Mayor Rufino Palabrica III

Sandiganbayan convicts Dingle mayor for graft

ILOILO – The Sandiganbayan’s Special Sixth Division has convicted for graft Mayor Rufino Palabrica III of the municipality of Dingle. The anti-graft court found Palabrica guilty of violating...
Iloilo City Hall. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

New city hall policy: name, shame erring departments

ILOILO City – Hoping to make city government departments more efficient, Mayor Jerry Treñas announced he would be publicly calling out erring offices after every Monday...
A Philippine Marine officer aims his rifle as he and other Marines head to militant positions in Marawi City on May 30, 2017, three days after martial law was declared in Mindanao. AFP

300 SAF troops off to Negros

MANILA – Following the spate of killings in Negros Island, the Philippine National Police (PNP) has ordered the deployment of over 300 elite Special Action Force (SAF)...

Mobile app tackling sex, HIV, targets teens

ILOILO City – A locally-designed mobile application on adolescent health is providing teens with the right information on adolescent reproductive health and development. Among others, the...
Negros Occidental police director Colonel Romeo Baleros. PNA

Nocppo seals borders to stop violence spillover

BACOLOD City – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office is tightly securing the province’s boundary to prevent the spillover of violence from neighboring Negros Oriental – where four...

Schools take action: ‘Brigada Kontra Dengue’ today

ILOILO – Today, the provincial government and Department of Education (DepEd) are spearheading a synchronized school cleanup against dengue mosquitoes. “Brigada Kontra Dengue” involves parents, teachers, barangay officials,...

Vallacar prexy urges union leaders: Reconsider strike

BACOLOD City – New Vallacar Transit Inc. president Roy Yanson urged labor union leaders to “sit down and discuss” matters with him instead of staging a...

‘Include leptospirosis in dengue cleanup drive’

ILOILO City – Leptospirosis has claimed 11 lives in Western Visayas as of July 6, data from the Department of Health (DOH) showed. The 11 were...
A REFUGEE CAMP? No. This is the gymnasium of Maasin, Iloilo. It has been temporarily converted into a mini hospital to accommodate dengue patients. The municipality’s rural health unit is already packed with patients. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Iloilo City records 251 new dengue cases in a week; State of calamity declaration...

ILOILO City – In just a week 251 new dengue cases were recorded here, according to the City Health Office (CHO). “Based sa mga figures nga...
Panay Electric Co., the sole power distributor in Iloilo City for the past 95 years, has vowed exhaust all legal remedies to protect its assets. Though its franchise expired in January this year, it has been allowed to operate by the Energy Regulatory Commission via a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. PECO’s office is on General Luna Street, Iloilo City. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Top official leaves PECO

ILOILO City – The assistant vice president for operations of Panay Electric Co. (PECO) has retired. Six months after PECO’s franchise as power distributor here expired...