Iloilo City gov’t starts mass coronavirus test
ILOILO City – More than 700 city hall employees took coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests yesterday during the first day of mass testing at...
Bacolod PUJ drivers hit suspension of operation
BACOLOD City – Several drivers and operators of public utility jeepneys staged a protest in front of the old city hall appealing for help...
2 Cabatuan ‘seniors’ die of COVID-19
ILOILO – A 65-year-old female and a 60-year-old male residents of Cabatuan town diagnosed with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) died in separate hospitals in...
Virus takes luster off Bacolod’s MassKara
BACOLOD City – For the first time in four decades, this city will not celebrate the world-famous MassKara Festival this October as local authorities...
100 fall for ‘rice scam’ in Bacolod, says NBI
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is urging victims of a rice investment scam in this city to...
P47.6-M ‘shabu’ from Negros seized in Cebu
BY DOMINIQUE GABRIEL BAÑAGA
BACOLOD City – Suspected shabu valued at around P47.6 million was seized in an antidrug operation in Sitio Tipolo Bridge in Cebu City's...
New IPPO chief to Iloilo cops: Serve with discipline, integrity
ILOILO City – Police Colonel Gilbert Gorero, the new Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO) chief, reminded policemen to continue serving the people with dignity,...
Stricter COVID curfew in Talisay City
BACOLOD City – The city government of Talisay in Negros Occidental imposed stricter curfew hours to curb the spike of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases in...
NegOcc cemeteries closed Oct. 30 to Nov. 2
BY GABRIEL DOMINIQUE
BACOLOD City – Gov. Eugenio Lacson cancelled this year’s “Undas” get-together of family and friends.
He ordered the temporary closure of all public...
29 cops dismissed for admin violations
ILOILO City – Twenty-nine police personnel across Western Visayas were dismissed from the police service.
They were part of the 160 police officers slapped with administrative charges...