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Gov’t to investigate post-oil spill actions

BY PRINCE GOLEZ, Manila Reporter and GLENDA SOLOGASTOA MANILA – The government will verify the status of the 2006 massive oil spill in Guimaras. “We will...

Zarraga goes organic

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ZARRAGA, Iloilo – This town will soon be home to an agro-ecotourism site called Garden Area for Initiatives in Action (GAIA). On August...

DOT: Iloilo next tourism hub

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City – “A destination by itself,” said Department of Tourism (DOT) Region 6 director Helen Catalbas of the rising Iloilo Business...

Man stabbed dead, another wounded

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA ILOILO City – A drunken man stabbed dead his drinking buddy in Barangay Canabajan, Calinog, Iloilo. Victim Sofronio Palencia Jr., 30, of the said...

City registrar’s office ransacked

BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA and RUBY P. SILUBRICO ILOILO City – An unidentified culprit ransacked the office of the civil registrar of Passi City, carting away...

COMPETITIVENESS RANKING Bacolod slump turns admin defensive

By MAE SINGUAY BACOLOD City — Bacolod slipped to No. 20 in 2013 from No. 5 in 2012 in the National Competitiveness Council’s (NCC) Most...

Woman found dead in Toboso

By CYRUS M. GARDE BACOLOD City — A 50-year-old woman was found dead in a cave in the coastal barangay of General Luna in Toboso...

Brgy workers get insurance

By CYRUS M. GARDE BACOLOD City — Barangay workers in Negros Occidental have availed themselves of the insurance program of the provincial government. Gov. Alfredo Marañon...

5 Capiz students in ‘photo scandal’

By RALPH JOHN MIJARES ROXAS City — Five graduating students of Capiz National High School (CNHS) got flak online after suggestive photos of them went...

Aklan cop one of country’s outstanding

By BOY RYAN B. ZABAL KALIBO, Aklan — No good deed should go unrewarded. For his “unselfish and untiring efforts, professionalism, and devotion to duty,” a...