Cash-strapped Roxas and Company, Inc. (RCI) has received a much-needed P500 million capital infusion from Stonebridge Corporation, a company chaired by Gizela Gonzalez-Montinola. RCI has investments in real estate through Roxas Land Corporation and sugar milling through a minority interest in Roxas...
Businessman Leandro Leviste has acquired a 7.55 percent stake in cash-strapped Roxas and Company, Inc. (RCI) to become its largest individual shareholder a week after announcing plans to make investments to help local communities in Batangas. Leviste disclosed to the Securities and Exchange...
ILOILO CITY – The lawyer known as “Pinoy Aquaman” brought his marine protection advocacy after a 10.8-kilometer swim to Roxas City, the capital of Capiz province. LAWYER Ingemar Macarine, dubbed the ‘Pinoy Aquaman,’ swims to the shore of Roxas City from the island-barangay of Olotayan on...
ILOILO CITY – Classes in Roxas City were suspended on Thursday and Friday, March 14 and 15, due to a heat wave. CLASSES were suspended in Roxas City, Capiz due to a heat wave. (FB) Mayor Ronnie Dadivas issued Executive Order No. 11, Series of 2024, suspending classes in public and private schools...
ILOILO CITY – A government housing project built by the National Housing Authority (NHA) has become the relocation site for victims of a recent fire in Barangay 7, Roxas City, Capiz province. FIRE victims move into their new homes at Tanza Ville Subdivision in Roxas City, Capiz province....
Central Azucarera Don Pedro Inc. (CADPI), a wholly-owned sugar mill subsidiary of the First Pacific Co.-controlled Roxas Holdings Inc., announced that it has permanently closed its business operations effective on Feb. 28, 2024 due to serious business losses and the government’s sugar...
ILOILO CITY – Two people died in a fire in a residential area in Roxas City, the capital of Capiz province, on Tuesday afternoon, February 27. Roxas City Mayor Ronnie Dadivas confirmed the death of two senior citizens in an official statement released via his official Facebook page. SMOKE rises...
TOKAI Corporation of Japan is investing an additional P3.43 billion in publicly-listed renewable energy firm Repower Energy Development Corporation, a subsidiary of Pure Energy Holdings Corporation, to double its stake to 20.1 percent. In a statement, REDC said TOKAI Corporation is the consolidated...
ILOILO CITY – Mayor Receliste Escolin of President Roxas, Capiz has filed a motion to stop the Office of the Ombudsman from implementing his three-month suspension. ESCOLIN (DA-6) Escolin has submitted an Omnibus Motion for Reconsideration with prayer to hold in abeyance the Ombudsman’s...
ILOILO CITY – The Ombudsman suspended Mayor Receliste Escolin of President Roxas town, Capiz province, for three months without pay due to misconduct. ESCOLIN (DA-6) Associate Ombudsman Arita Lapitan has issued an order to Gov. Fredenil Castro to implement Escolin’s suspension. The order...
ILOILO CITY – A new Capiz provincial capitol is rising. Construction commenced following the groundbreaking ceremony on January 18. THE new Capiz provincial capitol will rise in the Pueblo de Panay in Roxas City. (Capiz provincial government Communications Group) Capiz Gov. Fredenil Castro led...
ILOILO CITY – Roxas City, the capital of Capiz province, was named as one of the country’s “Tastiest Travel Destinations” by travel booking website Agoda. Dubbed as the “Seafood Capital,” Agoda picked Roxas due to its fresh oysters and squid as well as a wide selection of dried fish....
