ILOILO CITY – Extreme heat was felt as people marked Maundy Thursday in Western Visayas. PEOPLE take a break amid the hot weather in Fort San Pedro in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) The State weather bureau said that the heat index was on the “dangerous” level with more than 40 degrees...
ILOILO CITY – The Police Regional Office-6 has deployed 3,100 policemen to secure Western Visayas this Holy Week. PRO-6 chief Police Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky ordered the implementation of all security and public safety measures. THE Police Regional Office-6 has deployed 3,100 lawmen to secure...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Tourism (DOT) awarded six tourism industry players in the Western Visayas region for gender equality as part of the National Women’s Month celebration. AWARDEES of the Icons of Sustainable Tourism Awards and Recognition (ISTaR) with Department of Tourism...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Agriculture-8 has confirmed the first case of avian influenza or bird flu in Eastern Visayas on Monday, March 25. The agency made the declaration following photos and videos circulating online of chickens being buried at the Leyte Poultry Development Corp....
TACLOBAN CITY – The Police Regional Office-8 deployed around 3,700 uniformed personnel to ensure peace and order in Eastern Visayas during the Holy Week from March 22 to 31. A send-off ceremony was held for the 296 personnel augmenting local forces on the ground in the conduct of patrol...
TACLOBAN CITY – Authorities have dismantled two more New People’s Army (NPA) units in Eastern Visayas. These were Platoon 2 of Island Committee 47 Levox operating in the provinces of Leyte, Biliran, and Southern Leyte, and the Elcon Platoon of Sub-Regional Committee Browser operating in the...
ILOILO CITY – Police Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky revealed his one-month accomplishment as Police Regional Office-6 (Western Visayas) chief on Monday, March 18. POLICE Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky (center) reports his one-month accomplishment as chief of the Police Regional Office-6. Behind him area (from...
CEBU CITY – Intelligence monitoring has been tightened in Central Visayas following the recent discovery of bricks of cocaine worth P106 million in Eastern Visayas. The Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas (PDEA-7) are checking...
ILOILO CITY – The West Visayas State University (WVSU) has ordered a retake of the College Admission Test on March 10 following the public uproar over the alleged leakage of questions. The WVSU administration and its Board of Regents announced on Friday, March 15, that it invalidated the results...
CEBU CITY – The Philippine Drug Enforcement-Central Visayas (PDEA-7) reported that 17.6 kilos of suspected shabu valued at more than P120 million have been seized in Region 7 (Central Visayas) in the first two months of the year. PDEA-7 spokesperson Leia Alcantara said that the two-month haul was...
ILOILO CITY – Crops worth more than P726.7 million have been damaged by the dry spell caused by the El Niño in Western Visayas. The Regional Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (RDRRMC), in a report on Tuesday, March 12, that cited the Department of Agriculture (DA)-6, said...
ILOILO CITY – Western Visayas, just a month after registering the lowest inflation rate in five years, recorded a 2.7 percent inflation rate, up 0.7 percent from two percent in January. FRESH fish are sold in a stall at Iloilo Fish Port in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) Nelida Amolar, Philippine...
