IN at least two radio programs recently, Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog unleashed his indignation against the management of the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) for slackening on its commitment to submit to him the terms of reference (TOR) for the bulk water supply project aimed at ending the local water crisis.
“Due to their [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

TRUTH is truly stranger than fiction. No movie script writer had envisioned the story of a dismissed policeman seizing a tourist bus, holding passengers (mostly from Hong Kong) hostages at gunpoint, demanding reinstatement in service, killing the hostages and giving up his own life to a sniper.
But that was how reality unfolded for eleven hours [...]

WHERE was Prospero Pichay last Wednesday? Was he not supposed to be here in Iloilo City to kick out the board of directors of the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD)?
Pichay, chairman of the board of trustees of the Local Waterworks Utilities Administration (LWUA), had threatened to “plant” the MIWD board with LWUA personnel because the [...]

THE main reason why we believe in God – incidentally a selfish one – is because He could free us from the bondage of mortality and catapult us to eternal life in heaven. But how do we know which is the true religion? Christianity? Judaism? Buddhism? Islam? Shinto? Hinduism? Confucianism? Taoism?
Of the aforesaid eight major [...]

THERE was a time during the “Water Summit” at the Iloilo City SP session room last Tuesday when Mayor Jed Mabilog reprimanded a lady official of the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD), “Do not put words into my mouth.”
Whereupon the lady clarified that it was she herself who was referring to the MIWD board of [...]

THE frequent cancellation of domestic flights of Philippine Airlines due to the “disappearance na walang paalam” of 25 domestic pilots could have been avoided had the PAL management bended to their demand for better pay. It is no secret that being “global citizens,” they inevitably get better offers from airlines abroad.
A radio flash report yesterday [...]

WHEN President Noynoy Aquino denounced the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage Authority (MWSS) for “overspending” in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday, I thought he would likewise whip MWSS’ “twin” water agency, the Local Waterworks Utilities Administration. P-Noy did not.
Yesterday morning, I heard Larry Jamora – former LWUA and MWSS administrator (in that [...]