ILOILO CITY – A police officer and a fireman were among those arrested in this city for illegal gambling. Police Lt. Col. Antonio Benitez Jr., chief of the Iloilo City Police Office-City Intelligence Unit (ICPO-CIU), said they were among the 29 arrested during an anti-gambling operation on...
Mayors Jerry Treñas of Iloilo City and Alfredo “Albee” Benitez of Bacolod City have publicly backed the sentiments of First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos against Vice President Sara Duterte. FIRST Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos and Mayor Jerry Treñas during the 2023 Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City....
ILOILO CITY – Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin "Benhur" Abalos Jr. said this city is far from being a “shabulized” – a word created by then President Rodrigo Duterte referring to shabu. INTERIOR and Local Government Secretary Benhur Abalos joins the Buhay Ingatan,...
ILOILO CITY – Police Regional Office-6 chief Police Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky backed the proposal to construct additional police stations in this city. POLICE Regional Office-6 chief Police Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky (left) receives a token from Police Col. Joeresty Coronica during his command visit to...
ILOILO CITY – Police arrested an ex-convict in a buy-bust operation here on April 12. P3-MILLION worth of suspected shabu and a gun were recovered in an April 12 anti-drug operation in Iloilo City. (PNP ICPO-CDEU) Seized from the suspect, Damian Cataluña, was suspected shabu worth...
ILOILO CITY – This city has recorded its first pertussis or whooping cough fatality. Citing the Department of Health (DOH), Mayor Jerry Treñas said the victim was a one-month-old baby. The Iloilo City Health Office said the city has 30 pertussis cases as of April 12. Dr. Roland Jay Fortuna,...
ILOILO CITY – Sen. Christopher “Bong” Go, with the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the National Housing Authority (NHA), has provided assistance to displaced workers from two towns of Iloilo province. Go led the emergency employment program for 570 beneficiaries displaced by...
ILOILO CITY – Police seized suspected shabu worth P2.9 million from four drug pushers in buy-bust operations on April 9 and 10 in Estancia town, Iloilo province. Police identified the suspects as Jackie, Lester, Joeffrey, and Salmar. Jackie yielded shabu worth P1.36 million on April 10....
ILOILO CITY – MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power), the sole electric distributor in this city, welcomed the energization of the Cebu-Negros-Panay 230-kilovolt (kV) backbone project of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines. THE substation of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines...
ILOILO CITY – A suspected drug pusher who gunned down a police officer in Pototan, Iloilo, was killed in a hot-pursuit operation in Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo, last Monday, April 8. READ: https://mb.com.ph/2024/4/8/cop-conducting-surveillance-killed-in-iloilo Police identified the suspect as Michael...
ILOILO CITY – The mass oath-taking of officials and politicians from Iloilo and other areas of Western Visayas region before the ruling party Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP) has been postponed. PRESIDENT Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. and Iloilo City Rep. Julienne ‘Jamjam’ Baronda meet during a...
ILOILO CITY – A policeman was gunned down by a drug pusher while he was conducting surveillance against the suspect in Pototan, Iloilo on Monday, April 8. The victim was identified as Police Corporal Reo Manero, a resident of Janiuay town, Iloilo, and a newly assigned law enforcer in the...
