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Twenty-two-year-old Shawn Agregado faces a string of charges for illegally recruiting Philippine Coast Guard members. NBI REGION 6

Soldier who went AWOL nabbed over recruitment scam

ILOILO City – Estafa. Usurpation of authority. Illegal possession of firearm. These were the charges filed against a dismissed member of the Armed Forces of the Philippines...

Minor, 2 men fall in Mandurriao drug op

ILOILO City – Three individuals – one of them a minor – believed to be drug couriers were arrested in a police operation in Barangay San...
Colonel Marlon Tayaba, the current director of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office, could be the chief of the directorial staff and deputy regional director for operation of the Police Regional Office 6. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

‘1 of 2 vacant PRO-6 posts awaits Tayaba’

ILOILO City – Colonel Marlon Tayaba, the current director of the Iloilo Police Provincial Office (IPPO), might land in one of the two vacant positions in...

Army foils Reds’ plan to recruit fighters plans of rebels in Capiz

ILOILO City –The 61st Infantry Battalion (61IB) of the Philippine Army foiled the recruitment plans of the New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) after an armed encounter in...

Free treatment for poor dengue patients but
 HOSPITALS RUNNING OUT OF BEDS

BY IME SORNITO and IAN PAUL CORDERO ILOILO – All district hospitals being run by the provincial government have been ordered to extend free services to...

NEDA sets higher growth target for WV in 2019

ILOILO City – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) set a 6.5 percent growth target for Western Visayas this year, higher than the 6.1 percent...

P5.9-M ‘Pag-ulikid’ food expenses questioned

ILOILO City – What was the priority of the so-called “Pag-ulikid” community outreach program of the previous Espinosa administration?  Mayor Jerry Treñas asked the question as...
Mayor Jerry Treñas. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

‘Treñas the sole city gov’t spokesperson’

ILOILO City – Mayor Jerry Treñas’ city administrator, Melchor Tan, is shunning media interviews. But it is not because he is averse to the media....
Gov. Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr.

DENGUE OUTBREAK: Defensor mulls emergency medicine purchases

ILOILO – Gov. Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr. announced he would declare a dengue outbreak through an executive order, citing the surge in cases in the first...

Jerry does a Joe: Hires, fires job hires

ILOILO City – Mayor Jerry Treñas announced the city government would rehire job hires who were fired by his predecessor, former mayor Jose Espinosa III. “Pasulod ko lang...