ILOILO CITY – Around 8,671 individuals from 2,641 families evacuated from their homes in Antique province as of Sunday, September 15, due to the impact of the ‘habagat’ or the southwest monsoon. The Antique Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office said heavy rainfall since...
ILOILO CITY – Twenty-nine local government units in Antique and Iloilo suspended classes on Friday, September 13, due to heavy rains caused by the southwest monsoon or "habagat" and low-pressure area. A KNEE-deep flood was recorded in Hamtic town, Antique province on Thursday night due...
ILOILO CITY – Outgoing Gov. Rhodora “Dodod” Cadiao is pushing the proposal for two congressional districts in Antique province anew. CADIAO (Tara Yap) “This has been proposed for a very long time and it’s about time there will be two districts,” Cadiao told Manila Bulletin in a phone...
ILOILO CITY – Nine of the 10 survivors of a deadly sea mishap have returned to the island town of Caluya in Antique. “They have been ferried back to Caluya,” said Office of Civil Defense (OCD)-Western Visayas Regional Director Raul Fernandez on Friday, August 30. SURVIVORS of two boats that...
Photo: PCG The remains of the three passengers who died in a sea mishap in Caluya, Antique earlier this week have already been claimed by their relatives, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Friday, Aug. 30. The PCG said the families retrieved their departed loved ones’ bodies at the...
ILOILO CITY – Three persons died and seven remain missing after two boats bound for Caluya Island in Antique province capsized in the sea between Romblon and Boracay on Monday, August 26. THE body of a man who died after two boats bound for Antique sank on August 26 is recovered in Romblon....
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Science and Technology-Philippine Textile Research Institute (DOST-PTRI) has opened a natural dye hub in Antique province to support micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs). A NATURAL Dyes Hub recently opened in San Remigio town, Iloilo province. (DOST-PTRI)...
ILOILO CITY – A New People’s Army rebel was killed in an encounter with the 61 st Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army in Barangay Culyat, Valderrama town, Antique province on Saturday, August 24. GUNS and bullets were seized in an August 24 clash in Valderrama, Antique. (Army...
ILOILO CITY – There should be lessons learned from the suspension of eight members of the Antique provincial board, Gov. Rhodora “Dodod” Cadiao said. “I’m saddened, but this serves as a lesson. The people should not be denied government services only because of politics,” Cadiao said....
ILOILO CITY — The Ombudsman ordered the suspension of eight Antique Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) members over their alleged inaction on the P1-billion supplemental budget of the provincial government. Suspended for six months were Board Members Egidio Elio, Rony Molina, Victor Condez, Alfie Jay...
LOILO CITY – The most wanted person in Western Visayas region was caught in Valderrama town, Antique province on Wednesday, July 31. RONALD (center), the most wanted person in Western Visayas region, was apprehended by the police in Antique on July 31. (PRO-6 PIO) Ronald, 40, was arrested...
The Social Security System (SSS) has inked an agreement with two cooperatives in the province of Antique that will allow around 8,000 members to pay and receive their contributions on their premises. SSS partnered with Belison and Hamtic Multi-Purpose Cooperatives (MPC), allowing them to accept...
