ILOILO CITY – Intermittent heavy rainfall from typhoon “Egay” flooded 70 out of the 180 barangays here. RESCUERS evacuate an elderly woman from her flooded home in Iloilo City on Thursday, July 27. (Iloilo City DRRMO) Data from the Iloilo City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office...
ILOILO CITY – Police have arrested the most wanted person in Western Visayas in Dumangas town, Iloilo province. The Iloilo Provincial Police Office-Provincial Intelligence Unit (IPPO-PUI), the 2nd Iloilo Provincial Mobile Force Company, and the Dumangas Municipal Police Station nabbed the suspect...
ILOILO CITY – A student from this city bagged a silver medal for the Philippines in the World Mathematics Invitational in South Korea. GIHUN Ng Yoo (St. Joseph School Iloilo) Gihun Ng Yoo, an incoming Grade 9 student at St. Joseph School Iloilo, bested 1,275 competitors from 17 countries in the...
BACOLOD CITY – Trips of fast craft vessels from here to Iloilo and vice-versa were suspended on Tuesday, July 25, due to super typhoon “Egay.” The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) cancelled trips due to big waves and rough seas. Regular trips will resume as soon as weather is back to normal,...
ILOILO CITY – The nationwide transport strike on Monday, July 24, had minimal impact in this city and province of Iloilo. (https://images.mb.com.ph/production/mb-mkt-neo-prod-1-uploads/ILOILO_JEEPNEY_STRIKE_b6828bf632/ILOILO_JEEPNEY_STRIKE_b6828bf632.jfif) TWO jeepney drivers and operators join...
ILOILO CITY – Police seized suspected shabu worth more than P1 million from two drug pushers in a buy-bust operation here over the weekend. Suspects were identified as Jonald “Onat” Eguales, 33, and Jenny Joy “Inday” Padesterio, 19. The Iloilo City Police Office-City Drug Enforcement Unit...
ILOILO CITY – A Swedish business group is proposing a bus rapid transit (BRT) here and neighboring towns. Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas said the Department of Transportation (DOTr) will sign a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on behalf of the Iloilo City government for the feasibility study of the...
ILOILO CITY – Power rates in this city have dropped for the seventh straight month. MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) announced a decrease of P0.2410 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for billings this month to P11.4173/kWh from P11.6583 per kWh in June. “This achievement is a testament to the...
ILOILO CITY – Police seized more than P1.17 million worth of shabu from four suspected drug pushers in three separate buy-bust operations here from Monday, July 17, to Tuesday, July 18. Police Brig. Gen. Sidney Villaflor, Police Regional Office (PRO)-6 chief, lauded the three successful...
ILOILO CITY – The Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (KALAHI-CIDSS), the communal development program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), has poured more than P55.6 million for 33 projects in Pavia town, Iloilo province...
CAMP MALVAR, Batangas City – Police nabbed a 25-year-old Sangguniang Kabataan kagawad (councilor) wanted for rape and lascivious conduct in Batangas in Barangay Poblacion, Carles, Iloilo on Monday, July 17. Batangas police chief Police Col. Samson Belmonte, in his report to Police Regional Office...
ILOILO CITY – Inclement weather did not stop the mass wedding of six couples from the Ati indigenous peoples (IPs) group in Tigbauan town, Iloilo province on Monday, July 17. (https://images.mb.com.ph/production/mb-mkt-neo-prod-1-uploads/ATI_WEDDING_ef61e7f28c/ATI_WEDDING_ef61e7f28c.jfif) SIX Ati...
