IT HAS BEEN nine days since the MV Princess of the Stars of Sulpicio Lines sank off Sibuyan Island with more than 800 passengers and crewmen on board. Only 57 survivors have been found, and the rest have been trapped inside the capsized floating coffin.
The sunken vessel is not only a navigational hazard in one of [...]

TYPHOON Frank has exited but the flood it brought left hundreds of homes and vehicles destroyed or disabled on account of the inundation that reached near the rooftops in some areas of Metro Iloilo.
Traffic is back to normal but we still have mud on the roads deposited by floodwaters from the hillsides and the Perimeter [...]

ON FRIDAY night, the people of Iloilo, city and province went to their sleep thinking it was an ordinary rainy day. The weather forecast from PAG-ASA says typhoon Frank has just made a landfall in Samar. Late night news plotted the pathway of Frank showing it will proceed to Bicol from Samar then made headway [...]

OFFICIALS of the disaster-prone Sulpicio Lines have blamed “an act of God” for the sinking of their ferry MV Princess of the Stars at the height of Typhoon Frank off Sibuyan Island in Romblon province last Saturday. The ferry sank with 849 passengers and crew on board. The latest reports on rescue efforts count 48 [...]

REMEMBER that issue several years back where Iloilo provincial officials, from Governor Niel Tupaz down to his minions, were warned about relocating families affected by the construction of the new Iloilo airport to a site in Barangay Banguit, Cabatuan because it is a riverbed and therefore flood-prone?
The governor, including Mayor Ramon Yee of Cabatuan, ignored [...]

SISTER, a sister calling
A master, her master and mine! —
And the inboard seas run swirling and hawling;
The rash smart sloggering brine
Blinds her; but she that weather sees one thing, one;
Has one fetch in her: she rears herself to divine
Ears, and the call of the tall nun
To the men in the tops and the tackle rode [...]

PANAY’S socio-cultural development started long before the coming of the Spanish colonizers. Historical records and archaeological findings would attest to the fact that the pre-Spanish Panayanons were a people of rich culture and of relatively advanced civilization. Their culture belonged to the Iron Age.
Early Spanish writers like Antonio de Morga, Miguel de Loarca and Francisco [...]

MANY FOUND interesting what media called the cat and mouse game played by our local officials, particularly Mayor Bing Leonardia and Congressman Monico Puentevella. It’s too early a start but it is providing people enough inputs already for 2010.
The media’s relevant question is who is the cat and who is the mouse? And why one [...]

IloiloViews.com’s webmaster became one of the statistics in the recent disaster wrought by Typhoon Frank, thus, this site has not been updated since. But today, we are back. Thanks for your continued patronage.

ALL THESE years, we never have understood the Tausug mentality. Tausugs are people of Sulu.
There are three major Moslem tribes of Mindanao . The Tausugs who inhabit Sulu, the Maranaws who inhabit the two Lanao provinces, and the Maguindanao who inhabit Cotabato.
The Maguindanaos are farmers brought up by the fertile plains of Cotabato. The Maranaws [...]