Oct. 19 still a holiday in Bacolod – Familiaran
BACOLOD City – It is still a nonworking holiday in this city on Oct. 19, clarified Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran.
President Rodrigo Duterte has...
No cop escorts for pols sans Comelec, PNP nods
ILOILO City – Without the approval of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) and Philippine National Police (PNP), no one seeking an elective post this...
‘Baseless’ drug complaint vs Negros execs target voters?
BACOLOD City – A lawyer for two Negros Occidental officials and a businessman insisted that the allegation that his clients were involved in a...
Monthly fuel subsidy for PUJ drivers starting 2019 – DOE
ILOILO City – Drivers of registered public utility jeepneys (PUJs) across the country will get a monthly fuel subsidy from the government starting next...
Love Negros-UNegA merger ‘only for guv, vice guv’
BACOLOD City – The merger between Love Negros and United Negros Alliance (UNegA) – the two political groups in Negros Occidental – is only...
DENR lifts ECC suspension on ‘complying’ Boracay businesses
ILOILO City – A few weeks before the much-awaited reopening of Boracay, Environment secretary Roy Cimatu lifted the suspension of the environmental compliance certificates...
Negrense Colmenares seeks Senate seat anew
MANILA – Former Bayan Muna party-list representative Neri Colmenares took another chance to land a Senate seat as he filed his certificate of candidacy...
Iloilo City Comelec wary of poll fraud, violence
ILOILO City – As the Commission on Elections (Comelec) in this city starts accepting certificates of candidacy (COC) for the May 13, 2019 midterm...
7.9 hectares of Boracay agri land for Ati farmers
ILOILO City – Eight landholdings having a total land area of 7.9640 hectares in Barangay Manoc-Manoc, Boracay Island have been identified as agricultural and...
Espinosa SP allies Peñaredondo, Gerochi stripped of committees
ILOILO City – Citing “loss of control and confidence”, majority of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) members stripped councilors Eduardo Peñaredondo and R Leone Gerochi...