Part 1 
IN THE FIELD of a very hi-tech subject called Fluvial Geo Morphology or FGM (the land mass that a river affects, influence and form), the P4.2-billion Japanese method of solving the Iloilo flood problem is termed as the Hard or Steel and Concrete approach which is the traditional engineering way of solving the flood […]

TWO YEARS have lapsed since August 11, 2006 when Motor Tanker Solar I sank off the coast of Nueva Valencia, Guimaras and triggered the worst oil spill in the country.
The tanker settled 2,000 ft. in the sea bottom where water pressure is at 65 tons/sq.ft. and the temperature at 15 degrees centigrade.
M/T Solar I was […]

MORE than 40 days have lapsed since the occurrence of the 100-year flood which devastated Iloilo, particularly the city and the town of Pavia.
The most concerned chief executives, Mayor Jerry Treñas of Iloilo City and Gov. Niel Tupas of Iloilo province have yet to make a move in terms of finding out WHY the destructive […]

FORGET about the soaring cost of electric power at P12/kw-hr and gasoline at P46/liter! Never mind if investors are shying away from Iloilo City because of lack of power! What matters most is that we protect Mother Nature first and foremost.
This is the battle cry of this emerging political ecumenical group in Iloilo that has replaced […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, USA – Seventy-one of the 97 U.S. senators who voted for the stopping of oil flow into the strategic petroleum reserve (this is a bomb-proof underground oil storage inside mined out salt domes whose geological origin I have explained in my previous column) in the hope of lowering fuel pump price (the headline […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, USA – The U.S. Air Force Academy here in Colorado Springs has installed a new flight simulator which is a mock up of the F-35 Lighting II cockpit, the latest fighter plane that the Air Force will receive by 2010. The F-35 will replace the aging F-16, its main fleet of jet fighters […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, USA – SB 200 (not Sangguniang Bayan but State Bill) is the most controversial bill signed by Governor Bill Ritter of the state of Colorado recently. The bill makes it illegal in Colorado to discriminate against gays, bisexual and transgender people when buying a home, renting an apartment or USING PUBLIC ACCOMODATION – […]

MAY 26 was Memorial Day in the U.S. This is a “big deal” in this country because this is the day when the Americans, as a nation, remember and honor their soldiers who fell in combat in Iwo Jima (where 6800 Americans were killed and 17,000 wounded as against the 21,000 Japanese defenders who all […]

IN APRIL 1986, then Vice President George H.W. Bush traveled to Saudi Arabia to warn the Saudis against increasing oil prices (which was then at $10/barrel) because it will threaten the US oil industry and national security.
More than 22 years later, his son President George W. Bush met with Saudi King Abdullah to appeal for […]

THIS WEEK in Colorado Springs is graduation time for high school students finishing the spring term. What is remarkable here is the availability of many college scholarships, financial aids and grants that graduates can avail if they qualify.
As early as six months before graduation, half of the high school graduating students are in a frenzy […]