PBA All-Stars set for grand return with new drafting format

Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:34:50 +0000

By REYNALD MAGALLON The PBA All-Star Weekend is set for a grand return in Passi, Iloilo on March 9 to 12 with new flavors in store. Left frozen for the past two years during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Commissioner Willie Marcial formally announced the return of the annual festivities and laid out the […]

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Marina OKs operations of passenger motor bancas plying Iloilo-Guimaras route

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:24:05 +0000

MANILA, Philippines — Subject to conditions, the Maritime Industry Authority (Marina) on Tuesday lifted its earlier suspension order on the operations of passenger motor bancas

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Duterte to visit Guimaras; condole with kin of those who died in capsized boats

Credit to Author: mfrialde| Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2019 07:26:34 +0000

Duterte to visit Guimaras; condole with kin of those who died in capsized boats

MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte will visit Guimaras province on Wednesday to condole with the families of those who died

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Death toll now 26 in Iloilo, Guimaras sea tragedy

Credit to Author: hniitsu| Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2019 06:12:17 +0000

Death toll now 26 in Iloilo, Guimaras sea tragedy

Nine more bodies of passengers of three motorboats that capsized on Saturday (Aug 3) in the waters between Iloilo City and Guimaras Island were recovered on Sunday (Aug 4) raising the death toll to 26.

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8 persons dead, 31 rescued as 3 boats capsize in Visayas

Credit to Author: clopez| Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 09:58:04 +0000

8 persons dead, 31 rescued as 3 boats capsize in Visayas

Eight persons died and 31 others were rescued after three passenger motorboats capsized in the waters between Iloilo and Guimaras Island on Saturday afternoon due to strong winds and huge waves.

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Iloilo placed under state of calamity amid rising dengue cases

Credit to Author: kadraneda| Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 12:49:19 +0000

Iloilo placed under state of calamity amid rising dengue cases

The Iloilo provincial board on Tuesday placed the province under a state calamity due to continuing increase of dengue cases.

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ACT party-list seeks House inquiry on alleged police profiling of UP employees in Iloilo

Credit to Author: dmorcoso| Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 06:51:57 +0000

ILOILO CITY –– The ACT Teachers party-list group on Tuesday filed a proposed House resolution seeking a congressional inquiry into alleged police profiling of members of the University of the Philippines (UP) employees in Iloilo. The three-page proposed resolution also condemns the “intelligence monitoring” on members of the Iloilo chapter of the All UP Academic […]

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Dengue outbreak declared in Iloilo

Credit to Author: besguerra| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 21:18:24 +0000

ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines — The number of dengue cases in Iloilo province for the first half of this year is nearing 4,000, prompting Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. to declare an outbreak.

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Suspicion over armed gov’t agents sparks people power at Iloilo village

Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 12:35:10 +0000

Screenshots of the two men who were accosted and briefly held by officials and residents of Barangay Bito-on in Jaro District in Iloilo City after they went to the house of a leader of a militant urban poor organization (Contributed photos)

Officials and residents of a village here on Sunday (July 4) accosted and briefly detained two armed men believed to be targeting a leader of a militant urban poor organization.

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