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 – Mayor Jerry Treñas denied using government funds and hiring online trolls to raise his stock after his official Facebook page was discovered by a criitic to have spent more than P1 million to boost his posts for a period of four years. “It’s personal fund,” said Treñas in a...
Former president Rodrigo Duterte (left), Iloilo City 1st district Rep. Julienne "Jam" Baronda (Malacañang photo, Rep. Baronda's office) House Deputy Majority Leader Iloilo City lone district Rep. Julienne “Jam” Baronda wants to erase once and...
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 – Police seized suspected shabu valued at more than P1 million and arrested a drug pusher in a buy-bust operation in Barangay Bakhaw, Mandurriao District, this city, on Tuesday night, August 13. The Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) identified the suspect as alias Bogs. POLICE...
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,...
ILOILO CITY – The Army 3rd Infantry Division has identified the five New People’s Army rebels killed in a clash in Calinog, Iloilo, on Thursday, August 8. HIGH-POWERED firearms were recovered in an encounter between the New People’s Army and the military on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024, in Calinog,...
