WV still ASF-free but on heightened alert
ILOILO City – Western Visayas remains safe from the African swine fever (ASF) despite the detection of this highly contagious hemorrhagic viral disease on...
Iloilo City ready for DILG road clearing evaluation
ILOILO City – The Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) extended by one week the deadline for local government units (LGUs) to clear...
119 measles cases in Iloilo in 2020 – PHO
ILOILO – The Provincial Health Office recorded 119 suspected cases of measles last year.
The municipality of Concepcion had the most number of cases at...
Fresh attempts to railroad Charter change slammed
ILOILO City – Can the House of Representatives’ committee on constitutional amendments convene itself into a constituent assembly without a concurrent resolution passed separately...
Hundreds flee floods in San Carlos City
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Hundreds of individuals fled their inundated homes after a heavy downpour triggered flooding in five barangays of San Carlos City, Negros Occidental over the weekend.
Mayor Renato...
Defensor getting first jab of COVID vaccine
ILOILO – Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. is willing to be inoculated first with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine to boost the public’s confidence in the...
Bacolod getting 650K doses of AstraZeneca vaccines
BACOLOD City – “A giant leap towards our vaccination goals.” This was the statement of Mayor Evelio Leonardia after the city government secured 650,000 doses...
Double your money in Capiz? Roxas denies ties to scheme
ROXAS City – Former Interior secretary Mar Roxas denied endorsing any investment or financial product, program, service or business in Capiz.
In a statement, Roxas...
BJMP seeks jail transfer of Rojas slay suspect
ILOILO City – The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) Region 6 wants to shorten the hospital detention of the principal suspect in...
Alijis man shot to death inside house
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGABACOLOD City – Officers of Police Station 7 are still trying to identify three gunmen who killed a 59-year-old resident of...