Ombudsman suspends mayor for coconut farm demolition
BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
MANILA – The Office of the Ombudsman slapped Caluya, Antique mayor Genevive Lim-Reyes with a six-month suspension for demolishing a coconut...
Agri chief warns WV mayors vs scammers
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Agriculture secretary Emmanuel “Manny” Piñol warned Western Visayas mayors against falling to persons pretending to be affiliated with the...
ICPO opens 2 emergency hotlines
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – The Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) has launched two telephone hotlines where the public that call or send text...
‘THEY’RE HIDING’ 38 drug suspects vanish
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – What should policemen do if they could no longer find their target drug personalities?
Easy. Remove these drug personalities from...
Majority of IDJ inmates have drug cases
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – Sixty percent of inmates at the Iloilo District Jail (IDJ) in Barangay Nanga, Pototan, Iloilo have drug-related cases.
IDJ...
Lapuz district cockpit a squatter?
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – The owner of the lot in Barangay Don Esteban, Lapuz district where the Rockwell Lumber and Cockpit Arena stands...
Drug coddlers in the villages – PDEA, ICPO
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – Drug personalities enjoy protection from some barangay captains and councilmen, according to the city police and Philippine Drug Enforcement...
Driver accuses 2 cops of threats
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – Two police officers of Dueñas, Iloilo’s police station face possible criminal and administrative charges.
Thirty-nine-year-old tricycle driver John Pauya...
WHOSE HEADS WILL ROLL? STL suspended in 5 towns as illegal gambling persists
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO – The 15-day ultimatum for police chiefs to stamp out illegal gambling in their respective turfs ended yesterday. Have illegal numbers...
PDEA-6 chief praises Mabilog’s ‘drug war’
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – What happened a year after President Rodrigo Duterte branded Iloilo as the “most shabu-lized” in the country?
According to the...