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The Iloilo City Government, led by Mayor Jerry Treñas, officially launched the Iloilo Blooms: Bulak sa Pag-Uswag, a multi-sector beautification project with the objective to promote green living and community engagement by collecting and planting endemic flowers across the metropolis. “This is about making Iloilo a Blooming Garden City among the cities in the Philippines. […]
Iloilo City has been cited for its Outstanding Achievement in Community-led Interventions during the Community Operationalizing People-Centered HIV Response (COPE HIV) Culminating Activity at Quezon City recently. The award, which was received by City Councilor Alan Zaldivar on behalf of Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas, was given by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV […]
Iloilo City will have four additional police stations that will be officially activated on July 2.These are strategically located in Barangay Tanza Esperanza in City Proper district (Police Station 7), Barangay Bo. Obrero in Lapuz district (Police Station 8), Barangay M.H. Del Pilar in Jaro district (Police Station 9), and Gaisano Iloilo City Center in […]
More than 11,400 participants joined the BIDA RISE and RUN organized by the Iloilo City Government and Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) recently. No less than DILG Secretary Benhur Abalos led the 5-kilometer run which started from City Hall at Plaza Libertad to Fort San Pedro, Parola, Muelle Loney, Grand Xing Hotel, […]
The Iloilo City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC) has recommended the declaration of state of calamity due to water scarcity. Mayor Jerry Treñas, chairman of the CDRRMC, emphasized that the declaration will allow the city to utilize its quick response fund (QRF) to procure additional water, and provide for the immediate potable water needs of affected […]
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco met with Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas for a courtesy meeting at the mayor’s office. This was held on the sidelines of the National Tourism Development Plan (NTDP) 2023-2028 rollout for the Visayas cluster recently. During the meeting the two leaders discussed potential areas of collaboration including […]
Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas may extend the suspension of face-to-face classes from pre-school to senior high both in public and private schools depending on the heat index forecast. Treñas, through Executive Order (EO) No. 047 – 2024 issued March 31, declared the suspension of classes from April 1 to 2, 2024, after the Department […]
Iloilo City is now eligible to be declared African swine fever (ASF)-free, based on the assessment made by the Department of Agriculture (DA) Western Visayas. DA-6 regional executive director Dennis Arpia, in a letter to Mayor Jerry Treñas, informed the latter that the required documents submitted by the city government for the local declaration of “ASF-free” […]
The Iloilo City government, through its Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, has officially declared an outbreak of pertussis (whooping cough). The declaration came following the recommendation of the Health and Sanitation Cluster headed by the City Health Office (CHO) which logged 15 cases of pertussis as of March 25, seven of which are confirmed […]
Iloilo City will embark on the country’s first waste-to-energy project through Public-Private Partnership (PPP) set to commence construction in October 2024. Led by Mayor Jerry Treñas, the city government held a ceremonial contract exchange ceremony recently with Metro Pacific Water (MPW), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Metro Pacific Water Investments Corporation (MPWIC), for the construction of […]