CEBU CITY – Fourteen municipal police stations under the Cebu Police Provincial Office (CCPO) received brand-new patrol cars from the Philippine National Police headquarters in Camp Crame, Quezon City. Police Brig. Gen. Anthony Aberin, chief of the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas, led...
Marinduque lone district Rep. Lord Allan Velasco (Facebook) If the House Committee on Energy chairman had any takeaway from the investigation on the widespread Western Visayas power outage, it's that no single agency or entity was solely at...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR)-8 announced that there is no shellfish ban in Eastern Visayas. BFAR-8 However, based on Shellfish Bulletin No. 1, Series of 2024, seawater samples collected from six areas in Eastern Visayas tested positive for Pyrodinium...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-6 (Western Visayas) released 113 young Olive Ridley sea turtles at world-famous Boracay Island in Malay town, Aklan province at the start of the New Year. “It gives us hope that these hatchlings were safely released into...
(Unsplash) Deputy Majority Leader Iloilo 3rd district Rep. Lorenz Defensor took to task government agencies for their perceived lack of action on the blackouts in Western Visayas, particularly in his home province. Defensor specifically called out the...
CEBU CITY – A 28-year-old man described as a “target-listed personality” was arrested in an anti-illegal drug operation in Barangay Kalunasan here on Monday afternoon, January 8. Charles Clue Aragon, a resident of Sitio Alaska, Barangay Mambaling, this city, was nabbed by agents of the...
The Senate Committee on Public Services is ready to evaluate the 25-year legislative franchise granted to the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). Senator Grace Poe, chairperson of the committee, disclosed this on Tuesday, January 9 amid the ongoing power crisis that...
AnaKalusugan Party-list Representative Ray T. Reyes on Tuesday, January 9 blamed the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines’ (NGCP) failure to execute most of its major projects saying this contributed heavily to the massive blackout in Western Visayas. For the longest time,...
ILOILO CITY – A 28-year-old man was killed and 293 individuals were injured by fireworks during the holiday season in Western Visayas. A STALL selling firecrackers in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) Dr. Fritzi Ann Suzette Jeroso-Dequito of the Department of Health-6 Health Promotion Unit said in an...
Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel (Facebook) Kabataan Party-list Rep. Raoul Manuel would rather see a national government take over of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) than the proposed involvement of the Maharlika Investment Corporation...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep, LRay Villafuerte is calling for the revocation of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines' (NGCP) franchise after its supposed refusal to own up to...
ILOILO CITY – Iloilo Gov. Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr. said the New Year blackout hampered the growth of Western Visayas. FEW lights illuminate downtown Iloilo City on January 4 following the massive blackout that started on January 2 and ended on January 5. (Tara Yap) “This problem will...
