Quake alert: OCD orders region-wide check of infras
ILOILO City – The Office of Civil Defense (OCD) in Western Visayas ordered a region-wide structural integrity assessment of roads and bridges, schools, government...
6.5 earthquake jolts Visayas
BY ADRIAN STEWART CO, IME SORNITO and GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – A magnitude 6.5 earthquake of tectonic origin rocked the municipality of San Julian...
‘State of calamity’ mulled; villages fear water scarcity
ILOILO City – The City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) has agreed to recommend placing this city under a state of calamity.
Dry...
El Niño-hit farmers seek rice subsidy
ILOILO – Suffering from the adverse effects of the El Niño phenomenon, a group of farmers appealed for rice subsidy and other assistance from...
New Panay road seen to boost agri-ecotourism
ILOILO City – When completed, the new 41-kilometer Panay East-West Lateral Road connecting central and northern Iloilo to the provinces of Antique and Capiz...
Iloilo hopes to cash in on ‘faith tourism’
ILOILO – Religious tourism is a type of tourism motivated by religious reasons. It can also be referred to as faith tourism or spiritual...
High-powered guns seized from rebels
ILOILO – After a five-minute encounter with New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in Barangay Masaroy, Calinog town early morning yesterday, troops of the Philippine...
NBI help mulled vs ‘Super’ racketeers
ILOILO City – Some people are illegally making money at the Iloilo Terminal Market, popularly known as “Super”, according to Mayor Jose Espinosa III...
Duterte warns new Region 6 drug lord: ‘He’ll die like Odicta’
MANILA – Slain Western Visayas drug lord Melvin Odicta Sr. has a successor and President Rodrigo Duterte is not pleased.
In a speech at a...
Boboy Tupas values public consultations
5TH DISTRICT, Iloilo – “The only way to know the real needs of the people is to spend time talking to them and listening...