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FOR several years now, it is the vast army of overseas workers that has kept the Philippine economy afloat with their remittances. Our present government has considered them as heroes because of this. They helped to build up the country’s foreign exchange reserves which rose to a record $37.1 billion as of [...]

THE sight of so many cars and other types of vehicles crowding our city streets during the holidays seemed to belie the fact that we are affected by the economic crisis hurting many other countries.
For example, a day before Christmas, we went to SM City to buy a printer cartridge for our computer. We had [...]

WE wrote last week that, from what we see around us, we seem to be unaffected by the so-called financial crisis triggered by the downfall of two of the biggest US investment banking houses in Wall Street.
But Malacañang suddenly came up with a twin proposal of increasing the deposit insurance coverage of the Philippine Deposit [...]

OF course, you have heard or read in screaming headlines about the financial crisis or meltdown last September in the United States, causing the immediate collapse due to bankruptcy of two financial giants in Wall Street – Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch – as a consequence of the massive housing mortgage loan failures all over [...]

LAST week, while passing the corner of Benigno Aquino Avenue and El 98 Street towards Jaro Plaza, Iloilo City, we saw an old, drab orange Fiera jeepney parked by the roadside. It had a crew of four or five people cooking asphalt in a drum, with some sand and gravel beside them.
This was our first [...]

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 [...]