ILOILO CITY – A new set of dolls for the Dinagyang Festival here has been unveiled. Iloilo Business Park of property developer Megaworld Corp. launched a new set of dolls this week ahead of the weekend highlight of this year’s festival. THE Niño: The Dinagyang Warrior Doll is...
ILOILO CITY – Suspected shabu valued at P9.3 million was seized in this city one week before the highlight of the 2025 Dinagyang Festival. SUSPECTED shabu valued at more than P4 million and a gun were recovered by the police in a buy-bust operation in Iloilo City. (PNP/ICPO-CDEU) The Iloilo...
ILOILO CITY – Police here have stepped up the campaign against illegal drugs two weeks before the highlight of the 2025 Dinagyang Festival. SHABU valued at P1.36 million was seized in Iloilo City on Jan. 9. (PNP/ICPO) The Iloilo City Police Station-Drug Enforcement Team and the ICPO-Police...
ILOILO CITY – The Police Regional Office-6 and the Iloilo City government are reviewing the proposed mobile signal jam for the highlight of the 2025 Dinagyang Festival in this city from Jan. 25 to 26. POLICE secure the 2024 Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City. (PNP/ICPO) “We will recommend...
ILOILO CITY – Bayan Panay slammed Mayor Jerry Treñas here for banning political speeches in the upcoming 2025 Dinagyang Festival. FIRST Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos addresses the 2023 Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City. With her are Mayor Jerry Treñas and House Speaker Martin Romualdez. (Mayor...
ILOILO CITY – This city and province of Iloilo emerged victorious at the Aliwan Fiesta 2024, a national competition among the various festivals in the country, in Manila on Saturday, June 29. THE Dinagyang Festival of Iloilo City (left) and the Tultugan Festival of Maasin town, Iloilo province...
ILOILO CITY – The Dinagyang Festival of this city was awarded the Asia-Pacific Folklore Festival of 2024 by the International Festival and Events Association (IFEA-Asia) in Pattaya, Thailand. ILOILO Festivals Foundation Inc. (IFFI) president Allan Tan (center) received the Asia-Pacific...
ROXAS CITY – The Dinagyang Festival of Iloilo City has been awarded as the Best Festival for the Visayas of the Philippine LEAF Awards. TRIBU Pan-ay of Fort San Pedro National High School is the winner of the main competition of the 2024...
SM Supermalls’ President Steven Tan, Philip Cu-unjieng, Tessa Prieto, Tim Yap, Sharyn Wong, Nicole Andersson, Arnel Patawaran, Bea Ledesma, and Miss International 2023 3rd Runner-Up Nicole Borromeo at a Dinagyang photo spot in SM City Iloilo The annual Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo takes...
Las Piñas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar (Rep. Villar's office) Las Piñas City lone district Rep. Camille Villar can't help but be wowed by the performers of this year's Dinagyang Festival at the Iloilo Freedom Grandstand in Iloilo...
A JOYOUS OCCASION Dancers perform in honor of the Santo Niño as part of a Dinagyang Ati tribe competition (Photo Mark Balmores) There’s a different ring to the loud screams of “Hala Bira!” in this year’s celebration of Dinagyang, held over the weekend, from Jan. 26 to Jan. 28, in Iloilo....
ILOILO CITY – The recent Dinagyang Festival here was generally peaceful, police said. POLICE stand guard during a 2024 Dinagyang Festival performance in Iloilo City. (PNP ICPO) Police Col. Joeresty P. Coronica, chief of the Iloilo City Police (ICPO) and head of the security task force for...
