ILOILO CITY – The Office of the Ombudsman in the Visayas has been asked to probe Mayor Cresente Chavez Jr. of Jordan town, Guimaras province over the alleged illegal passage of a resolution with a P9.9-million funding. CHAVEZ (Jordan LGU) A resident of the municipality wrote a letter of...
ILOILO CITY – Police Col. Rhea Santos, chief of the Guimaras Police Provincial Office (GPPO), has ordered a deeper probe on the brutal killing of an elderly couple in San Lorenzo, Guimaras. MAP of Guimaras with the town of San Lorenzo highlighted. Santos said that the GPPO...
ILOILO CITY – Sen. Imee Marcos has vowed to provide P10 million as additional funding to upgrade a district hospital in the island-province of Guimaras. SEN. Imee Marcos (second from left) meets Gov. JC Rahman Nava (right), Rep. Maria Lucille Nava (third from left), and Vice Gov. John Edward...
ILOILO CITY – Residents of this city, Iloilo province, and the island-province of Guimaras will not have a convenient and easy Sunday as the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines will impose a 12-hour blackout in these areas to conduct maintenance activities. In an advisory, the power...
ILOILO CITY – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)-6 (Western Visayas) has sought the creation of a Regional Steering Committee (RSC) to properly coordinate preparations for the proposed bridges connecting the islands of Panay, Guimaras, and Negros. A PERSPECTIVE of the...
ILOILO CITY – The provincial government of Guimaras has earned the Good Financial Housekeeping status from the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG). DOMESTIC tourists pose for a selfie in front of the Guimaras provincial capitol. (Tara Yap) Guimaras was one of the 68...
ILOILO CITY – Police on Saturday, January 20, filed murder and frustrated murder charges against a 22-year-old man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and wounded her new boyfriend in Buenavista town, Guimaras province on Friday afternoon, January 19. READ:...
ILOILO CITY – A man shot and killed his graduating ex-girlfriend and wounded her new boyfriend inside a state university on the island-province of Guimaras on Friday afternoon, January 19. A WOMAN was shot dead by her ex-boyfriend inside the Guimaras State University on Friday. Police...
ILOILO CITY – Police Col. Rhea E. Santos has been installed as the new Guimaras police chief. Santos took the helm of the Guimaras Police Provincial Office (GPPO) in a turnover ceremony in Camp Delgado, the Police Regional Office-6 headquarters based here. SANTOS (PRO-6) Police Brig. Gen. Sidney...
ILOILO CITY – A group of artists recently collaborated with artisans from Iloilo and Guimaras to highlight local arts and crafts. HIMBON artists with artisans from Barangay Cagbang, Miag-ao, Iloilo. (Himbon photo) In “Simpon: Melding Ilonggo Arts and Crafts,” the Himbon Contemporary Ilonggo...
ILOILO CITY – The National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA)-6 said the proposed bridge linking the islands of Panay and Guimaras will be constructed and completed by the end of the Marcos administration. A PERSEPECTIVE of the proposed Panay-Guimaras-Negros bridge. (DPWH) “It is...
ILOILO CITY – Unlike other barangays in the country, nobody voted in the barangay elections in the island-barangay of Inampulugan, Sibunag, Guimaras on Monday, October 30. SUNSET at Inampulugan Island in Sibunag town, Guimaras province. (Costa Aguada Island Resort) “Pinasahi ni nga...