CYCLISTS gather at the starting line of the Tour of Iloilo Double Century Ride at the 2022 Iloilo Bike Festival. The main events were hosted by Iloilo Business Park, the township of Megaworld Corp. in Iloilo City. (Megaworld) ILOILO CITY – The 2022 Iloilo Bike Festival wrapped up Sunday, July 31,...
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 – Police nabbed two brothers facing murder charges in Lambunao, Iloilo. The suspects were identified as 31-year-old Virgilio Lastimoso Larroza and 44-year-old Bernaldo Lastimoso Larroza Jr., both residents of Barangay Jayubo, Lambunao. They were arrested separately in their homes...
ILOILO CITY -- Activists and former political detainees re-inaugurated a monument in Iloilo City dedicated to the alleged victims of martial law. Activists attended a brief program that re-inaugurated a monument in Iloilo City dedicated to the martyrs of the martial law years. (Courtesy of Panay...
WILLIE Wendam shows the 27-kilo barramundi fish or the Asian sea bass that is locally known as ‘salonsong’ that he caught on the Iloilo River Sunday, July 24. (LPU Kids) ILOILO CITY – A giant fish was caught on the Iloilo River Sunday, July 24. This time, Willie Wendam was able to catch a...
ILOILO CITY – A 30-year-old policeman died after he accidentally shot himself with his wife’s gun in Jaro, this city, Friday, July 22. POLICE Corporal Paul Eric Uyaco. (Photo courtesy of Jessie Labiste Jr.) The victim was identified as Police Corporal Paul Eric Uyaco, assigned to the San...
ILOILO CITY – Police seized P1.19-million worth of suspected shabu from two alleged drug pushers in a buy-bust operation in Barangay San Antonio, Molo district here before dawn Friday, July 22. TWO suspected drug pushers – Jejomar Benosa Pineda and Michael Jaynos Capero (seated) – were...
ILOILO CITY – A well-known Catholic priest urged graduates of the University of the Philippines (UP) Visayas in Miagao, Iloilo to fight for truth. MONSIGNOR Meliton Oso speaks to graduating students of the UP Visayas during the Thursday, July 21 baccalaureate service. (UP Visayas PIO) “Protect...
ILOILO CITY – Police arrested the No. 1 most wanted person in Western Visayas in Calinog, Iloilo before dawn Wednesday, July 20. The Police Regional Office (PRO)-6 said the suspect, Joel Caseño Leyble, 29, was arrested in the mountainous barangay of Toyungan past 3:30 a.m. He is wanted for...
THE clergy and the laity pay respects to the urn of Archbishop Emeritus Angel Lagdameo who was laid to rest inside the Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral in Iloilo City Tuesday, July 19. (Jaro Archdiocese-Commission on Social Communications) ILOILO CITY – Former Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the...
ILOILO CITY – The provincial government assured Monday, July 18, that district hospitals in Iloilo are ready to admit patients amid the surge in Covid-19 cases. THE Iloilo Provincial Hospital in Pototan, Iloilo. (Tara Yap) Iloilo Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. said that a system is in place for...
ILOILO CITY – Former Vice President Leni Robredo said Thursday, July 14, that more programs under the volunteer-based Angat Buhay can be done for this city and Iloilo. FORMER Vice President Leni Robredo interacts with supporters in Iloilo City who showed her a standee of herself. (Tara Yap)...
