There will be more public utility jeepneys (PUJ) plying the roads of Iloilo City after the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has approved the 7 more routes for the city. These routes are now endorsed in the Iloilo City Council. Read also: The Ultimate Guide to Iloilo City Jeepney […]
Welcome to the Iloilo weekend dining planner, where She Mae Gomez compiles recommended restaurants, bars, and food pop-ups to check out over the weekend. These are the spots I also wanted to try myself or have already tried eating at recently around the city and province. The list includes a […]
The Department of Health (“DOH”) launched VaxCertPH, a website where you can get a digital vaccine certificate. This online portal would provide a more standard vaccine certificate that people can use when they travel or enter establishments requiring vaccine certificates. If you are unsure on how you can get your […]
Iloilo City will be one of the set locations for an upcoming Netflix’s mini-series. In a post by Mayor Jerry P. Treñas, he happily shared those directors from Studio Three Sixty came to his office informing him that they are filming a mini-series with Ian Veneracion and Andrea Torres to […]
The BDO Pay application is another development created to help make our payments from our BDO accounts. With BDO Pay, we can now scan QRs to pay in stores and at restaurants, Pay Bills, and Send Money. It is also a more convenient way asking people to pay you back […]
This post is originally written and posted by Nereo Cajilig Luján. The Sabine Haines Memorial Hospital was opened in 1905 on Iznart Street in Iloilo City, in what is now the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). The hospital, donated by Charles Haines of New York and named after his son, […]
This post is originally written and posted by Nereo Cajilig Luján. On 10 October 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt declared Fort San Pedro and its adjoining areas in Iloilo City as a military reservation, covering 34.5 hectares. First built out of wood by Pedro Bravo de Acuña in 1602, Fort San […]
Lacson, Sayson, Ditching, Layson, Ganzon, Sanson – these are just some of the few names that sound familiar. Their ancestors were with Wo Sing Lok, also known as “Sin Lok” who arrived in Manila from Amoy, the old name for Xiamen, the southern part of Fujian Province. During the reign […]
This post is originally written and posted by Nereo Cajilig Luján. The Iloilo Normal School, now Quezon Hall of the West Visayas State University, was completed in 1926 at the cost of P396,019.27. Originally, the reinforced concrete structure consisted of a two-story main building and two one-story wings (Bureau of […]
Filipinos consume about 2.15 million tons of plastics in a year and from which 9% are recycled and 35% leaks into the open environment, according to a study conducted by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), in a project funded by Grieg Foundation. That amount of total plastics is […]