ESTANCIA town in Iloilo province has been on the police’s election watchlist of areas of concern because of its intense political rivalry.

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s former security aide Lt. Gen. Delfin Bangit on Wednesday formally took over as chief of the Philippine armed forces and assured the citizenry that the military will protect their votes “as if they are our votes.”

DEPARTMENT of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Horacio C. Ramos will lead the launching of the Community-Based Forest and Mangrove Management Project (CBFMMP) – KfW in Panay and Negros Islands

THE Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas–Kalibo Branch (BSP-Kalibo) is appealing to the public to spend coins in their daily cash transactions to keep the lower denominated instrument in circulation and eventually address the perceived coin “shortage.”