FILES MAGAZINE, a sister publication of Panay News, recently featured on its cover Hon. Salvacion Z. Perez, governor of Antique province, and her State of the Province Address.
When we talk of Antique, we always think of muscovado sugar because the province is our country’s biggest source of the product. There are 141 sugar mills operating in [...]

IN TWO PREVIOUS COLUMNS, we have written about OTOP or the One-Town-One-Product idea as conceived under our government’s Medium Term Philippine Development Plan.
The concept is a very good strategy for development and we proposed that OTOP producers undertake an import-substitution campaign to overcome the huge trade deficit that we incur every year and achieve clear economic [...]

WE QUOTE below the comments we received thru e-mail on our piece, “Zoning Shapes the City” under the January 28 edition of Rural Update in Panay News. It came from a reader whose e-mail address is JollyGypsyxxi@aol.com.

IN COOPERATION with the United Nations’ International Year of Microcredit 2005 launched in November 18, 2004, President GMA announced the so-called 10-Point Legacy Agenda in line with our Medium-Term Philippine Development Plan which included, among others, Microfinance and OTOP, or the One-Town-One Product Program.

WE MET A concerned citizen who told us that “squatters also shape the city”, maybe paraphrasing the title of our column last week, Zoning Shapes the City.
The remark sounds a bit sarcastic but it is true. Do we have a definite and active program now for the resettlement of residents that occupy properties along road right-of-ways and [...]

WE HAVE THE ambition for Iloilo to become a PREMIER CITY BY 2015. That’s great! However, to achieve the desired status, we believe that the most important factor to look into is our zoning program. How do we want our city to look like by 2015 or seven years from now?
We recommend that our Sangguniang [...]

THE CITY expanded and it has been concerned of the growing traffic problem for some time now, hence the various experimentations on the routing and re-routing of traffic, as well as the building of transport terminals for vehicles going to the city from the interior towns and our neighboring provinces.
Such a strategy met complaints from various [...]