MASSKARA CHALLENGE ‘Wear mask during entire festival’
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – This city’s famous MassKara Festival runs for 19 days beginning Oct. 1.
People here have been urged to wear masks...
Malones obliged to reinstate, pay illegally fired employee
BYÂ GLENDAÂ SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Win or lose in the complaint filed against him before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), Maasin, Iloilo’s Mayor Mariano Malones is obliged...
Explain sports fiasco, DepEd-Iloilo told
BYÂ GLENDAÂ SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. vowed to resolve the controversy hounding the participation and total loss of two teams of Ilongga girls...
JEEPNEY FALLS OFF BRIDGE 20 passengers injured
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – A passenger jeepney bound for this city from the town of Miag-ao, Iloilo fell off a bridge in...
Student’s death puzzles cops
BY CYRUS M. GARDE
BACOLOD City – The death of a third year high school student here has policemen wondering.
Was 15-year-old John Kurt Flores of...
Global shared services org to open in Iloilo
BY RAYMART ESCOPEL
ILOILO City – Information technology (IT) is taking the modern world by storm, allowing easier access to information and improved standard of...
4 groups back water district privatization
By PRINCE GOLEZ
Manila Reporter
MANILA — Business groups, village officials and a state college were rallying behind the proposal to privatize Metro Iloilo Water District...
Newks, traffic chief face graft raps
By MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City — Mayor Monico Puentevella and Bacolod Traffic Authority Office (BTAO) head Reynaldo Ebreo were facing charges for violation of the...
TAX-FREE BONUS LOOMS House committee OKs Treñas bill
BY PRINCE GOLEZ
Manila Reporter
MANILA – A very merry Christmas may come early for government employees if the bill seeking to exempt their bonuses from...
MERS-CoV kills Negrense nurse
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – A 45-year-old nurse who died of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome – Corona Virus (MERS-CoV) in Saudi Arabia had been...