Tornado-hit homes in Oton climb to 97
ILOILO – The number of houses damaged by an early morning tornado on Jan. 3 in two barangays in Oton town rose to 97.
Fifteen...
Bacolod fire incidents drop by one in 2022
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – The number of fire incidents here in 2022 dropped by one, based on data released by the...
Iloilo City to hire 100 more traffic aides
ILOILO CITY – The city government will hire 100 more traffic auxiliaries to manage the traffic in the city’s thoroughfares including in the Ungka...
2022 WV crime volume down
ILOILO City – From January to December of 2022, crimes in Western Visayas reached 2,783 cases – an 8.66 percent drop from the 3,047...
Iloilo City to relaunch drive vs noisy mufflers
ILOILO City – This city’s Public Safety and Transportation Management Office (PSTMO) is relaunching the campaign against noisy mufflers.
PSTMO head Jeck Conlu said their...
Passengers flock at BREDCO as work resumes
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – More than a thousand passengers flocked at BREDCO port in this city on Monday morning, Jan. 2,...
Classes in Bacolod public schools to resume on Jan. 4
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL G. BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Classes in public schools here resume on Jan. 4.
Teachers, however, are returning to work on Jan. 3,...
Treñas warns traffic aides anew
ILOILO City – Mayor Jerry P. Treñas has again warned traffic aides not doing their job.
Information reached him that some traffic aides were not...
‘We need to share in Rizal’s intellectual audacity’
ILOILO City – “As we continue to evolve in the present, so must we revisit the story of how we came to be as...
ASF infects 62 Iloilo villages
ILOILO – A total of 62 barangays from nine towns in this province recorded African Swine Fever (ASF) infections as of Dec. 29.
Oton, the...