Anti-coal groups haul Treñas to OmbudsmanEnvironmental groups and anti-coal plant advocates yesterday filed criminal and administrative charges against Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas for going on a trip to Taiwan sponsored by a company proposing the construction of a coal-fired plant in the city. Concepcion teener is latest rabies victimA 15 year-old high school student of Concepcion, Iloilo succumbed to the deadly rabies of a stray dog and became the latest fatality on record in the Province of Iloilo. |
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AFP bares planned hit on 5 brgy. captainsLives of at least five barangay captains in the Province of Iloilo are reportedly in danger following intelligence reports of planned assassinations. The "sample" hit job was supposedly Tuesday's daring broad daylight killing in Janiuay, Iloilo. Dead on the spot was Barangay Kipot village chief, Gerry Colaha who was shot at close range by two male shooters in their teens. |
The regional office of Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will undertake the completion of the P400 million Infante flyover.
Instead of bowing down to pressure, City Mayor Jerry Treñas called on drivers of public utility jeepneys (PUJs) belonging to towns under the defunct Metro Iloilo Development Council (MIDC) to bear the inconvenience as what the city is doing is for the good of the general public.
City Mayor Jerry Treñas has all the reasons to smile after Megaworld Corporation yesterday paid the P9 million transfer tax to the City Treasurers Office (CTO) for the 54-hectare old Iloilo airport. The payment could help in the city's current financial state.
Drivers associations belonging to the city loop routes expressed full support to the 30-day traffic experimentation being implemented by the city government.
Roxas City -- President Gloria Mcapagal-Arroyo wants more community-based drugstores in 2008 that will sell quality but affordable medicines as part of her efforts to make the gains made under her administration trickle down to the grassroots.
Kalibo, Aklan -- For implementing innovative projects and services in support of the nutrition programs of the government, the town of Nabas, located in the western part of Aklan was adjudged as Region 6'S Outstanding Municipality during the 18th Nutrition Congress held recently at the Grand Hotel in Iloilo City.
San Jose, Antique -- Psinsp Gilbert T Gorero and the men and women of the San Jose Municipal Police Station was recently awarded as the Most Citizen-Friendly Municipal Police Station for 2007 in the whole of Western Visayas last September 7, 2007 at Iloilo City during the Culminating Program of the Crime Prevention Week celebration.
Bacolod City -- The Masters in Public Administration class of the Carlos Hilado Memorial State College - Talisay Campus, turned over books to Bacolod City Jail-Female Section in Brgy. Handumanan recently.
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Due to the need to provide quality education to its clientele and to expand its educational scope, St. Joseph School (Iloilo), Inc. inaugurated its Our Lady of Lourdes Building last Sept. 22, 2007.
For Mara Posecion and her establishment called Mixes, it all started with pickles, specifically, ampalaya. Posecion, a food technologist whose forte is into pickling, jam and jellies, loves to work with fruits and vegetables. She would go to the wet market and buy items that other people ignored. Then, she would create something out of those.
Rizza June Java is certainly in class A herself. "Riz", as her friends fondly call her, is soft-spoken, modest almost to a fault, and un-poetically sweet, sometimes mistaken as snob, "maldita", unapproachable and "suplada". An ingenue who's not afraid to let loose and look a little silly, Rizza nevertheless possesses a depth and maturity beyond her 18 years.
SM City Iloilo was host to the ECD (Edwin C. Duero) Dance Company of the Philippines' "Arrival Performance" last Oct. 8, 2007 of the group who were sent by the Iloilo City Government to the United States to showcase Dinagyang Festival.