MANY praised Iloilo City Mayor Jed Mabilog for being “decisive” on the controversial P130-million Pavia housing scandal after he revoked the contract of Ace Builders Enterprise (ABE) last week by signing a Notice of Termination of Contract, an act that should have been done by his predecessor, Mayor Jerry Treñas.
The ABE contract, according to news [...]

IT shocked me to read our editor Francis Allan Angelo’s news report the other day that while Iloilo City Mayor Jed Mabilog had held in abeyance the takeover of the inefficient Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) by the Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA), he could still resort to that option.
For as I related in this [...]

MY friend Allan of barangay Dungon A has not been drinking faucet water – no thanks to the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) – because “it’s brownish in the early morning.” He could only guess it must be because of the system’s leaky pipes that allow dirty surface water to seep in whenever water pressure [...]

CONGRATULATIONS to the new officers (2010-2012) of RO AKEANON, Iloilo Chapter, who were inducted into office in the evening of August 28, 2010 in a fitting Induction Ceremony and Ball at the Sarabia Manor Hotel & Convention Center. Theme of the occasion was: “Bisan Sin-o Ag Bisan Siin, Ro Akeanon Masaligan, Ag May Ikasarang.”
The new [...]

IF Secretary Herminio Coloma of the Palace communications and operations office is to be believed, the administration of former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was also to blame for the bloody end of August 23 hostage-taking drama at Rizal Park because it left a police force that is poorly trained and ill-equipped.
“I would like to point out [...]

Venus Raj may have failed to please the international audience with her answer to William Baldwin’s question, but her now famous “major major” response was just a reflection of our culture. And had the judges understood what we Filipinos truly are, they could have given her a high score. Thus, Raj’s failure to get the [...]

OUR warmest congratulations to our ‘kasimanwa’ Venus Raj for winning as 4th runner-up in the recently concluded Miss Universe competition in Las Vegas, U.S. of A. My late mother was a Bicolana, a beautiful Bicolana herself, although she hailed from Sorsogon while Venus comes from Camarines.
I think Venus could have won as Miss Universe if [...]

THIS writer begs to disagree with colleague Lydia Pendon, who recently reported that Iloilo City Mayor Jed Mabilog would allow within this month the Local Waterworks Utilities Administration (LWUA) to take over the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) because of the latter’s failure to reverse its incompetence.
Oh no! That would make the mayor an underling [...]

VOLTAIRE once said that it is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. No truer words were ever spoken. Condemning an innocent person is the highest form of injustice. Writing about Islamic aggression against US neo-imperialism, Taslima Jahangir in the movie Crossing Over wrote that the only way for [...]

THERE are 540 punong barangays in Iloilo,” a coffee table chum and grapevine source told me Tuesday morning in our usual downtown habitué.
Of course, I was boggled as the last time I checked, Iloilo City only has only 180 barangays headed by the same number of village chiefs. My friend’s statement prompted me to peep [...]