ILOILO CITY – The city government is pushing for data-driven governance as a selected area for a Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) program. THE Iloilo City Hall at night. (Tara Yap) "We are aiming for data-driven governance that will firm up our decisions and...
ILOILO CITY – Police Regional Office-6 chief Police Brig. Gen. Sidney Villaflor has condemned the policeman who fired a gun in front of three civilians in this city. “We will not tolerate this kind of attitude within our ranks,” said Villaflor, two days after Police Staff Sgt. Nico F....
ILOILO CITY – The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) detained a passenger boat after a man jumped overboard while the vessel was transiting the Iloilo Gulf last week. BOAT crew attempts to rescue a man who jumped overboard from the Shady Slezh 2 on Friday, August 4. (Ylamme Grey/Facebook) ...
ILOILO CITY – Police Col. Joeresty Coronica, Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) chief, has ordered an investigation against a drunk police officer for allegedly taunting three young men and firing his weapon late Saturday night, August 5, in Jaro District here. The Jaro Police Station said the...
ILOILO CITY – The province of Iloilo is the recipient of medicines worth P13 million from an Indian business group. Iloilo Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. said the donation that can help boost medical services is a step in strengthening the ties between Iloilo and India. THE India Business Forum...
ILOILO CITY – Police seized suspected shabu worth P3.87 million from live-in partners in a buy-bust operation in this city on Tuesday, Aug. 1. Suspects were identified as 41-year-old Rene “John” Aguilar Paches and 29-year-old Jean “Neneng” Famucol Narciso. LIVE-IN partners Rene ‘John’...
ILOILO CITY — Sen. Imee Marcos has outright denied talks of that one of the sons of President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. is running for an elective post here. “Sinabi ko lang na may ganoong chismis. Nakiki-marites lang ako (I only said there were rumors. I was only joining the gossip),” the...
ILOILO CITY – The city government has limited the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages here until 12 midnight due to increasing bar fights and other criminal incidents. A DISCO bar in Iloilo City. (Tara Yap) “Due the rising numbers of establishments engaging in unregulated dispensation...
ILOILO CITY – Police arrested five brothers for allegedly selling shabu worth P408,000 in this city on Wednesday, July 26. Jovan, Jessie, Jamer, Jonel, and Joebert Billones were nabbed after they sold shabu to a police poseur-buyer. Police listed 35-year-old Jovan as a high-value drug pusher....
ILOILO CITY – Intermittent heavy rainfall from typhoon “Egay” flooded 70 out of the 180 barangays here. RESCUERS evacuate an elderly woman from her flooded home in Iloilo City on Thursday, July 27. (Iloilo City DRRMO) Data from the Iloilo City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office...
ILOILO CITY – A student from this city bagged a silver medal for the Philippines in the World Mathematics Invitational in South Korea. GIHUN Ng Yoo (St. Joseph School Iloilo) Gihun Ng Yoo, an incoming Grade 9 student at St. Joseph School Iloilo, bested 1,275 competitors from 17 countries in the...
ILOILO CITY – The nationwide transport strike on Monday, July 24, had minimal impact in this city and province of Iloilo. (https://images.mb.com.ph/production/mb-mkt-neo-prod-1-uploads/ILOILO_JEEPNEY_STRIKE_b6828bf632/ILOILO_JEEPNEY_STRIKE_b6828bf632.jfif) TWO jeepney drivers and operators join...
