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	Road construction continues in northern Iloilo. Soon, travelers to the north (Ajuy, Sara and Estancia) will no longer suffer from dusty and bumpy roads which they have endured for quite a long time.
A. Chris Fernandez

Loan scam reaches Guimaras

Three months after the successful execution of a well-designed con loan in the Province of Antique, swindlers under the “Visayas Educators' League Incorporated” are at it again. The latest victims— government teachers from the Province of Guimaras.

CHR hears plaint vs. 'brutal' cop

The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) here is readying criminal and administrative charges against a policeman over a brutality complaint filed by a 21 year-old resident of Bo. Obrero, Lapuz, Lapaz.

Second wave revamp hits 10 cops

Ten policemen from the Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) were relieved anew from their respective assignments effective yesterday.

City to honor 40 top tax payers

The City Treasurer's Office has identified this year’s 20 top business taxpayers and twenty real property tax payers. They will be given due recognition for paying their taxes promptly to the city government.

Manhunt widens on gas station hold-up men

The manhunt is on and the area being searched has been widened to get a group of four men responsible in early Monday evening's hold-up of three gas stations' earnings.

All firecracker makers in city unlicensed

Practically all of the firecracker manufacturers in Arevalo district, the city's firecracker center, are illegally operating.

Steiner Education for a Visionary Philippines

GCI believes that Steiner education offers a way forward. "It's a proven approach that balances artistic, academic and practical work to educate the whole child—hand and heart as well as mind and is considered by many to be one of the most advanced educational systems in the world today,"

Earth statements: A fashion show for the environment

To help support these various projects, W.E. HEAL brings to you their biggest fundraising project to date – EARTH STATEMENTS: A Dinner / Fashion Show by Iloilo’s fashion prince, ERIC DE LOS SANTOS, one of the most sought after fashion designers in the metro today.

PANAY NEWS

All set for the 16th West Visayan Conference on History and Culture

The UPV-Center for West Visayan Studies in cooperation with the Office of Cultural Affairs Central Philippine University, cordially invites social/science teachers from public and private schools and universities, culture enthusiasts, artists, scholars and researchers, and representatives from government agencies and local government units in Western Visayas, to the 16th Conference on West Visayan History and Culture.

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