ILOILO CITY – Eleven persons have died from dengue in the province of Iloilo this month amid an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease. HEALTH workers in Iloilo clean up possible mosquito breeding sites. (IPHO) The Iloilo Provincial Health Office said 17 individuals have died from...
ILOILO CITY — Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia-Frasco led the groundbreaking of a P10-million tourist rest area (TRA) in Tubungan town, Iloilo province on August 23. DOT Secretary Christina Frasco leads the groundbreaking of a P10-million tourist rest area in Tubungan town, Iloilo...
ILOILO CITY – More than P1-million shabu was seized in a buy-bust operation on Thursday night, August 22, in Janiuay town, Iloilo province. The Iloilo Police Provincial Office-Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit (IPPO) arrested three suspected drug pushers – alias Batok, Artem, and Grasya. The...
ILOILO CITY – The province of Iloilo has declared a state of calamity following a dengue outbreak to curb cases of the mosquito-borne disease. DEFENSOR (Tara Yap) The Iloilo Provincial Board approved the recommendation of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council led by...
ILOILO CITY – It is unclear if former Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog will return to the country to help clear this city of the “shabulized” tag made by former President Rodrigo Duterte. MABILOG (left) and Duterte. (Tara Yap and file photo) Residents are wondering if Mabilog, who sought...
ILOILO CITY – Federico Caballero, a recipient of the 2000 Gawad sa Manlilikha ng Bayan (National Living Treasure) award from Calinog town, Iloilo province, died on Saturday, August 17, at the age of 88. Family members confirmed the death of Caballero, a cultural bearer of the Suludnon and Panay...
ILOILO CITY — The most wanted New People’s Army (NPA) leader in the Visayas was killed in a clash with government troops in Lambunao town, Iloilo province. BOCALA (Tara Yap) The 3rd Infantry Division (ID) of the Philippine Army confirmed that Maria Concepcion Araneta-Bocala or “Ka Concha”...
ILOILO CITY – The municipal council of Pavia, Iloilo has urged a joint venture agreement (JVA) between Iloilo Electric Cooperative-I (ILECO I) and MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) which is set to expand to key areas of the province. A MORE Power lineman in Iloilo City. MORE Power is set...
ILOILO CITY — The University of the Philippines (UP)-Visayas denied that its campuses in this city and province of Iloilo are recruitment grounds for the New People’s Army (NPA). THE University of the Philippines (UP)-Visayas campus in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) “UP-Visayas is a safe space where...
ILOILO CITY — A dengue outbreak has been declared in Iloilo province following an increase in the number of victims. Gov. Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr. declared the outbreak on Wednesday, August 14, five years after the last one in 2019. GOV. Arthur ‘Toto’ Defensor Jr. confirms a dengue...
ILOILO CITY – The Iloilo Police Provincial Office-Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit seized suspected shabu valued at P2 million in buy-bust operations in a span of two hours in Tigbauan town, Iloilo province on Monday, August 13. SUSPECTED shabu worth P2 million was seized in buy-bust operations...
ILOILO CITY – Two children died and 20 persons were injured in a jeepney crash on a mountain road in Barangay Cagay, Calinog town, Iloilo province on Tuesday morning, August 13. TWO children were killed and 20 others were injured in a jeepney crash in Calinog town, Iloilo province on Tuesday,...
