Iloilo City to ring in New Year with musical fireworks display

Perla Lena 12/03/2024

ILOILO CITY – Ilonggos can expect an exciting New Year countdown with a musical fireworks display at Drilon Bridge on Dec. 31, 2024. The 12- to 15-minute show will be free for the public, with a view…

Dumaguete pushed as UNESCO creative city

Mary Judaline Partlow 11/09/2024

DUMAGUETE CITY – Dumaguete, the provincial capital of Negros Oriental, has been chosen as one of two Philippine endorsements to the 2025 UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) in the field of Literature. Quezon City is the other…

Negros Island Region: Negros Occ Gov. Lacson signs IRR

Nanette Guadalquiver 10/03/2024

BACOLOD CITY, Negros Occidental–Negros Occidental Governor Eugenio Jose Lacson expressed optimism on the full operation of the Negros Island Region as he signed the implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of the NIR Act on Wednesday, October 2,…

Negros Island Region: NegOr governor welcomes reformation of NIR 

Morexette Marie B. Erram 03/14/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines – Negros Oriental Governor Chaco Sagarbarria welcomed the passage of the bill seeking to reform the Negros Island Region (NIR). Speaking to reporters at the sidelines of the Regional Development Council in Central Visayas…

Finding love: Which PH city, regions to go to

Christina Eloisa Baclig 02/14/2023

MANILA, Philippines—A previous poll once found that most of the population in the Philippines reported feeling loved on a typical day. New studies showed where precisely in the country is the most loving city and where to…

In Visayas, youth leaders help local communities better discern COVID-19

Carlo Jacob Molina - Social Media Specialist 05/23/2020

MANILA, Philippines — As misinformation and disinformation on COVID-19 spread at an alarming rate, a network of youth organizations in the Visayas region in the central Philippines has beefed up efforts to help local communities better understand…

BFP-7: Search and retrieval ops in landslide site continue amid return of responders to respective regions

Morexette B. Erram 10/04/2018

Several responders from other regions will now be going home two weeks after the landslide struck in Brgy. Tinaan, Naga City, Cebu. At least 45 rescuers from the Special Rescue Unit of the Bureau of Fire Protection…

MINING HALTED IN 8 REGIONS

Ador Vincent S. Mayol, JOSE SANTINO BUNACHITA 09/22/2018

  In the wake of the recent tragedies in Cebu and Benguet that many blamed on quarrying and mining activities, President Rodrigo Duterte last night announced that he would consider suspending mining activities in most parts of…

PRO-7 ready to give aid to affected regions by Ompong

Nestle L. Semilla 09/17/2018

Chief Supt. Debold Sinas, director of Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7), announced that the red alert status for typhoon Ompong has been lifted. He said that no casualty was recorded in Central Visayas during the…

Poe: Release calamity fund to affected food-producing regions

Inquirer.net 09/15/2018

SENATOR Grace Poe has asked government to speed up the release of calamity funds for typhoon-hit Cagayan Valley, to ensure that the region can “replant, rebuild, and restore its farm output and facilities.” “One-fourth of the corn…

Global Filipino Schools program reaches all 17 regions in PH

PR 07/31/2018

Around 214 schools across the 17 regions in the Philippines, latest of which are those in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM), are being equipped with information and communications technology (ICT) tools and methodologies on 21st-century…

Malasakit center to expand to other regions

Rosalie O. Abatayo 05/20/2018

The One-Stop Malasakit Center in Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center has already serviced at least 13,000 persons and spent about P50 million funds since it started operating in February 2018. The project which was adapted from the…

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