Guv to back Albee’s Senate bid
By EUGENE ADIONG
BACOLOD City — In case 3rd District Rep. Alfredo Abelardo Benitez decides to run for Senate in 2016, Gov. Alfredo Marañon Jr....
Roxas water district mired in P1-B debt
By RALPH JOHN MIJARES
ROXAS City — The Metro Roxas Water District (MRWD) has incurred more than a billion pesos worth of debt, its general...
Improve services, ex-GM dares MRWD
By RALPH JOHN MIJARES
ROXAS City — A former general manager of the Metro Roxas Water District (MRWD) challenged the water distribution facility to improve...
Kalibo, volunteer group win ‘Gawad Kalasag’
By BOY RYAN B. ZABAL
KALIBO, Aklan — The municipal government here and a volunteer group were declared winners in the 2014 Gawad Kalasag: Search...
Sackloads of rice seeds ‘missing’
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO – Under its Rice Development Program, the provincial government purchased fertilizers and palay seeds for distribution to farmers. But the Provincial Agriculture Office...
Agri chief blames ‘errors’ in documentation
BY GLENDA SOLOGASTOA
ILOILO – Provincial Agriculturist Ildefonso Toledo believes the rice seeds and fertilizers that the provincial government procured under its Rice Development Program...
Due process for cop in motel shooting – Salinas
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – Due process will be accorded to PO3 Anthony Pandagani who figured in a shooting at a motel here.
If...
2 nabbed for robbery
BY RUBY P. SILUBRICO
ILOILO City – Two employees of a water refill station on Fuentes St., City Proper were arrested for robbing their office.
Now...
PNoy appoints Pangilinan agriculture, food czar
BY PRINCE GOLEZ
Manila Reporter
MANILA – President Benigno Aquino III has appointed former senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan as Presidential Assistant for Food Security and Agricultural Modernization (PAFSAM).
Pangilinan...
Kiko not keen on becoming president
BY PRINCE GOLEZ
Manila Reporter
MANILA – “Politics will take care of itself.”
Former senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan dismissed speculations he is being groomed to be the administration’s standard...