ILOILO CITY – MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power), the sole power distributor here, is on alert for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections (BSKE) on October 30. MORE Power President Roel Castro (right) vows to Commission on Elections (Comelec)-Iloilo City chief Reinier Layson that...
Iloilo Mayor Jerry Trenas urged the Department of Transportation (DOTr) to expedite the privatization and improvement of the Iloilo International Airport and the Iloilo International port located in Lapuz. According to the Iloilo Local Development Council (LDC), the privatization of the air and...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Trade (DTI) has urged sustainable consumption in this city and the province of Iloilo. “These are old concepts, but we are reminding everyone to practice sustainable consumption,” said DTI-Iloilo Director Maria Dinda Tamayo on Consumer Welfare Month. A BAMBOO...
The Sandiganbayan has denied the motion filed by Iloilo City Councilor Plaridel C. Nava II to dismiss the graft charge filed against him as it ruled that the case should proceed to trial. Nava was charged together with former mayor Jed Patrick E. Mabilog with...
ILOILO CITY – The hybrid onsite and virtual streaming of the 2022 Dinagyang Festival here has again won a prestigious tourism award. The Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines Inc. (ATOP) declared the 2022 Dinagyang as the grand winner of the Best Cultural Festival Award-City...
ILOILO CITY – The world’s biggest book sale is coming to this city for the first time. Big Bad Wolf will hold a book sale at SM City Iloilo from October 13 to 22. ANDREW Yap, co-founder and managing editor of Big Bad Wolf book sale. Big Bad Wolf will hold a nine-day book sale in Iloilo...
ILOILO CITY – The Office of the Ombudsman has dismissed three graft charges against Romeo Caesar “Juncae” L. Manikan Jr., former chief of the Iloilo City Civil Registry Office. In three separate Ombudsman decisions, Manikan was cleared of alleged violation of Section 3(e) of Republic Act No....
ILOILO CITY – Police here are eyeing the creation of four new police stations to maintain peace and order in this city. POLICE assigned to Camp Plagata, headquarters of the Iloilo City Police Office. (PNP ICPO) Police Col. Joeresty Coronica, director of the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO),...
ILOILO CITY (PNA) – The top official of the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) in Western Visayas is “undesirable and unwelcome” here, with the city government declaring Regional Director Nora P. Patron as persona non grata on Thursday, September 28. In an interview on Friday, September...
ILOILO CITY – Six employees of the Iloilo City government were caught stealing cable wires and using government vehicle to transport them. Mayor Jerry Treñas here announced that one regular employee and five casual employees under the Iloilo City Engineer’s Office were allegedly involved...
ILOILO CITY – Police seized suspected shabu worth P6.67 million over the weekend in this city. Police Brig. Gen. Sidney Villaflor, Police Regional Office-6 chief, cited the accomplishment. “The series of arrest in Iloilo City is a result of a high-impact, intelligence-driven police...
ILOILO CITY – Despite no repairs done, the sinking flyover in Iloilo that was one of the last pet projects of former Ilonggo Sen. Franklin Drilon partially reopened on Friday, September 22. LIGHT vehicles use the Ungka Flyover in Iloilo as it partially reopens on Friday, September 22, despite...
