The Meralco Bolts captured their fourth consecutive win in the 2019 PBA Governors’ Cup after taking down the Columbian Dyip, 92-74, last night at the Smart Araneta Coliseum. Allen Durham top-scored for Meralco with a double-double on 34 points and 18 rebounds, while Raymond Almazan scored 18 points, and Chris Newsome added 10. The Bolts …
Monthly Archives: November 2019
Fake money is a problem everywhere
“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.” –Will Rogers Iloilo City Police Office (ICPO) director, Police Colonel Martin E. Defensor, Jr., recently appealed for local residents to be wary of counterfeit money during the holiday season. The issue of “fake money” is …
Robredo is certain to fail against drugs too
“…Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will…” –Romans 12:2 If President Rodrigo Duterte was unable to stop the proliferation of illegal drugs in his first three …
A ‘pig-less’ Christmas
“I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.” –Stephen Fry With Iloilo and Iloilo City banning the entry of pork products from areas affected by …
Dinagyang Festival 2020
Tickets available next month Tickets for the Dinagyang 360 tribes competition, an event of the annual Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City, will be available starting on December 9. According to tickets and stages in-charge Allan Tan, there are around 3,600 tickets available ranging in price from P1,500 to P2,200. “Dinagyang 360 is an arena theater-type …
Six soldiers arrested after causing disturbance inside Cadiz City bar
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Six members of the Philippine Army 79th Infantry Battalion were arrested early Thursday morning after causing a disturbance inside a Cadiz City bar. Police identified the arrested soldiers as Army Corporal Louie Tamparing; along with Private First Class John Anthony Jeminez, Johnny Gallano, Mark Vargas, Jerome Danias, and Regie Rogan. …
Bacolod City requests information over mass arrests
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The Bacolod City Sangguniang Panlungsod is requesting law enforcement agencies to provide information regarding the mass arrests they made last week. The local legislative body recently passed a resolution addressed to joint elements of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group-Region VI, Negros Occidental Provincial Police Office, Bacolod City Police Office, …
Cinco de Noviembre
Pulupandan school earns fancy drill three-peat Pulupandan’s Enriqueta Montilla de Esteban Memorial High School earned a three-peat in the annual Invitational Fancy Drill Competition, which took place in Bago City during the Cinco de Noviembre observance earlier this week. The school took home P25,000 for the win. In addition, they also won Best in Street …
Iloilo City pledges P2.7M for earthquake relief
The Iloilo City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) approved P2.7 million in financial assistance for nine Mindanao localities affected by the recent earthquakes. The city plants to provide P300,000 each to Kidapawan City, Makilala, Tulunan, M’lang, Digos City, Bansalan, Matanao, Magsaysay, and Kiblawan. City Hall is also gathering donations of food packs and …
Dumaguete City broadcaster shot and killed
By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga A Dumaguete City-based radio broadcaster was killed yesterday by riding-in-tandem gunmen in the city’s Barangay Piapi. Police identified the fatality as Dindo Generoso, a radio broadcaster for DyEM 96.7 Bai Radio and a resident of Barangay Banilad. Dumaguete City police chief, Police Lt. Colonel Wilfredo Alarcon, Jr., said the victim …