House Majority Floor Leader Arthur Defensor highlighted the city's need to have an international seaport during the Metro Iloilo-Guimaras Leaders Summit 2007 last Friday.

ILOILO City – This southern city will leave no stone unturned in its hosting of the country’s top tourism event by January next year.

ILOILO City – The Department of Tourism (DOT) is ready for the influx of tourists in Western Visayas particularly in Boracay Island in Malay, Aklan which is being regarded as the favorite tourist destination in the country

THE P8-billion newly-opened Iloilo Airport at Sta. Barbara-Cabatuan towns is a sprouting economic corridors, Consultants for Comprehensive Environmental Planning, Inc. (Concep) said in its study.

A seemingly all-star cast of characters were gathered by Iloilo City Mayor Jerry Treñas tasked to help bring the city closer to its goal of becoming a premier city.

Going back to their roots, the Lopez family is expanding its business interests by investing in major projects in their home province of Iloilo and the neighboring Negros Island.

A young girl of Filipino parents was awarded a certificate for her outstanding academic excellence under the President's Education Award Program for school year 2004-2005 in the United States of America.

Biz forum to showcase Iloilo’s investment strengths

ILOILO is poised to become the newest investment haven not just in the Philippines but in Asia.



This is the aim of Iloilo Investment Forum on Nov. 27 at Sarabia Manor Hotel and Convention Center in Iloilo City.

The Iloilo City government looks forward for the realization of the proposed pump boat terminal in Fort San Pedro as jump off point to Guimaras. The proposed pump boat terminal will bring convenience to the people especially during Holy Week where a thron

PROPERTY firm Fil-Estate Land Inc. said Thursday it was setting aside P2.5 billion for high-end and middle-income housing developments this year and put into use 3,000-hectare land holding.

THE KEY - Larry Memmott, counselor for Economic Affairs of the US Embassy in Manila, believes that stable power supply is the basic recipe for economic growth.

Customers of flesh trade in the city must have been enjoying their usual routine as there is no recorded HIV (Human Immuno-deficiency virus) case in Iloilo City in 2007. The only sexually transmitted infection recorded among the Registered Female Sex Work

Iloilo City has availed of a P4.2 million technical assistance from the Cities Development Initiatives for Asia (CDIA) to restore the old Commercial Business District (CBD) of the city. The restoration of the old Calle Real is one of the programs included

CHINA and Iloilo City have strengthened ties, said Mayor Jerry Treñas after the visit of Chinese Consul General He Shi Jing here yesterday.

United States Counselor for Economic Affairs Larry Memmott said Iloilo and its neighboring island-province of Guimaras has the potential to emerge as attractive alternative popular tourist destination in the region other than Boracay island.

ILOILO City offers 22,000 seats for prospective call centers willing to expand here. This will be highlighted by Mayor Jerry Treñas before a call center conference in Manila on Tuesday.

Hotels, restaurants and small food business in the city earned at least P750 million during the week-long Dinagyang celebration. The country's best tourism event drew some 1.5 million visitors mostly local tourists.

THE SM group of companies recently honored its founder and chairman Henry Sy Sr. in a special musicale attended by over 2,000 guests from the local business community, various industries, and the private sector.

ILOILO Dinagyang Foundation, Inc. executive director Ben Jimena in his message during the Miss Iloilo Dinagyang coronation night said that after 40 years, Dinagyang Festival, touted as the best tourism event in the country, has finally arrived, having got

Indeed the City of Iloilo is fit to be called the "festival capital of the country." This City Mayor Jerry Treñas said as the city prepares for the array of festivals set this first quarter of 2008. The city will hold four major festivals to be ushered by

HOTELS here are now fully booked for Dinagyang Festival, the city’s premiere fiesta with highlights on Jan. 25-27, said Robert Ferrer, president of Iloilo Hotels, Resorts and Restaurants Association (IHRRA).

The hotels in the metropolis have around 1,

AT LEAST four new call centers are expected to open in Iloilo City starting this January, announced Mayor Jerry Treñas.

This, even as the Year 2007 saw the coming of private investments in the metropolis.

“It was a record and a banner year for inv