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Sharing that Esplanade video could be a crime

By Jennifer P. Rendon and Rjay Zuriaga Castor ILOILO CITY – The Iloilo City Police Office has ordered an investigation into a viral video allegedly showing a couple engaging in an obscene act along a section of the Iloilo River Esplanade in Barangay Progreso, Lapuz district. Iloilo City police chief Col. Wilbert Parilla directed police

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Atty. Melissa Banias runs the Office of Civil Defense division that vets how Western Visayas towns spend their disaster money. So when she calls the Local Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Fund “prone to abuse,” with money charged to activities that were never in the plan, it sounds and feels more than a routine gripe.

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