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...