CEBU CITY – Following the confirmation of the first case of monkeypox in the country, the Department of Health-Central Visayas (DOH-Region 7) assured the public that it has activated and intensified its surveillance activity against the viral disease. A PUBLIC health worker administers the...
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 – The Department of Agriculture (DA) supports the call of hog raisers to raise the price of live pigs in Western Visayas. PIGS are loaded into a truck in Dumagas, Iloilo for transportation. (Tara Yap) "Help support our local hog raisers by buying their stocks at P140 to P150 per kilo...
ILOILO CITY – The Office of Civil Defense (OCD)-Region 6 is seeking the assessment of the structural integrity of infrastructure across Western Visayas following the magnitude-7 earthquake in Northern Luzon Wednesday, July 26. In a July 27 memorandum, OCD-Region 6 director Jose Roberto Nuñez...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) in Eastern Visayas (Region 8) celebrated Wednesday, July 27, the eighth birth anniversary of the six 100-millionth symbolic babies in the region in terms of population count. PopCom-8 Director Elnora Pulma said this year's...
AERIAL photograph shows the flood that hit Capiz due to rains from tropical depression ‘Agaton’ last April. (Capiz Kabalaka Information Center) ILOILO CITY – An official of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) has said that massive flood control projects are needed in three major river systems...
ILOILO CITY – Dengue cases in Western Visayas are approaching almost 7,000. A MAKESHIFT hospital in a gym in Maasin, Iloilo during a dengue outbreak in 2019. (Leo Solinap/File/Manila Bulletin) The Department of Health (DOH) recorded 674 new dengue cases from July 10 to 16, bringing the total...
TACLOBAN CITY – Interior and Local Government Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. has ordered a probe to determine if the seven trainees of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP)-Region 8 (Eastern Visayas) who were rushed to the hospital due to muscle pain last July 6 underwent hazing. Fire Chief...
CEBU CITY – The chief of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO 7) has ordered unit commanders to observe maximum tolerance in protest actions in Central Visayas in the first State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Monday, July 25. Police...
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...
TEENAGE mothers attend an orientation in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental. (Popcom 6) ILOILO CITY – The Commission on Population (Popcom) reported Thursday, July 21, that teenage pregnancy is still high in Western Visayas or Region 6. The region had a slight decrease in teenagers giving birth, from...
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...
