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“We have 11 island barangays. All this islands have about 20,000 individuals or 4,500 families affected by the bad weather. They cannot buy food,” says Mayor Raul Banias of Concepcion, Iloilo. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

Banias ‘not interested’ in LMP-Iloilo presidency

ILOILO – Former provincial administrator and now Concepcion’s Mayor-elect Raul Banias said he is “not interested” in the League of the Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP)...
After being convicted with “final judgment” for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, Mayor-elect Frankie Locsin of Janiuay, Iloilo cannot assume office, says Department of Interior and Local Government Region 6 director Engineer Ariel Iglesia. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

DILG: Janiuay mayor-elect cannot assume post

ILOILO – Newly elected officials will assume office tomorrow, July 1 – but not Mayor-elect Frankie Locsin of Janiuay town, according to the Department of Interior...
Ilonggo Supreme Court Associate Justice Francis Jardeleza

Things to remember while in service: God, family, country

ILOILO City – God. Family. Country. These words were given highlight in Ilonggo Supreme Court Associate Justice Francis Jardeleza’s message to newly elected provincial officials of Iloilo...

DILG: Janiuay mayor-elect cannot assume post

ILOILO – Newly elected officials will assume office tomorrow, July 1 – but not Mayor-elect Frankie Locsin of Janiuay town, according to the Department of Interior...

2 more Iloilo boys die of dengue

ILOILO – The province recorded an additional two deaths due to dengue, the Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported. The latest fatalities were both five-year-old boys from the...
Panay Electric Company (PECO) represented by its administrative manager Marcelo Cacho has filed complaints against City Councilors Joshua Alim and Plaridel Nava for violation of Article of Section 3 (e) of RA 3019 or Anti-graft and Corrupt Practices Act; violation of Article 171 (paragraph 2 and 4), use of falsified document under Article 172, sub-paragraph of par. 2 of the Revised Penal Code; and libel.

PECO sues Alim, Nava, 2 others over ‘fake’ petition

ILOILO City – Panay Electric Company (PECO), represented by its administrative manager Marcelo Cacho, charged councilors Joshua Alim and Plaridel Nava with graft, falsification of document and...
READY FOR THE ‘BIG ONE’? The medical staff of Iloilo Mission Hospital in La Paz, Iloilo City rehearse the basic earthquake response “duck, cover and hold” in preparation for today’s (Feb. 21, 2019) national simultaneous earthquake drill. IAN PAUL CORDERO/PN

‘LGUs must initiate local earthquake drills’

ILOILO City – On their own, local disaster risk reduction and management offices (LDRRMMOs) of local government units must initiate earthquake drills and not merely rely...

GOAL: SOCIAL JUSTICE

ILOILO – Good governance won’t be enough. His administration would also focus on social justice, according to Governor-elect Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr. who took his oath...
Franklin Drilon

Mission: Reclaim Iloilo’s ‘Queen of the South’ title

ILOILO City – “We must stand and work together shoulder-to-shoulder to reclaim the title ‘Queen City of the South’ which we lost a century ago.” This is...

Wanted: More beds for district hospitals

ILOILO – As dengue cases here rise, district hospitals operated by the provincial government are running out of beds. “The Philippine Red Cross evaluated our hospitals and saw...