AN unconfirmed report has it that some quarters in Oton, Iloilo are protesting the delivery of water from MIWD deepwells in that town to other places in the MIWD franchise area.
The franchise area of MIWD covers Iloilo City, Oton, San Miguel, Sta. Barbara, Pavia and Leganes.
This protest allegedly occurred over the weekend as El Niño [...]

OUR regrets for the unintended errors in our previous column: “The elusive majority in the new City Council”, which came out in this paper’s June 1, 2010 issue, particularly found on Paragraphs 6 and 7.
I had corrected these errors, especially on the number constituting a majority, in a subsequent email. Unfortunately, this second email could [...]

WITH the winners for the Iloilo City Council already proclaimed and just waiting to take their seats at the turn of noontime on June 30, this year, something is immediately disturbing about its composition.
As the public already knows, five from the group of Mayor Treñas made it to the City Council – Vice Mayor-Elect Jose [...]

THE Iloilo City Scholarship Program, which was passed by the City Council in an ordinance many decades ago, is definitely obsolete, based on the present-day standard of living of city residents. Yet, the city government keeps on using it!
Imagine, only applicants whose parents are each earning no more than P60,000 a year, or P5,000 a [...]

PAYBACK time has started to be in season for Senator Benigno “NoyNoy” Aquino III, as he convincingly leads the presidential race.
He leads his closest rival former president Joseph Estrada by more than 5 million votes, which Congress need only to confirm with its final count starting May 24.
In fact, Aquino has already announced the name [...]

It is understandable why President-elect Benigno “NoyNoy” Aquino III, who is just a few votes away before his proclamation as the new President of the Philippines, is protesting the appointment by President Arroyo of Justice Renato Corona as successor of SC Chief Justice Reynato Puno who retired last May 17.
First, undoubtedly because he does not [...]

AN effective machinery is basically the candidate’s or political ticket’s key to victory at the polls in modern-day elections, especially where the issues can be effectively neutralized.
But where both sides can exhibit equal skills in forming these political machineries, a candidate or a political ticket can edge their opponents with their more telling set of [...]

THE imprisonment of a barangay tanod commander of Magsaysay Village recently has struck a telling cord on the kind of city executive Vice Mayor Jed would be should he win.
Of course, the victory of the vice mayor could happen only by accident (on a mistaken identity, as he is good at camouflaging his real deceitful [...]

VICE Mayor Jed has hinted on radio that his office has something to do with the yellow paper that is being distributed around, which maligns the person of Usec for Water Larry Jamora, who is now in virtual tie with him according to the latest survey of Manila-based RMN Broadcasting Corporation.
That yellow paper says that [...]

AN on-road parking is being experimented in Iloilo City. The experiment involves allowing vehicles to park on the road instead of off-the-road on the nature strip between buildings and the roadside, as we have always known it.
The businessmen and professionals must have lobbied for it, considering the big problem of the city at present with [...]