BETTER HEALTHCARE: Ejercito launches hospital projects in Iloilo; cites former staff Baronda
ILOILO City – Sen. Joseph Victor Ejercito led the groundbreaking rites for the P600-million Heart and Lung Center of the Western Visayas Medical Center...
9 riding-in-tandem slay cases remain unsolved
ILOILO City – When Senior Superintendent Martin Defensor took over the directorship of the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) on Sept. 12, 2018 he...
Maasin dam’s water drops to critical level
ILOILO City – Water at the dam in Maasin, Iloilo has dropped to critical levels, according to Engineer Rolixto Jodieres Jr., Metro Iloilo Bulk...
Publicity stunt? Espinosa wants to swim in coliform-laden waters
ILOILO City – To dramatize his determination to clean the city’s dirty coastlines, Mayor Jose Espinosa III plans to swim in the city’s waters,...
Iloilo top Region 6 rice producer in 2018
ILOILO – This province was Western Visayas’ top rice producer in 2018, data from the Department of Agriculture (DA) regional office showed.
It produced 939,332...
‘THE HEAT IS ON’: Farmers start feeling brunt of El Niño
ILOILO City – Western Visayas farmers are starting to feel the effects of a mild El Niño, a weather phenomenon characterized by lower than...
Syjuco couple offers to plead guilty in graft case but…
MANILA – Former Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) director general Augusto Syjuco Jr. and wife Judy, former congresswoman of Iloilo’s 2nd District,...
1 dead, 2 wounded in Passi tricycle ambush
ILOILO – Three gunmen on a motorcycle ambushed a tricycle loaded with six persons past midnight yesterday in Barangay Dalicanan, Passi City. One man...
LTO impounds 5 e-bikes; PSTMO vows to follow suit
ILOILO City – Land Transportation Office (LTO) Region 6 impounded five electric bicycles (e-bikes) operating here as passenger transport vehicles.
E-bikes used as such are...
‘High-value’ Antique drug suspect nabbed
ILOILO City – A drug suspect from Antique classified by the police as “high value” was arrested with his girlfriend on MH Del Pilar Street,...