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 [...]

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 [...]

SOME 45 hectares of uninhabited mangrove and timberland areas in Brgy. Hinactacan, Lapaz, Iloilo City has just been declared as the Flagship Bird Sanctuary of the city.
This happened after the Sangguniang Panlungsod, in its session last August 11, approved its barangay ordinance, which establishes 15 hectares of mangrove area and the adjoining 30 hectares of [...]

WE ARE happy for Iloilo to learn that a four-strong chess team of the Iloilo Club 64 is making its debut in an international chess competition slated for August 28 to September 5, this year, at the Ninoy Aquino Stadium in Manila.
Dubbed as the Florencio Campomanes Memorial Chess Competition, it is a tribute to the [...]

THIS guy, Rep. Edcel Lagman, does not only want to preach his own nobody’s church religious conviction with his squinted (teaching good and evil at the same time) reproductive health bill – who could not push it anyway because the Church of God still has more followers than he has.
He has also a “squinted” tongue. [...]

THERE is undoubtedly no stopping the ENVIRONMENT SUMMIT being planned by Councilor David Raymund Jamora, chair, Committee on Public Services, Environment Protection and Ecology.
It is planned to be a legislative-executive endeavor. Hopefully, both branches of the city government can pitch in some financial support. That hope, notwithstanding, Jamora is also looking for private sector help [...]

SEX EDUCATION. It appears that the Government is dead set to introduce sex education to elementary and high school students in at least our public schools.
Well, let it be. But let it be a PARENT-CONTROLLED course! Meaning, let the parents on their parental role over their children, in consultation with their churches, have a final [...]

THE 112th Independence Day of the nation used to be always celebrated on June 12, the day when in 1898 Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, our first recognized President, proclaimed it amidst the jubilation of the Filipinos from the balcony of his home in Cavite.
It was a holiday on that same day, regardless of whether or not [...]

AN unconfirmed report has it that some quarters in Oton, Iloilo are protesting the delivery of water from MIWD deepwells in that town to other places in the MIWD franchise area.
The franchise area of MIWD covers Iloilo City, Oton, San Miguel, Sta. Barbara, Pavia and Leganes.
This protest allegedly occurred over the weekend as El Niño [...]

OUR regrets for the unintended errors in our previous column: “The elusive majority in the new City Council”, which came out in this paper’s June 1, 2010 issue, particularly found on Paragraphs 6 and 7.
I had corrected these errors, especially on the number constituting a majority, in a subsequent email. Unfortunately, this second email could [...]