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ILOILO CITY—The city government confirmed Wednesday, January 5, 2022, the city’s first recorded person infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant. In a Facebook post, Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas said a 46-year-old male seafarer from Arevalo District…
ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines — Tourists are arriving on Boracay Island in trickles after government agencies confirmed that a recent visitor, who was part of a group of Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) personnel, tested positive for…
ILOILO CITY, Iloilo, Philippines — The reopening of Boracay Island to local tourists after months of lockdown on Tuesday was marred by the confirmation that a female employee of the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP), who…
ILOILO CITY—Nearly 700 foreign tourists, including 500 in Boracay, trapped by COVID-19 travel restrictions in Western Visayas had been extracted and flown to Manila and Cebu to return to their countries. From March 19 and 23, the…
Updated @ 1:20 a.m., Feb. 11, 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Four more Filipinos aboard a cruise ship quarantined off Yokohama, Japan, tested positive on Sunday for the new coronavirus, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) reported on…
ILOILO CITY –– Three Chinese nationals confined at the provincial hospital of Aklan for possible novel coronavirus or 2019-nCoV infection were released on Tuesday morning, health officials said. Dr. Cornelio Cuachon Jr., Aklan provincial health officer, said…
ILOILO CITY, Philippines — Her coaches encouraged her to wear running shoes to protect her feet. But 11-year-old Rhea Bullos still preferred to run barefoot. “It’s as if something is restraining my feet,” she told the Inquirer…
ILOILO CITY, Philippines — Nudity and wearing “extremely skimpy” swimsuits in public areas may soon be prohibited on Boracay Island. The municipal council of Malay in Aklan province, where the world famous Boracay beaches are located, is…
ILOILO CITY–Unidentified armed men gunned down two members of a human rights fact-finding mission and wounded another in Bayawan City in Negros Oriental on Tuesday afternoon. The fatalities included Elisa Badayos, 59, Negros Oriental coordinator of the…
President declares Oct. 26 a nonworking holiday in Cebu to allow Cebuanos to attend Vidal’s interment Even in death, Cebu Archbishop Emeritus Ricardo Cardinal Vidal still played the role of a peacemaker. President Rodrigo Duterte put aside…
ILOILO CITY—The assignment of controversial police official Chief Insp. Jovie Espenido to this city has been canceled, the Western Visayas police office announced on Saturday. Espenido will remain under the Northern Mindanao police office, Chief Supt. Cesar…
They are battle-experienced soldiers, but they unabashedly shed tears and hugged their wives, children and other loved ones as they left Iloilo on Saturday to beef up government troops fighting the Islamic State-inspired Maute terror group in…
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