Day: August 3, 2024

ILOILO CITY: A business process outsourcing (BPO) firm specializing in contact center and clinical nurse operations announced on Friday its plan to expand its workforce in Iloilo City, providing more job opportunities for Ilonggos. ‘We have 40 percent of our population out of Iloilo, barely close to 4,000 employees. By the end of the year, with the expansion that we are looking at, we will be exceeding the 4,000-mile, making us the largest health care provider BPO in Western Visayas,’ Carelon Global Solutions Philippines vice president and chief country executive Nicki Agcaoili said in a media roundtable. Two of their

ILOILO CITY: The Police Regional Office (PRO) 6 (Western Visayas) is intensifying its monitoring of coastal areas to prevent possible smuggling activities. In an interview on Friday, PRO-6 Director, Brig. Gen. Jack Wanky, said this complies with instructions from the national headquarters to intensify the monitoring of coastal areas amid widespread smuggling apprehensions in Mindanao. ‘We expect that they will also use our coastal areas. True enough, our recent accomplishment proves our assessment. The more that we order, especially those in the coastal areas, to be more vigilant and alert against illegal activities so they would not come into our

ILOILO CITY: The Metro Pacific Iloilo Water (MPIW) on Friday committed to transparency with its five-year development plan as it thanked the Sangguniang Panlungsod (city council) for its positive response to its explanation on the water rate adjustment. In a statement, the MPIW committed to complying with the recommendations of the city council and maintaining ‘open, transparent, and honest communication with all stakeholders.’ ‘The company will conduct a series of information, education, and communication in the communities starting this month to further communicate its five-year development plans and status to all its stakeholders,’ it said. The MPIW also clarified that

COTABATO CITY: Police authorities, backed by military troops, have launched a manhunt against gunmen who ambushed and killed a vice mayor and his police escort in Barangay Pandan, South Upi, Maguindanao del Sur, at about 5 p.m. on Friday. Col. Roel Sermese, Maguindanao del Sur Police director, said the South Upi municipal police is pursuing several leads that could help identify and arrest the killers of Vice Mayor Roldan Benito and a bodyguard identified as Weng Marcos. Also injured in the ambush were Benito’s wife, Analyn, and their 11-year-old child, all of Sitio Bahar, Barangay Pandan. Another child, aged 13,

MANILA: President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has issued an executive order (EO) granting a four-tranche salary increase and a medical allowance to government workers. EO 64, inked by Marcos on Aug. 2, covers all civilian government personnel in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, constitutional commissions, and other constitutional offices. There will also be a pay hike among those who are working in government-owned or -controlled corporations (GOCC) not covered by Republic Act (RA) 10149 or the GOCC Governance Act of 2011, as well as all personnel of local government units (LGUs), regardless of their appointment status, according to the