Ynion concedes to Mabilog in Iloilo City’s mayoral race
By Nestor P. Burgos Jr.
Businessman Rommel Ynion has conceded defeat to reelectionist Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog in the mayoral race of Iloilo City.
Businessman Rommel Ynion has conceded defeat to reelectionist Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog in the mayoral race of Iloilo City.
The fiercely fought mayoralty race of Iloilo City comes to a close on Monday after months of often acrimonious campaigning rarely seen in the city’s recent electoral history.
Police arrested a mayoral candidate of Iloilo City for alleged tax evasion cases during a political caucus here Wednesday evening.
President Benigno Aquino is inclined to support the retrofitting of an old building for use as the city’s new Hall of Justice.
Heavily armed men robbed a pawnshop in downtown Iloilo City Saturday morning fleeing with an undetermined amount of jewelry, a police official said.
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.
An online family history organization has recorded the baptism of a woman surnamed “Calungsod” in 1748 in Iloilo City, one of the Visayan areas believed to be the birthplace of Blessed Pedro Calungsod.
Since she was a child, Ana Calunsod-Arquillo has known well a story told by her father, Cornelio, and handed down to at least eight generations: One of their ancestors—a young boy—had died with a priest on a Pacific island centuries ago.
A citizen watchdog is seeking a Senate investigation on alleged irregularities in the construction of a 25-meter bridge in Jaro District in Iloilo City.
A party-list representative has decided to take the normal route to a seat in the House of Representatives, filing his certificate of candidacy (COC) for representative in the lone district of Aklan in a bid apparently supported by the ruling Liberal Party (LP).
A commotion erupted at the Commission on Elections (Comelec) office in Pavia town in Iloilo on Friday after the family of a candidate tried to prevent the filing of his candidacy for mayor.
It’s Iloilo City’s latest fun place, where people can jog, walk, hold a picnic or just enjoy the scenery.
A woman was killed and five other persons were injured when strong winds caused by Tropical Storm Gener uprooted a large tamarind tree and sent it crashing down on a makeshift eatery in the Villa Arevalo District of Iloilo City Tuesday evening, the authorities said.
