BACOLOD CITY – The Negros Occidental Police Provincial Office (Nocppo) said the number of crimes in the province went down by 11 percent in the first half of the year. THE NOCCPO grandstand in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. (Glazyl Masculino) A total of 2,104 incidents were reported from...
ILOILO CITY – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. called out Western Visayas region for its low vaccination rate during the third State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA) on Monday, July 22. TODDLERS and children are immunized in Santa Barbara town, Iloilo province. (DOH-6) “Tuloy-tuloy...
President Marcos was proud when he said that the Philippines was able to weather the different challenges it faced, especially economic challenges. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate/MANILA BULLETIN) Marcos said this as he delivered his third State of the Nation Address (SONA)...
ILOILO CITY – The crime rate in Western Visayas dropped by 11.68 percent in the first half of this year. The Police Regional Office-6 recorded 5,529 crime incidents from January 1 to June 30, 731 fewer than the same period last year with 6,260. CAMP Delgado, the Police Regional Office-6...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported an improvement in the country's poverty incidence last year, in line with the government's goal of reducing it to single digits by 2028. Based on the preliminary findings of the 2023 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES), the poverty...
CEBU CITY – A party-list representative wants to hear President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. talk about the steps that the government is taking to address the rising inflation rate in the State-of-the-Nation Address on Monday, July 22. Agri party-list Rep. Wilbert Lee said the President should talk...
The uptrend in the tariff of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) in its July billing will strain its customers’ household budgets, but a survey of selected power utilities in various parts of the country would show that its rate hike is still leaner versus peer-distribution firms. Meralco announced...
ILOILO CITY – Electric consumers in this city have to pay an additional P4.0817 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in the July billing cycle. A LINEMAN of MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) Lone power distributor MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) announced that...
Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla, Jr. expects President Marcos to discuss ways to address inflation as well as his plans on food security and national security in his third State of the Nation Address on July 22. In a statement, Revilla said that he is positive that the President's third SONA will...
By MYRNA M. VELASCO The roughly 8.0 million customers of Manila Electric Company (Meralco) will suffer ‘electric shock’ from its P2.1496 per kilowatt hour (kWh) hefty rate hike in the July billing, which were triggered by uptick in the generation charge with high exposure in the Wholesale...
By TARA YAP ILOILO CITY – The inflation rate in Western Visayas region jumped to 4.9 percent last June. A VENDOR at the La Paz Market in Iloilo City. The Philippine Statistics Authority reported that the inflation rate in Western Visayas went up to 4.9 percent in June. (Tara Yap)...
Department of Budget and Management Secretary Amenah F. Pangandaman said that government agencies spent 45 percent of their budget as of the first quarter. At the sidelines of the launching of the Green Green Green program, Pangandaman told reporters that the average “obligation rate” of the...
