The death toll from Tropical Storm “Quinta” that hit central Philippines on Christmas Day climbed to 17 on Friday as authorities began surveying the damage to thousands of hectares of farmlands.
The Iloilo provincial government will be sending P2 million in assistance to Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley, two worst-hit areas of Typhoon “Pablo.”
The Iloilo City Council has placed the city under a state of calamity not due to flooding brought by Typhoon “Pablo” but because of varying levels of water shortage in almost a third of the city’s 180 barangays.
Authorities are reviewing security measures at Iloilo Airport following a breach that allowed a nonpassenger, a boy said to be mentally disturbed, to board an aircraft that was preparing to take off.
The authorities are reviewing security at the Iloilo Airport following a breach that allowed a non-passenger, a boy said to be mentally disturbed, to board an aircraft that was preparing to take off early this week.
Police on Wednesday arrested one of two suspects in the murder of a broadcaster in Negros Occidental.
Devotees in Cebu and Iloilo are gearing for the annual feast of the Holy Child Jesus. At least 20,000 devotees joined the dawn procession in Cebu on Thursday that signals the start of the novena preceding the feast of the Sto. Niño on Jan. 15.
The province of Aklan was declared under a state of calamity Wednesday after floods destroyed at least 81 houses and damaged 363 others in two towns.
The local government of Ormoc, Leyte, where flash floods killed more than 5,000 people two decades ago, has joined the growing list of humanitarian donors for the victims of Tropical Storm “Sendong.”
Twenty four houses were damaged in Iloilo City, Iloilo in Panay Tuesday morning when a whirlwind swept across parts of the city, authorities said.
ILOILO CITY—The Philippine Coast Guard and operators of the ill-fated MV Asia Malaysia are rushing operations for the possible siphoning of the vessel’s remaining fuel to prevent an oil spill. Commodore Athelo Ybañez, Coast Guard Western Visayas commander, said on Sunday that divers were assessing the position and situation of the vessel, some three miles [...]
ILOILO CITY, Philippines – President Benigno Aquino III on Friday inaugurated a P20-billion, 164-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Iloilo City’s La Paz District, citing the plant as a great boost to the entire Visayas power grid. The President said that with the operation of the Panay Energy Development Corp.’s facility in Barangay Ingore, daily rotational [...]
ILOILO CITY, Philippines—Fire damaged a power generating set and the one-room structure that housed it at a hotel on Boracay Island Thursday afternoon. No one was injured and no other structures were damaged in the 15-minute fire that hit the Microtel Hotel in Barangay (village) Balabag around 5:20 p.m., Boracay fire marshall Senior Inspector Rodolfo [...]
