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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...

Jinggoy shrugs off online petition calling resignation

BY PRINCE GOLEZ Manila Reporter MANILA – Opposition senator Jinggoy Estrada said he would rather wait for the Sandiganbayan’s decision on the multibillion-peso Priority Development Assistance...