The Police Regional Office in Western Visayas (PRO 6) seized a total of P2,210,000 worth of shabu and arrested three high-value drug suspects in separate anti-illegal drug operations across Panay Island on March 8, 2024.
ROAD CLEARING. A personnel of the Iloilo City Public Safety and Transportation Management Office (PSTMO) conducts road-clearing operations to ensure the smooth flow of traffic. PSTMO head Jeck Conlu said Friday (Aug. 19, 2022) they would continue to conduct the road clearing to avoid traffic congestion as classes resume on August 22.(PNA photo courtesy of PSTMO FB page) ILOILO CITY - Preparations are in place to ensure a smooth traffic flow and safe travel for the opening of classes on August 22 in this highly urbanized city of Iloilo. Jeck Conlu, head of the Iloilo City Public Safety and Transportation Management Office (PSTMO), said Friday they have established the Task Force Balik Eskwela composed of the Iloilo City Police Office, Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB), and the Land Transportation Office (LTO) to monitor the movements of students and ensure their safety. "We are asking (for) the cooperation of everyone. Let us follow our enforcers on the r
PEACEFUL. Personnel of the Antique Provincial Police during their deployment for peaceful and orderly elections on May 5, 2022. Antique Provincial Police Office information officer Staff Sgt. John Mark Gonzaga said on Monday (May 9, 2022) no election-related incident has been monitored.(PNA file photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Policemen on poll duties will have to secure the vote counting machines until these are returned to the warehouses, an official of the Antique Provincial Police Office (APPO) said on Monday. "We assure that the police will be securing the polling precincts until it closes," APPO information officer John Mark Gonzaga said in an interview. Gonzaga said 75 percent of the registered voters were able to cast their votes as of noontime but the police would have to secure the VCMs until the last voter at 7 p.m. and until the machines are returned to the warehouses. The APPO added that they did not monitor any election-
DIFFERENT JOBS. Third and last term Gov. Rhodora Cadiao (left) and her political rival Vicente Fedelicio share their plans during the candidates' forum on Thursday (April 27, 2022). They said they will provide alternative livelihood for the "sacada" if elected.(PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Candidates seeking the gubernatorial post in Antique have agreed to provide alternative livelihood for sugar migrants (sacada) working in Negros Occidental should any of them get elected in the May 9 elections. Neophyte candidate Vicente Fedelicio, who is challenging third and last termer Governor Rhodora Cadiao, said he would like to end the problem of sugar migrants. "Never will I send a 'sacada' to Negros Occidental because of their deplorable situation," he said during the candidates' forum organized by the local media together with the Commission on Elections and the Antique Provincial Police Office on Thursday.
CANDIDATES FORUM. Antique candidates for vice governor Provincial Board Member Vincent Piccio III (left) and third termer Edgar Denosta during the Candidates' Forum on Tuesday (April 26, 2022) held at theBarbaza Cooperative Building in San Jose de Buenavista. Both Denosta and Piccio said that they will work to increase the educational assistance for poor students.(PNA photo by Annabel Consuelo J. Petinglay) SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique - Two candidates for vice governor in Antique Province on Tuesday vowed to raise the budget for the educational assistance of poor students should they win the May 9, 2022 elections. Reelectionist Vice Governor Edgar Denosta, who is seeking his third and final term, said during the Candidates' Forum at theBarbaza Cooperative Building in San Jose de Buenavista that he will work to double the budget to help more students. "Antique Governor Rhodora J. Cadiao (his running mate) and I had already discussed that we will work to double the budge