ILOILO CITY — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has launched a mascot called the "Pinas: Basura Buster" (PBB) to strengthen the waste management campaign in Western Visayas. THE Pinas: Basura Buster of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in Iloilo...
ILOILO CITY – The Army 3rd Infantry Division (3rd ID) has 149 new soldiers for Western Visayas and Central Visayas. MAJOR Gen. Benedict Arevalo pins the rank of a new soldier during a ceremony in Camp Peralta, the headquarters of the 3rd Infantry Division of the Philippine Army in Jamindan,...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Health (DOH) has logged 50 dengue fatalities in Western Visayas from January to July this year. Capiz has logged its first dengue death, the DOH-Region 6 Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (RESU) said in an August 11 report. Four new deaths from...
ILOILO CITY – Police Brig. Gen. Flynn Dongbo has stepped down as Western Visayas police chief. The Philippine National Police (PNP) headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City has issued an order to Dongbo to step down as director of the Police Regional Office (PRO)-6 effective Monday, August 8....
MALACAD mugshot. (Caluya police) ILOILO CITY – Police arrested the No. 1 most wanted person in Western Visayas in Caluya, Antique Thursday, August 4. The Police Regional Office (PRO)-6 identified the suspect as Dennis Salvoza Malacad. The PRO-6 Regional Intelligence Unit, Antique Police...
ILOILO CITY—The Department of Agriculture (DA) is now pushing for data forecasting for crops and livestock production in Western Visayas region. Data forecasting for crops and livestock production which is used as the basis in formulating policy that would be adopted used to be done by the...
ILOILO CITY – Three provinces in Western Visayas registered high positivity rates for Covid-19 in the last week of July, OCTA Research disclosed Monday, August 1. “Positivity rates are rising, indicating increasing transmission of the virus,” said Dr. Guido David, OCTA Research fellow. David...
AN aerial view of the project in Barotac Viejo, Iloilo. (DPWH-6) ILOILO CITY – The Department of Public Works and Highways-Region 6 (Western Visayas) has completed a P49.2-million slope protection project in Barotac Viejo, Iloilo. The project will provide protection against landslides to...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Agriculture (DA) supports the call of hog raisers to raise the price of live pigs in Western Visayas. PIGS are loaded into a truck in Dumagas, Iloilo for transportation. (Tara Yap) "Help support our local hog raisers by buying their stocks at P140 to P150 per kilo...
ILOILO CITY – The Office of Civil Defense (OCD)-Region 6 is seeking the assessment of the structural integrity of infrastructure across Western Visayas following the magnitude-7 earthquake in Northern Luzon Wednesday, July 26. In a July 27 memorandum, OCD-Region 6 director Jose Roberto Nuñez...
AERIAL photograph shows the flood that hit Capiz due to rains from tropical depression ‘Agaton’ last April. (Capiz Kabalaka Information Center) ILOILO CITY – An official of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) has said that massive flood control projects are needed in three major river systems...
ILOILO CITY – Dengue cases in Western Visayas are approaching almost 7,000. A MAKESHIFT hospital in a gym in Maasin, Iloilo during a dengue outbreak in 2019. (Leo Solinap/File/Manila Bulletin) The Department of Health (DOH) recorded 674 new dengue cases from July 10 to 16, bringing the total...
