POOLED EDITORIAL | The Prez and the Press
REGRETTABLY, the conversation between President-elect Rodrigo Duterte and the news media has turned sharp and shrill. All but lost in…
Big mob set to welcome Duterte on 30
ILOILO City – The multi-sectoral alliance Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) – Western Visayas is set to welcome president-elect Rodrigo Duterte…
Western Visayas People’s Agenda
ILOILO City – Various organizations and sectoral groups crafted last June 18 the Western Visayas People’s Agenda, a document containing…
THE BEEKEEPER: NIA desperate for the mega dam in Iloilo
By Pet Melliza Manny Piñol, incoming agriculture secretary, must have shivered the spines of some bureaucrats of the National Irrigation…
UNREADY | Ilonggos welcome K-to-12 opening with protest, cites lack of classroom, short-time classes, and high cost of education
ILOILO City – Parents, students and youth members of alliance Ilonggos Against K to 12 rush to different schools early…
Not a single food pack for El Niño stricken farmers
ILOILO City – For eight months now, peasant group Pamanggas claimed that the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD)…
El Niño-affected Ilonggo peasants demand food aid
ILOILO City – The broadest peasant alliance in Western Visayas, Pamanggas, continues their demand for the release of food subsidy…
NPA ambush claims 5 army casualties – JPEC
CAPIZ, Panay Island – The Jose Percival Estocada Jr. Command (JPEC) of the New People’s Army (NPA) in Central Panay on…
61st IB attempts to derail preparations for IP’s assembly
TAPAZ, Capiz – Indigenous peoples tumandok, in preparation for their regional assembly, the largest gathering of IPs in the island, are…
Bayan WV condemns Kidapawan massacre; Aquino, Mar hands drenched in blood
ILOILO City – Bayan Western Visayas strongly condemns in highest possible terms the violent and brutal dispersal by Kidapawan police…