WAY back in 2005, we had the privilege to join a tour with an itinerary that took us to the Vatican, Rome, Venice and its canals, the Italian lakes at Varese near the Swiss border; Lucerne, Switzerland, also with its lakes and high mountain peak, Mt. Pilatus, near Zurich; Paris, with its museums and the […]

WE wrote about Sibunag of Guimaras province last week. We visited the town for a business survey but from what we saw of the town proper and its environs, we believe that the municipality’s wealth at present is more on the beautiful islands or islets under its jurisdiction.
If the town and the provincial authorities of […]

WE had a sort of “tour” of Sibunag last week to take a good look at the area for future business possibilities.
Where is Sibunag? For those of you who are not familiar with Guimaras, maybe you should know that it is one of the most romantic places of the province. Why? When the municipality was […]

LAST week, we went to Robinsons Place Iloilo where there was an ongoing OTOP exhibit. For those who do not know it yet, OTOP is a government program under the 10-Point Legacy Agenda of President GMA. This is in line with our Medium Term Philippine Development Plan launched on November 18, 2004, to participate in […]

“A PREMIER City by 2015” is the campaign line of the current city administration of Iloilo. The first time we learned about this was on a billboard and now, we read the slogan imprinted on tin license plates issued to business establishments.
We looked up the word premier in the dictionary. It is an adjective which […]

SOMETIME in April last year, we wrote a column asking: “Do We Need More Taxis and Cars for Hire?”
At that time, Cebu Pacific announced that they have forged a partnership with Europcar, a giant foreign rent-a-car company operating in 179 countries, for the latter to provide rental service to the thousands of Cebu Pacific […]

HOUSE Bill No. 4256 has been filed by our Congressman to convert Iloilo City’s Lone District into two. It passed Third Reading in the House and it would now go to the Senate for deliberation.
Under the bill, Jaro, La Paz and Mandurriao, with a total of 97 barangays, will compose the First Congressional District, while […]

MAYBE it is a blessing in disguise that the building of our city hall was stalled for lack of interested bidders on account of the increasing cost of building materials.
With the suspension of the project, it will be a good opportunity to re-think the idea of borrowing from a bank P350 million for the […]

THE idea of constructing a new city hall for Iloilo City by the present local administration was started way back in 2006 when it commissioned a well-known architect to prepare two plans for the project.
The first plan was for a huge nine-storey building (floor area, 14,000 square meters), with additional two floors for underground parking, […]

IT has been more than one month since Iloilo City was hit by the biggest flood ever, yet the debris or rubbish as a consequence of the deluge is still in many areas of the city. The drainage or the potholes on the roads have not been fixed also. Where is the City Engineer?
You know, […]