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ILOILO CITY Mayor Jose Espinosa III weds a young couple at the Association of Barangay Captain (ABC)-Jarooffice in Jaro Plaza on Apr. 10, 2018. The mayor temporarily held office for a day at ABC Jaro office. (Ricky D. Alejo)
ILOILO City Engineering Office personnel paint the arc located at the entrance of Jaro Plaza, Apr. 10, 2018. Mayor Jose Espinosa III ordered the beautification and lighting of district plazas to make the place safe at night and to encourage the public to use public open spaces. (Ricky D. Alejo)
NATIONAL MUSEUM (NM) director Jeremy Barns (3rd from right) and Iloilo Governor Arthur Defensor Sr. (4th from right) unveil the marker of the former Iloilo Rehabilitation Center/Provincial Jail of Iloilo, which is now the Western Visayas Regional Museum, Apr. 11, 2018. Also in photo are Iloilo City Rep. Jerry Treñas, NM Assistant Regional Director Ana Marie Theresa Labrador, and members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Iloilo. (Ricky D. Alejo)
SENATOR Cynthia Villar (left) vowed to helpIloilo 4th district Rep. Ferjenel Biron in elevating the Iloilo State College of Fisheries (ISCOF) in Barotac Nuevo, Iloilo into a state university.(Louine Hope Conserva)
A PORTION of Luna St. in LaPaz, Iloilo City, which appears to be in good condition, undergoes repair courtesy of the Department of Public Works and Highways. (Ricky D. Alejo)
TRIBU Panayanon, the 2018 Dinagyang festival champion, needs at least P6 million to dominate the Aliwan Festival in Metro Manila. (Ricky Alejo)
COUNCILOR Paulo Edison Dela Rita of Guihulngan City, Negros Oriental was gunned down by motorcycle-riding suspects on April 2, 2018. (Photo by Art Tayhopon/Aksyon Radyo-Bacolod)
IT’S back to reality for some vacationers who spent their Holy Week break in Guimaras Island as they board an Iloilo City-bound pump boat at Jordan town. An estimated 40,000 tourists went to the island-province between March 29 and 31, 2018, according to tourism officials. (F. A. Angelo)
AN ELDERLY receives her social pension from a staffer of the Iloilo City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) at the Iloilo City Hall recently. The city government on March 26, 2018 released more than P500,000 for the social pensions of 198 senior citizens in the city for the third and fourth quarters of 2017. (Ricky D. Alejo)
BRAINSTORMING Iloilo City Councilors Joshua Alim, Ed Peñaredondo and Reyland Hervias (clockwise from left) tackle the request of Iloilo City District Jail Male Dorm warden Superintendent Vicente Papelera for the city council to pass an ordinance penalizing any jail visitor caught sneaking cellphones and other contrabands inside the jail facility. The supposed ordinance will have more teeth than the disciplinary sanctions imposed by the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology on all jails nationwide. (J. Britanico/BJMPVICRS)
SUSPECTED “motornapper” Rommel John Robles (center), 21, of Barangay Canoan, Estancia, Iloilo was arrested on April 5, 2018 after he tried selling his loot via Facebook. (J. P. Rendon)
ILOILO City Mayor Jose Espinosa III (left), City Engineer Roberto “Bobby” Divinagracia, LEEO chief Jose Ariel Castañeda and market vendor representatives inaugurate the P1.5-million toilet at the Central Market on Apr. 4, 2018.(Ricky Alejo)
CHRISTIAN GESTURE.Father Robert Locsin, a Roman Catholic priestof the Marian Missionaries of the Holy Cross, kisses the foot of an inmate roleplaying as one of Christ’s disciple during a Lenten season visitation at Talisay City Jail, Talisay City, Negros Occidental. (Jimmy Britanico, BJMP-6 CRS)
AGRICULTURE officials led by Secretary Manny Piñol (left)inspects grains sold at La Paz Market, Iloilo City on Aug. 30, 2017. Also in photo are (from right) DA-6 regional director RemelynRecoter, Assistant Secretary for the Visayas Hansel Didulo, and Bulacan businessman JojoSoliman. The NFA in Western Visayas said the region is sufficient in rice even if government-subsidized grains have run out. (Ricky D. Alejo)
WORDS hailing communist rebels and urging people to join the revolution are spray-painted on a bridge in Iloilo City. (J. P. Rendon)
THE viral photos of the Iloilo River banks before and after it was planted with mangroves by the Ilonggo biking community. (Courtesy of ATMOS.PH/Eric Barbosa photos)
THE Iloilo City Community College is one of the 78 local colleges in Western Visayas that will enjoy free tuition and other school fees provided by Republic Act No. 10931 (Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act of 2017), according to the Commission on Higher Education.(Photo from www.icccph.com)
THE unbridled development in Boracay Island is the cause of its environmental woes, but haphazard rehabilitation efforts could lead to bigger losses for the country’s tourism gem. (F. A. Angelo)
TWO kids on a trisikad don’t mind the danger they face as they trudge on the busy Diversion Road in Mandurriao, Iloilo City. Enforcement of traffic rules and regulations remain a major problem in growing cities like Iloilo. (FAA)
SAPIAN, Capiz Mayor Arthur John Binas (left) administers the oath of senior Sangguniang Bayan member Ralph Odrunia as the new vice mayor of the town, replacing the late Vice Mayor Cris Obordo, on April 10, 2018.(Photo by SB Member Marben Obligar Cordero)
ILOILO CITY Mayor Jose Espinosa III welcomes USA Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Y. Kim during the latter's visit to the Iloilo City Hall on April 19, 2018. (Iloilo City Government photo)
THE ongoing road and drainage construction in Boracay has affected the flow of traffic of vehicles plying the island. The government aims to finish widening the island’s 4.8-kilometer main road by 70 percent in July or August 2018. (J. P. Rendon)