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...
ILOILO CITY – Dengue cases in Western Visayas increased by 114 percent in the first six months of this year, the Department of Health-6 reported on Monday, August 12. The DOH-6 Regional Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit recorded 10,188 dengue cases from January 1 to August 3, 2024, 5,428...
CEBU CITY – The anti-crime campaign in Region 7 has been unrelenting, and, as a result, more than 62,000 crime suspects were arrested in the past two years, the Police Regional Office-Central Visayas (PRO-7) reported. The PRO-7 said that from June 30, 2022 to July 31, 2024, 62,347 individuals...
ILOILO CITY – The inflation rate in Western Visayas dropped to 4.8 percent in July, the Philippine Statistics Authority-6 said on Friday, August 9. THE La Paz Market in Iloilo City is abuzz with commercial activity. (Tara Yap) ida Amolar, PSA-6 officer-in-charge and chief statistical specialist,...
ILOILO CITY — Police arrested 111 wanted persons in Western Visayas region in two days. The Police Regional Office-6 apprehended 12 most wanted persons and 99 other wanted persons from 6 a.m. on August 5 to 6 a.m. on August 7. WANKY (PRO-6) Police Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky, PRO-6 director, said there...
Local communist groups seem to target students who are shy but smart. Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rose (Senate PRIB Photo) Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa pointed this out during the continuation of the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs hearing on the issue. Aside...
