Chinese vessels docking at Semirara Island?

ILOILO City – Have Chinese vessels been docking at the port of Semirara Island in Caluya, Antique notwithstanding the enhanced community quarantine? Gov. Rhodora Cadiao...
Gov. Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr.

Defensor mulls post-ECQ virus containment measures

ILOILO – The enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in this province is scheduled to end on April 30. Will there be an extension? Today, Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr....

Negros Occ. records 2nd COVID-19 case

BACOLOD City – A 43-year-old resident of La Castellana town is the latest confirmed case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Negros Occidental. Gov. Eugenio Jose...

Pandan, Antique records 3 new COVID-19 cases; WV virus cases breach 50 mark

ILOILO City – Three more persons from Pandan, Antique tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In COVID-19 Case Bulletin No....

Tears of joy as Pavia couple negative in repeat virus test

ILOILO – The couple who became Pavia town’s first confirmed cases of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) broke down in tears after hearing the news about their...
Residents of Barangay Punong, Lapuz, Iloilo City receive their cash grants of P6,000 under the government’s Social Amelioration Program for economically displaced individuals due to the coronavirus disease pandemic. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

‘Social amelioration cash not for illegal gambling’

ILOILO City – The Police Regional Office 6 (PRO-6) vowed to run after persons using the financial assistance from the national government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP)...

Gov’t troops overrun NPA training camp; 1 rebel killed, 11 others captured

ILOILO – Troops of the Philippine Army 3rd Infantry Division’s (3ID) 61st Infantry Battalion (61IB) overran a New People’s Army (NPA) recruitment and training camp in...

3 soldiers killed, 4 others wounded in Negros clash

BACOLOD City – Three soldiers were killed and four others were wounded in an encounter with suspected News People’s Army (NPA) rebels yesterday morning in Barangay...
A resident of Zone 2B, Barangay Balabago, Jaro, Iloilo City points to the chimney of a crematorium. She and other village residents say the smell of the smoke from the crematorium has become unbearable. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Crematory’s ‘foul smell’ upsets brgy residents

ILOILO City – Over a hundred families in Zone 2B, Barangay Balabago, Jaro district complained they could not stand the foul smell of the smoke emitted...

23 more WV LGUs receive social amelioration fund

ILOILO City – Twenty-three more local government units (LGUs) in Western Visayas received Social Amelioration Program (SAP) funds from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)...