NO MORE FLOODS BY 2018 – JED
BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA
ILOILO City – The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) is undertaking another drainage project that promises to solve the...
Baciwa Board nixes joint venture plan
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – Bacolod City Water District’s (Baciwa) Board of Directors rejected the proposed joint venture with MetroPac Water Investments Corp.
It heeded...
Drugs bug over half of WV brgys – PRO-6
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – Of the 2,389 villages in Western Visayas, 1,944 or 57 percent are drug-affected, according to the Police Regional...
PRO-6 examines substance seized from Iloilo prov’l jail
BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA
ILOILO City – Were the white crystalline substance seized recently from the inmates of the Iloilo District Jail (IDJ) in Barangay...
ILOILO-WIDE ‘CRACKER BAN?
ILOILO – People should find other means to celebrate the holidays without using firecrackers.
The Provincial Health Office (PHO) is proposing a firecracker ban throughout...
1,050 city drivers hurdle drug test
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – A total of 1,050 jeepney and taxi drivers in this city took and passed their drug tests at...
‘Do not misuse power to arrest’
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Barangay captains deputized by the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to catch violators of traffic rules and regulations – especially...
HOUSING FOR SQUATTERS
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Around 300 informal settler families may soon have their own houses under the mass housing project of the city...
DOTr gets Panay railway study offers
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – The Department of Transportation (DOTr) has received proposals for a feasibility study on the planned revival of Panay Island’s...
Bacolod justifying waster collector’s failure – city dad
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – A councilor claimed the city government was “biased” toward its contracted garbage collector.
The Department of Public Services (DPS) justified...