Nothing new in junked Sucaldito appeal
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO – Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. found nothing new in the motion for reconsideration that Soledad Sucaldito filed against the recommendation to...
Cops in NegOr NPA ambush lose guns
BY CYRUS GARDE
BACOLOD City – The firearms of the six policemen who died in an ambush in Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental were missing.
They were...
Aquino on indictment: Erroneous, meritless
BY ADRIAN STEWART CO
MANILA – “Patently erroneous and bereft of any merit” was how former president Benigno Aquino III described the Office of the...
REDS MOCK RODY | 6 cops killed in Negros NPA ambush
BY CYRUS GARDE
BACOLOD City – A day after President Rodrigo Duterte announced he no longer wanted to talk to communists due to the rebels’...
Panay railway not in gov’t infra program
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO City – The proposed revival of Panay Island’s railway system has not been included in the “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure program...
‘Hulbot’ fishers caught off Concepcion waters
ILOILO – Fifteen fishermen from Negros Occidental were caught using the forbidden trawlboat, a modified Danish seine, in the marine waters off Baliguian Island...
‘GHOST PROJECTS’ | Tupas charged over P5M ‘pork scam’
BY PRINCE GOLEZ
MANILA – The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered the filing of graft and malversation charges against former Iloilo congressman Niel “Jun-jun”...
Bacolod councilors seek vandals’ arrest
BY MAE SINGUAY
BACOLOD City – “With all the powers expressly granted by law,” the Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) and the Office of the...
Batad mayor faces graft raps for wife’s ice plant permits
BY PRINCE GOLEZ
MANILA – Upon the order of the Office of the Ombudsman, Mayor Pedro Alarcon of Batad, Iloilo is set to face graft...
No illegal drugs in Bingawan?
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – All of Bingawan, Iloilo’s 14 barangays never had illegal drug problems so the municipality was declared drug-free, according...