The Police Regional Office 7 has recorded a decrease in crime incidents in Central Visayas region in just a span of two months and attributed it to strategic anti-crime security adjustments and deployment that also led to more 99 percent crime clearance efficiency. In a data released by the PRO7, a...
No farmer from the Visayas will be left behind. Magsasaka Party-list nominee Robert Nazal Jr. Magsasaka Party-list nominee Robert Nazal Jr. made this guarantee to farmers as he led a Visayas-wide territorial and sectoral leaders' strategy planning held recently in Bacolod City. “We support the...
CEBU CITY – About 1,000 classrooms in Central Visayas have yet to be completely repaired, almost a year after the onslaught of typhoon ‘’Odette.’’ Salustiano Jimenez, director of the Department of Education- Central Visayas (DepEd-7), said 1,000 classrooms are still undergoing repairs...
ILOILO CITY – Western Visayas registered a 9.6 percent inflation rate in November, the highest in 13 years, the Philippine Statistics Authority said. A FISH vendor in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) “This is the region’s highest recorded inflation since January 2009,” said Nelida Amolar, chief...
TWENTY-five policemen tied the knot in a mass wedding at the chapel of Camp Delgado, the headquarters of the Philippine National Police (PNP)-Western Visayas, in Iloilo City on Thursday, Dec. 8. (AJ Marcelo Palcullo) ILOILO CITY – Twenty-five policemen wed in a mass wedding in Camp Delgado, the...
BACOLOD CITY – Mayor Alfredo Abelardo “Albee” Benitez here was installed as the new chairperson of the Regional Development Council (RDC) in Western Visayas. BACOLOD City Mayor Alfredo Abelardo ‘Albee’ Benitez, with his wife Dominique, takes his oath as the new chairperson of the Regional...
DA-Western Visayas FB ILOILO CITY – The Department of Agriculture (DA) reported Monday, Dec. 5, the first case of bird flu in Western Visayas after chicken in a poultry farm in Barangay Cagay, Roxas City, the capital of Capiz, have been infected. “The region now is on high alert for the first...
CEBU CITY – Multiple criminal charges were filed against a woman here who allegedly abused her four-year-old daughter through online sexual exploitation. THE National Bureau of Investigation-Central Visayas raids the house of a Cebu City resident accused of sexually exploiting her daughter....
ILOILO CITY – The newly installed regional director of the Department of Agriculture (DA) in Western Visayas is pushing for the modernization of the agriculture and fishery sectors in the region. BARROGO (DA photo) “We must strive to modernize agri-fishery and agribusiness sectors as stipulated...
CEBU CITY -- More than 600 cases of human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) have been recorded in Central Visayas from January to September this year, data from the Department of Health-CV showed. Data showed that the province of Cebu has the most HIV/AIDS cases...
ILOILO CITY – Nineteen graduates of the West Visayas State University (WVSU) in this city landed in the Top 10 of the Nurse Licensure Examination (NLE) conducted by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) this month. THE 19 nursing graduates of the West Visayas State University (WVSU)...
ILOILO CITY – Three micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from Western Visayas region won the Small Enterprise Technology Upgrading Program (SETUP) PRAISE award in the recent 2022 National Science and Technology Week (NSTW) in Manila. DOST-6 Director Rowen Gelonga (second from left) poses...
