TIME was when we believed what we saw in print and heard on radio. But now we can’t even believe what we see on digital TV.
These days – take it from Jun Lozada — even the Supreme Court could interpret a kidnapping incident as a tourism event.
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“Don’t blame Dinagyang,” cries Dinagyang exec Ben Jimena, “for […]

THESE happen in all courts, from the Supreme Court down to the municipal courts. Lawyers, witnesses, interpreters and even just court spectators commit blunders, or simply bloopers. If one is of the impression that all lawyers were trained to be good court examiners, he is wrong. You wouldn’t believe that even noted lawyers commit such […]

YESTERDAY, September 15, TESDA’s Ladderized Education Program (LEP) turned four years old. It was on that date in 2004 when the President signed Executive Order No. 358 “to institutionalize a ladderized interface between technical-vocational education and higher education.”
Has “ladderization” served its purpose?
Let us recall that under said EO, the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority […]

WHY are some establishments not service and customers-oriented?
When you complain about defective products or poor and lousy service, you would be lucky to receive a sincere and gracious attention. Sometime you hear comments that make you feel like an unreasonably “makulit” customer.
I have yet to meet someone who can honestly say that he has never […]

AFTER 40 days, the Supreme Court rendered a decision on the scandal involving justices of the Court of Appeals (CA). The scandal is one of the lowest points in the history of Philippine judiciary as it threatens to destroy its integrity and the credibility of the courts.
The CA scandal is an offshoot of the Meralco […]

ON April 30, 2008, then Iloilo City Engineer Marito A. Amatorio wrote a letter to some residents of Brgy. Ingore, La Paz, Iloilo City to demolish their structures that encroach the barangay road.
Punong Barangay Ernie Poral requested the assistance of the city engineer to pave the way for the installation of Metro Iloilo Water District […]

AT the outset, it seems as if Pavia, Iloilo Mayor Arcadio “Cadio” Gorriceta “scored” over the Syjuco couple when he exposed an alleged ghost road project in his municipality. Indeed, who would not fume at the thought of P28-million “evaporating” into thin air instead of going into the concreting of a 3.9-kilometer “abortion” road covering […]

HIRING a security agency for your safety at home is not a surefire antidote to criminals. The case of the “Savannah rape and murder” is one proof. Police say a member of the private security company hired by Savannah is the prime suspect in the rape and murder of Claire Nueros, a resident of Savannah […]

AFTER a week of crime busting, business stories take center stage in the city and province of Iloilo.
First off is the one-week Information Technology Week mounted by the city and provincial governments, Department of Trade and Industry and the Iloilo Foundation for Information Technology.
The activity kicked off with an IT Investment Forum Tuesday at Amigo […]

THE other day, Juan dela Cruz of Villa Arevalo, Iloilo City woke up to find a bad news in the mailbox – a billing statement from the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD). For zero cubic meter consumed, he would have to pay the P159.00 due for the month not later than Friday or be fined […]