ILOILO CITY is a flood-prone area no doubt, what with its poor drainage facilities and shrinking waterways that could no longer accommodate floodwaters from the Tigum-Aganan watershed area, causing a massive deluge as the two rivers merge at the outskirts of Jaro to form the now narrow Salog river. But flooding takes place only when […]

THE ILOILO City-based escort agency known as Messalina Escorts has cause quite a stir these days, having been the first to officially announce such a service in this part of the country. But aside from this so-called historical first, there is really nothing new about it. There are a lot of “escort services” in Iloilo […]

MY MOTHER rejected an offer to honor my father, whom we buried last Saturday at age 73, with necrological services on the ground that honoring someone should have been made when he was still alive and not when he is already dead. For while a person’s good deeds can encourage emulation, why wait for death to […]

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THINGS are just getting too exciting on the so-called Gucci Gang controversy after alleged swindler DJ Montano broke his silence on Korina Today at ANC Friday evening, where he repeatedly denied he bilked Australian landscape designer […]

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SOMETHING IS BREWING at the controversial Brian Gorrell blog. No, Brian is not getting his money back yet. And it’s not that the Gucci Gang is about to break their deafening […]

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THE BRIAN GORRELL blog-Gucci Gang controversy is gaining more and more following after the Lopez-owned ABS-CBN network has started to take it up in its various shows in an apparent attempt […]

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THE RAGING controversy involving the Gucci Gang and Australian landscape designer Brian Gorrell continues to draw spectators from all walks of life. The personalities involved in this online drama are too […]

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IF IT WERE NOT for Celine Lopez, daughter of couple Albertito and Emily, there would be less interest on the so-called Gucci Gang controversy among the Ilonggos. The combined news elements of proximity […]

RECENT WIRE REPORTS bannered Vatican’s latest pronouncement: Pollution is now a sin. Yes, Virginia, it is now a sin to pollute, according to Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti, who was described by Reuters as “the Vatican’’s number two man in the sometimes murky area of sins and penance.”
“If yesterday’s sin had a rather individualistic dimension, today it has a […]

THE OUSTER of Jose de Venecia as House Speaker last month signaled not just the downfall of the ruling Lakas-NUCD but also the relegation to the dustbin of its supposed soul – Christian Democracy. It signaled the end of discussions on the ideology that the late Raul Manglapus, statesman and diplomat, introduced into Philippine politics. Lakas-NUCD […]