Murcia ma tests negative for Zika

BY TIFFANY ANNE TAN BACOLOD City – The mother from Murcia, Negros Occidental who gave birth to a child with microcephaly tested negative for Zika. The...

Arevalo pupil wins poster-making tilt

BY RESEL JOY TIANERO A PUPIL of Sto. Domingo Elementary School in Arevalo, Iloilo City won a regional government-organized on-the-spot poster-making competition. Ashley Fuentebella bested 14...

‘THEY CAN’T RUN, HIDE FOREVER’

BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA ILOILO City – An official of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) warned suspected big-time drug personality Richard Prevendido and his...

26 Bacolod brgy execs linked to drugs

BY MAE SINGUAY BACOLOD City – Five barangay captains and 21 councilmen were linked to illegal drugs. “Their names were already with the (Liga ng mga...

Stores warned vs fake cigarettes

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City – Cigarette companies sought the help of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG). Fake cigarettes were proliferating in Western...

BILIBID PALS

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City – Jesus “Jing-jing” Espinosa Jr., barangay councilman of Monica-Blumentritt, City Proper, denied working for suspected drug lord Melvin “Boyet” Odicta...

NegOcc widens crackdown on fake products

BY TIFFANY ANNE TAN BACOLOD City – Capitol officials were looking to expand its crackdown on fake commodities spreading in Negros Occidental. A distributors’ representative told...

Iloilo’s Zika cases now at 12 – DOH

MANILA – Three new local transmission cases of Zika virus infection were confirmed by the Department of Health (DOH) yesterday. Health secretary Paulyn Jean Rosell-Ubial...

‘I WILL SERVE MY SENTENCE’

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA and JOSELITO VILLASIS ILOILO City – Two days after policemen raided his house in Barangay Monica-Blumentritt, City Proper for shabu and guns,...

Murcia mom gets tested for Zika

BY TIFFANY ANNE TAN BACOLOD City – A mother from Murcia, Negros Occidental who recently gave birth to a child with microcephaly was suspected to...