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  Village officials in Iloilo City should allocate a budget for the acquisition and installation of a closed-circuit television (CCTV) system in their premises to boost the anti-criminality campaign. Maria Irene Ong, president of the Liga ng mga Barangay Iloilo City chapter, said barangays with no projects should consider the installation of CCTV. “Other barangays …

  The local government will temporarily allow sidewalk vending on selected streets in Iloilo City from December 10 to 31. Mayor Jerry Treñas signed Executive Order 151, providing guidelines and regulating the conduct of open sidewalk vendors. “In anticipation of the holiday celebrations, it is expected that as part of Filipino tradition, vendors set up …

  Two individuals died after a six-wheeler truck hit their motorcycle at Barangay 21 in Negros Occidental’s Victorias City early Friday morning, November 24. Police Major Joy Ellaga, Victorias police chief, said 23-year-old restaurant employee, Grace Telebrico, was driving a motorcycle with her employer, 40-year-old Julie Ann Broce, both residents of Victorias, and turned left …

  About 60 children walked the runway donning local handloom textiles or accessorized with products from Western Visayas in a community fashion show, adding color to the 2023 Panubli-on (heritage) trade fair organized by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). “The purpose is for children to have awareness, education and patronage of our local …

  A fishery technician of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said the appearance of tiny shrimps and megamouth sharks along Leyte and Negros Oriental shorelines has no connection with the 6.8 magnitude quake that struck portions of Mindanao recently. Johann Tejada, technical assistant of BFAR-Central Visayas, said the washing ashore of crustaceans …

  The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in Western Visayas (BFAR-6) recently gathered the fisheries stakeholders for the orientation on the Visayan Sea closed season, locally known as “Pahuway sang Baybay,” which started November 15 and will remain in force until February 15, 2024. According to BFAR-6, this seasonal closure covers selected species only, …

  Significant rains due to shear line caused flooding in Capiz and Aklan, affecting 15,464 families or 49,129 individuals in the two provinces, according to a report released by the Office of the Civil Defense in Western Visayas (OCD-6). “We are also waiting for reports from Iloilo, Negros Occidental, and Antique because they also have …

  The Philippine Coconut Authority (PCA) is targeting 338,649 coconut farmers in the four Central Visayas provinces to sign up with the National Coconut Farmers Registry System (NCFRS) so they can avail government’s funding for this sector. PCA Region 7 (Central Visayas) regional director Brendan Trasmonte told the Philippine News Agency yesterday that the farmers …

Police operatives have recovered components of an improvised explosive device (IED) in a remote mountain village in Negros Oriental’s Sta. Catalina town, as a result of sustained operations against the communist New People’s Army (NPA). Lt. Stephen Polinar, public information officer and deputy chief of the Police Community Affairs and Development Unit of the Negros Oriental Police …

The Department of Agriculture (DA) has allotted more than P161.6 million in cash assistance to 32,337 rice farmers in Negros Oriental in anticipation of the adverse effects of the El Niño phenomenon next year. Alejandro Rafal, DA-Negros Oriental Agricultural Program Coordinating Officer, told the Philippine News Agency on Monday, November 20, that the amount is …