ILOILO CITY – Schools across Iloilo province have to make to do with what they have as school year 2023-2024 opens on Tuesday, August 29. HENRY Gulmatico Mota (right), principal of Cagamutan Elementary School in Leganes town, Iloilo province, discusses matters related to the school opening with...
ILOILO CITY – A man who is among the most wanted persons in Western Visayas for rape was nabbed in Iloilo on Friday, August 25. Police withheld the name of the 22-year-old suspect wanted for six counts of rape but said he was arrested in Dumangas. The Dumangas Municipal Police Station apprehended...
ILOILO CITY – The city government awarded eight trailblazing Ilonggos during the 86th Charter Day celebration on Friday. FIVE of the eight Lifetime Achievement awardees by the Iloilo City government pose for a photo on Friday, August 25. (Arnold Almacen/CMO) “We recognized Ilonggos who...
ILOILO CITY – Iloilo Gov. Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr. of Iloilo has joined the Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP), the political party of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. ILOILO Gov. Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr. (right) with President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. after his...
ILOILO CITY – The Philippine Army 61st Infantry Battalion (IB) extended cash assistance to the family of a New People’s Army (NPA) killed in an encounter in Iloilo earlier this month. Lt. Col. Arturo Balgos Jr., 61 st IB acting commander, met the family of the slain rebel Rebecca Aliparo in her...
ILOILO CITY – Seven couples from the Ati indigenous peoples (IPs) group in Iloilo tied the knot in a Catholic church in Barotac Viejo, this province. SEVEN Ati couples kiss after their wedding at Barangay Nueva Invencion Chapel in Barotac Viejo town, Iloilo province. (Saints Peter and Paul...
ILOILO CITY – A barangay “tanod” or watchman yielded suspected shabu and an unlicensed firearm and grenade in a buy-bust operation in San Enrique town, Iloilo province on Sunday, August 20. Police identified the suspect as John Paul Eulatriz Baclagon of Barangay Bagacay, San Enrique. The...
ILOILO CITY – Eleven persons were injured after the truck they were riding plunged off a mountain road in San Enrique town, Iloilo province over the long weekend. ELEVEN persons were injured after a truck fell off a mountain road in San Enrique town, Iloilo province. (Photo courtesy ZNL) The...
ILOILO CITY – Police arrested a member of the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade (RPA-ABB), a breakaway group of the New People’s Army (NPA), in Janiuay town, Iloilo province. The suspect Noel Café, 60, was arrested last week by the Janiuay Municipal Police Station, backed by...
The ROTC Games Visayas from August 14 to 19 in Iloilo City was an overwhelming success, a statement from the office of Sen. Francis N. Tolentino said. Tolentino said this remarkable event brought together ROTC cadets from different regions of Visayas, aiming to promote sportsmanship, camaraderie,...
ILOILO CITY – A statue of Saint John Paul II has been unveiled in this city 42 years after his visit as Pope. Archbishop Jose Romeo Lazo of the Archdiocese of Jaro and Monsignor Jomarie Delgado presided over the blessing of the bronze statue at the Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral complex. THE statue...
ILOILO CITY – As the new school year approaches, Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. assured funding for classrooms all over Iloilo province. GOV. Arthur Defensor Jr. speaks during the groundbreaking of a teen center at the Iloilo National High School in Iloilo City. (Iloilo National High School...
