Negros Occidental fell into a...
Will coal plant hurt Concepcion islands?
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO – Concepcion, Iloilo’s Mayor Millard Villanueva dismissed the claim of environmentalists that the newly-inaugurated coal-fired power plant in his coastal municipality...
City’s P2.08-B budget OK’d
BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA
ILOILO City – The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) approved the city government’s Executive Annual Budget for 2017 amounting to P2,089,960,758.
The 2017 budget...
BIG-TIME OIL PRICE HIKE
BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA
ILOILO City – Prices of gasoline, diesel and kerosene soar by more than a peso today. Hard-up jeepney drivers are seeking...
‘Marce’ leaves Iloilo P410-M poorer
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO – Tropical storm “Marce” left this province P410,778,060 poorer in damaged infrastructures, agriculture and fisheries.
The damage to infrastructures – roads, pubic...
Marañon not keen on coal plant, unless…
BY TIFFANY ANNE TAN and DARYL LASAFIN
BACOLOD City – Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr. is not keen on the reported plan of Global Business Power...
Duterte: PH needs more power plants
BY PRINCE GOLEZ, Manila Reporter
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte believes the Philippines needs more power plants.
With the country facing challenges in electricity supply, power...
VISAYAS GETS ENERGY BOOST
MANILA – President Rodrigo Duterte is inaugurating today the Palm Concepcion Power Corp.’s (PCPC) 135-megawatt circulating fluidized bed combustion (CFBC) power plant in Barangay...
Bing reinstates 10 city hall workers
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – Ten city hall employees whose appointments then mayor Monico Puentevella revoked early this year were reinstated.
Mayor Evelio Leonardia effected...