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The Iloilo City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) and General Services Office (GSO) will be organizing a citywide clean-up this weekend, July 20. Activities will officially start at 7:00 p.m. with fire engines setting off sirens, along with the ringing of church bells. Meanwhile, Iloilo City Councilor Allan Zaldivar, who chairs the Sangguniang Panlungsod …

Recently-installed company president calls for unity By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Olivia Yanson, matriarch of the Yanson clan that runs Vallacar Transit Inc. (VTI), parent company of the Ceres Bus Liner, yesterday penned an open letter calling on her children to end their attempts at taking over bus terminals. “The past weeks have been difficult …

Company president, drivers collaborate to condemn the scheme By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga After four Philippine Agricultural, Commercial, and Industrial Workers Union-Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (PACIWU-TUCP) officials were accused of attempting to launch a “fake strike” against Vallacar Transit Inc. (VTI), parent company of the Ceres Bus Liner, they are currently under fire …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga The New People’s Army (NPA) insurgent killed during the encounter over the weekend was recently identified. Authorities said the suspected rebel was 22-year-old Joseph Pacheco, a resident of Barangay Buenavista in Himamaylan City, Negros Occidental. Pacheco’s remains were positively identified by his mother Julita, who recognized a “burn scar” on …

By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Following power outages plaguing Bacolod City this week, Central Negros Electric Cooperative (Ceneco) officer-in-charge, Engr. Jose Taniongon, blamed the incidents on heavy rains and bad weather conditions brought on by Tropical Storm Falcon. Several areas of the city was without electricity between Tuesday and yesterday including Barangays Villamonte, Estefania, Granada, …

Policy would only apply to Iloilo City Hall employees An ordinance suggesting a stress/burnout leave option for Iloilo City Hall employees recently passed its first reading before the Sangguniang Panlungsod. “Kung kaisa, may times kasakit sang tiyan naton which we don’t understand why; we have this trangkaso nga wala man kita cold and cough but …

Gamboa: The ‘joint venture’ is a takeover By Dominique Gabriel G. Bañaga Bacolod City Councilor Wilson Gamboa, Jr. continued to lambast the Bacolod City Water District (Baciwa) Board of Directors by outrightly calling the utility firm’s proposed joint venture with PrimeWater Infrastructure Corporation “a takeover and not a partnership investment.” “PrimeWater will use Baciwa as …