IN A TWO or multiparty system, there is no such thing as a common ethos or guiding belief as to who between the executive and the legislative should provide the leadership role in policy-making.
This is easy to see in the fact that each party has its own ideology or program of government, or at least their […]

CONGRATULATIONS. This afternoon of May 23, 5:30 p.m. at Sarabia Manor Hotel and Convention Center, 18 Iloilo City government officials and employees will be conferred the title Master in Public Management (MPM), after completing the course under the tutelage of the Ateneo Graduate School in classes on weekends (Saturdays) and after office hours.
A few others, […]

LOPEZ BAZAAR. Here’s an opportunity for many of us with a kind heart for the needy and disadvantaged to make good that desire to help these people. In fact, you will not only be able to help, you will also be getting “something good” in return for your cash donations.
There’s a rummage sale at the […]

WE ARE HAPPY to know that there is at least one company in Iloilo City which supports the call to “Save the Earth” from wastes and pollution.
This company is the Iloilo Supermart, which asks its customers in all its branches here, including the Washington Commercial at J.M. Basa St., to bring along their reusable purchase […]

THE VERSION of the Bicameral Conference Committee of the cheap medicines bills has been ratified by Congress.
And from the way Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye welcomed it, the President might just sign this “Universally Accessible Cheaper and Quality Medicine Act of 2008” into law. We hope, though, that meantime the President holds her reins and ask […]

WE SHARE the observation of former Congressman, now Iloilo Vice Governor, Rolex Suplico that the Bicameral Conference Committee version of the cheap medicines bill, which he originally authored in the 11th Congress, is a sell-out to foreign drug companies.
The regulatory provisions in the original bill have been removed, leaving the pricing of medicines to wider […]

PRESENTLY, there are two annual budgets for 2008 at the Iloilo Provincial Capitol – that of the Governor and the other, that of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP). And each is insisting that his or their budget should be the one in operation.
We understand that there is already a case in court asking it to decide […]

A RECENT survey showed that people believe there is a rice shortage even in Iloilo City, which is not supposed to be so, considering that Iloilo and the whole of Panay are net rice-producing areas with a total produce said to be capable of feeding even the whole of Visayas.
In fact, a friend in the […]

SOME BUSINESSMEN are just so conscienceless. Give them a reason, even the slightest reason to speculate, like the recent reckless talks on rice shortage, and they would jack up the prices of their commodities without the least sympathetic thought for the buyers, many of whom could now hardly eat three times a day.
I was at a […]

THE TAXI DRIVER who charged Eleonor, associate editor of FILES Magazine, P350 for a trip from the New Iloilo Airport to their home in Ungka early evening of last Saturday should be taught a lesson. Why?
There is a regulation which mandates that taxicabs may only charge on their fare meter, that’s why. Asking the passengers a charter […]