ILOILO CITY, July 14 -- The headline inflation in Western Visayas for June this year remained at 6.8 percent, similar to its growth recorded in May, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) on Tuesday.

PSA Western Visayas Regional Director Nelida Amolar said the maintained rate brought the average inflation for the first six months in the region to 4.8 percent.

"The major contributors to the inflation rate included food and non-alcoholic beverages with 36.3 percent share or 2.47 percentage points; transport with 21.6 percent share or 1.47 percentage points and restaurants and accommodation services with 12.5 percent share or 0.85 percentage points," she said.

While these pushed up inflation to 6.8 percent, all the others ...