TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Health-Eastern Visayas Center for Health Development has reported 9,577 dengue cases and 21 deaths so far this year, a 264 percent increase compared to the same period last year with 2,630 cases and nine fatalities. Leyte has the highest number...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Health-6 logged 3,490 dengue cases in the Western Visayas region from August 11 to 17. Dr. Bea Camille Fillaro-Natalaray, medical coordinator for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases, said in a press conference on Tuesday, August 27, that seven deaths...
CEBU CITY – Police seized suspected shabu valued at more than P10 million in a two-day operation in Central Visayas. The Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) reported that 1.5 kilos of shabu were seized and 43 suspected drug pushers were arrested from August 22 to 23. In the seven...
CEBU CITY – An additional 19 barangays in Central Visayas have been declared as drug-cleared in the recent deliberation of the Regional Oversight Committee on Barangay Drug Clearing (ROCBDC). Twelve are in Bohol, four in Negros Oriental, and three in Cebu. Two barangays in Pamplona, Negros...
ILOILO CITY – The Office of Civil Defense-6 has released almost P162-million worth of aid to families affected by the El Niño climate phenomenon in Western Visayas and the eruption of Kanlaon Volcano in Negros Occidental. FERNANDEZ (left). (PIA-6) Bulk of the aid was for El Niño...
TACLOBAN CITY – Two New People’s Army leaders in Eastern Visayas surrendered to the military this week. Alias Leo, alias Omer or Lovely, leader of Squad 2, Sub-Regional Guerilla Unit (SRGU), and alias Mael, finance officer of P2, Front Committee 15, both from the Sub-Regional Committee (SRC)...
ILOILO CITY – Police arrested 310 wanted persons in Western Visayas from August 1 to 15. WANKY The Police Regional Office-6 said they were apprehended in 287 operations. Forty-four were most wanted persons and 266 were other wanted persons (OWPs). “The arrest of these law violators is of great...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Health-Eastern Visayas Center for Health Development (DOH-EVCHD) reported a significant surge in dengue cases in the region. A total of 7,145 cases have been recorded, with 18 fatalities, from January to August 10, a staggering 187 percent increase...
CEBU CITY – A mother and son were arrested for allegedly selling illegal drugs in Barangay Buhisan here. Scifi Castaño, 29, and his 47-year-old mother Jade were nabbed in a buy-bust operation conducted by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-Central Visayas on Thursday night, August...
ILOILO CITY — The University of the Philippines (UP)-Visayas denied that its campuses in this city and province of Iloilo are recruitment grounds for the New People’s Army (NPA). THE University of the Philippines (UP)-Visayas campus in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) “UP-Visayas is a safe space where...
ILOILO CITY – The Police Regional Office-6 seized suspected shabu worth P11.25 million in Western Visayas in one week. THE PRO-6 seized suspected shabu worth P11.25 million in Western Visayas from August 5 to 11. (PNP/PRO-6/RPIO-6) Police Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky, PRO-6 director, in a...
