No more hospital arrest for Antique’s ex-guv
BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
MANILA – The Sandiganbayan ordered the transfer of former Antique governor Jovito Plameras Jr. from the Angel Salazar Memorial General Hospital...
BETTER SURFACE, JING-JING TOLD
BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA and RUBY SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – Where is barangay councilman and drug suspect Jesus “Jing-jing” Espinosa Jr. of Barangay Monica-Blumentritt, City...
Duterte’s Bacolod City audience paid to listen?
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – The city government and Partido Demokratiko Pilipino – Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) denied paying people to listen to President...
HIV-AIDS cases in city now at 347
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Cases of Human Immunodeficiency Virus / Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) infections has been increasing, city government data showed.
The...
DUTERTE: I’M SORRY
BY TIFFANY ANNE TAN
BACOLOD City – For equating his intensified war against illegal drugs to Adolf Hitler’s extermination of Jews during World War II,...
Jing-jing’s house raided; cops find shabu, guns
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – Policemen raided the four-storey house of barangay councilman and drug suspect Jesus “Jing-jing” Espinosa Jr. early morning yesterday...
Illegal gambling raid questioned
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – The Regional Special Operations Unit (RSOU) of the Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) is in “hot water.”
Its operatives...
PRIVACY OVER PUBLIC SAFETY?
BY MERIANNE GRACE EREÑETA
ILOILO City – Who’s afraid of the proposed registration of prepaid Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards?
Ilonggos randomly interviewed by this paper...
Duterte opens MassKara fest today
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – Today, President Rodrigo Duterte will officially open the 37th MassKara Festival at the Bacolod Public Plaza at 4 p.m.
Several...
‘Retazo’ and broken things
BY RHICK LARS VLADIMERALBAY
THE furniture maker’s son gathers the unused timber scattered around his father’s small workshop – the discarded remains of the day’s...