LECHON is the Spanish word for suckling pig. In the Philippines, it connotes a whole roasted pig, lechón baboy. Chicken and beef, are also popular. The process of lechón involves the whole pig/piglet, chicken, or cattle/calf being slowly roasted over charcoal.

 
CASTLE Brothers, Wolf and Sons is an American trading company with offices in Manila and Iloilo during the 1900s. Its Iloilo building (see photo above) was located along De la Rama Street near the Iloilo port. It figured in a lawsuit in 1912.  

 
YESTERDAY marked the 36th Paraw Regatta, the annual race of native outriggers along the Iloilo Strait, the waters the divide Panay and Guimaras.

BETWEEN 1890 and 1891, Dean Conant Worcester, an American zoologist who later became a member of the United States Philippine Commission (1899-1901), visited Guimaras Island several times to collect specimens of Philippine fauna. He took the photographs above and below right, two of the many albumen prints he produced during his stay in the country.

 
THE ORIGINAL church of Oton, Iloilo was of Byzantine and Gothic style and formed like a Greek cross with its four doors and eight towers. The interior had a Gothic altar of five bodies, four choirs and one artistic pulpit.

 
IZNART STREET is a busy commercial and educational center in Iloilo City. It is the longest vein of the heart of downtown Iloilo. Its terminals are the old Iloilo Provincial Capitol in the north and the Iloilo Strait in the south. Many streets intersect this grand business avenue, namely Solis; intersecting streets like Delgado and Yulo, [...]

AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD is a 36-page report Philippine National Situation. Highlights and Some Significant Details 2007 Year-end Report released by the Center for Strategic Studies (CSC) , a policy think-tank which aims to provide policy advice and guidance to national and local leaders in the country.

 
THE PORT OF ILOILO opened to world trade in 1855 to become the biggest port in the Philippines during that period, making Iloilo the country’s premier province, exporting sugar, copra, bananas, mangoes, and other natural resources to Spain and the United States. With a fine harbor sheltered by Guimaras island, it has both interisland and overseas [...]

TODAY, the country commemorates the martyrdom of Evelio Javier, the former governor of Antique who was murdered by the regime of Ferdinand Marcos on 11 February 1986. The day has since been declared a public holiday in the whole of Panay Island.

THE NEW House Speaker, Prospero Nograles, should thank the Almighty for giving Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez a new lease on life after a kidney transplant. Had Gonzalez not returned to the Justice portfolio due to his illness, Nograles could have not become House Speaker.