ILOILO CITY – Police seized suspected shabu worth P3.87 million from live-in partners in a buy-bust operation in this city on Tuesday, Aug. 1. Suspects were identified as 41-year-old Rene “John” Aguilar Paches and 29-year-old Jean “Neneng” Famucol Narciso. LIVE-IN partners Rene ‘John’...
ILOILO CITY — Sen. Imee Marcos has outright denied talks of that one of the sons of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is running for an elective post here. “Sinabi ko lang na may ganoong chismis. Nakiki-marites lang ako (I only said there were rumors. I was only joining the gossip),” the...
ILOILO CITY – The city government has limited the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages here until 12 midnight due to increasing bar fights and other criminal incidents. A DISCO bar in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) “Due the rising numbers of establishments engaging in unregulated dispensation...
ILOILO CITY – Police arrested five brothers for allegedly selling shabu worth P408,000 in this city on Wednesday, July 26. Jovan, Jessie, Jamer, Jonel, and Joebert Billones were nabbed after they sold shabu to a police poseur-buyer. Police listed 35-year-old Jovan as a high-value drug pusher....
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 – 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...
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 – Police seized suspected shabu worth around P408,00 from two brothers in a buy-bust operation here recently. (https://images.mb.com.ph/production/mb-mkt-neo-prod-1-uploads/DRUG_PUSHER_ILOILO_CITY_17042a5ac5/DRUG_PUSHER_ILOILO_CITY_17042a5ac5.jfif) ANDREW Solas and his brother Armando...
