25 WV colleges seek tuition hike

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO – Twenty-five public and private colleges and universities in Western Visayas have expressed intention to increase their tuition and miscellaneous fees...

Four dead on Mother’s Day

BY JUN ARIOLO AGUIRRE and RUBY SILUBRICO KALIBO, Aklan – The happy moments of a family celebrating Mother’s Day in Brgy. Navitas, Numancia, Aklan ended...

P1.4-M BOUNTY FOR 10 WANTED PERSONSPRO-6 seeks public help

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City – Over P1.4 million are being offered for the arrest of 10 wanted persons in Western Visayas. The 10 are not...

MIWD ‘double billing’ slammed

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO – Does Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) have a new bulk water supplier? Homeowners of Savannah subdivision’s Glen C and Glen D projects...

Bingawan aims to industrialize

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA BINGAWAN, Iloilo – Mayor Matt Palabrica wants this municipality of 14,000 inhabitants to industrialize in order to rise above poverty. While it is...

Honesty a tourist attraction, tooAirport workers find tourist’s bag

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO – Two Iloilo Airport employees who returned the bag of a foreign tourist containing a substantial amount of money (in dollars)...

Bamboo vendor kills neighbor 

BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO ANILAO, Iloilo – A bamboo vendor is being hunted by the police for stabbing to death his neighbor during the fiesta...

MARAÑON VS NEDAGuv pissed off by agency’s bucking of ‘Negros Region’

By EUGENE ADIONG MOISES PADILLA, Negros Occidental — The National Economic and Development Authority’s (NEDA) opposition to the planned creation of a one-island Negros region...

STABLE POWER SEEN WITH COAL PLANT

By GLENDA SOLOGASTOA CONCEPCION, Iloilo — The impending presence of the 135-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant of Palm Concepcion Power Corp. (PCPC) here augurs well...

Ombudsman suspends four Janiuay officials

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO – Four officials of Janiuay town were suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman for six months effective this May 4...