Iloilo News and Events

 Fourth District Board Member Domingo Oso, Jr. sponsored a resolution congratulating and commending PNP Chief Camilo Pancratius Cascolan on his appointment as PNP Chief of Philippine National Police, National Headquarters, Camp Crame, Quezon City. The resolution stated that Cascolan is a PMA Class 1986 graduate and married to Amelia Caspe Tanalgo of Cabatuan and Santa Barbara, Iloilo. As a Junior Officer, he has served the city and province of Iloilo for more than five years, in various assignments and capacities, and he was instrumental in the resolution of a celebrated Bacabac Massacre in Sara, Iloilo, a drug-related case. Cascolan got his first Star Rank when he was the Deputy Regional Director for Administration of Police Regional Office 6 in 2015 to 2016. When he was appointed as director of PNP Civil Security Group in 2018, the 12th Iloilo Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed a Resolution No. 218-497 commending his appointment to that position. The 13th Iloilo Sangguniang Panlalawigan

 Wearing of face shields in Iloilo province will soon be mandatory following the approval of the Provincial Ordinance No. 2020-08-09 by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) as additional measure to curb the increasing coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases in the province. The ordinance, authored by Vice-Governor Christine Garin, makes mandatory the use of face shield “in all public places, private establishments, other workplaces, and while riding on any means of public transportation during the duration of the Covid-19”.  It was one of the three ordinances enacted by the legislative body during their Sept. 1, 2020 regular session.  "We know and everybody knows that there is an increasing Covid-19 in the province of Iloilo and we should implement additional protection for the people to avoid being infected," she said.  The vice-governor added that while the public has been wearing face masks as protection against the disease, yet it is still better to wear a face shield to m