SCHOOLS, students planning to go on a field trip to Iloilo City, better think twice or go elsewhere.
Five-year olds in control of city hall now consider the city of 350,000 people a separate republic and nation, hostile to the rest of Iloilo and the outside world.
That xenophobia is summed up in a statement “Ang amon, [...]

ACE Builders Enterprises, on one hand, is in tantrums for another P26 million payment from the city government and, on the other, Mayor Jerry Treñas is acting like a frightened dog with its tail between its legs.
We smell rat here.
The contractor is not alone in that zarzuela of huff-and-bluster, threatening suits on Iloilo City government [...]

JERRY Treñas was a young man of promises when he reentered politics (he lived a private life after losing the mayoralty in 1998) gunning for his first term in 2001.
He promised a lot, among them, better education and health services for constituency especially the poor. He promised to upgrade the maternity clinic in La Paz [...]

FRANK reminds us to act locally as our contribution to stop global environmental despoliation and pollution. Global warmig knows no border. Frank happened because the world has become a giant greenhouse caused by carbon emissions, mainly from coal-fired power plants in the US, China and India. These are countries that have entered the industrial age [...]

WE salute the five governors of W. Visayas for petitioning Pres. GMA to revoke the environmental clearance certificate (ECC) issued by the DENR to Patay Power to erect the coal fired power plant.
Everything is shrouded in secrecy. Patay Power has not submitted any environmental impact assessment, for one, the measures it will enforce to protect [...]

FRIDAY, October 3, supposedly a big day for Iloilo City, host of the ongoing national convention of the Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines. The local government wanted to impress guests and locals with a parade with cultural troupes from the municipalities and city of Iloilo performing.
Everything was a dud. Kaput. Pffttt. What happened [...]

PRICES of chemical fertilizers continue to soar beyond the reach of farmers, who in turn, behave like drug addicts willing to run deeper into debts just to obtain them at whatever price.
Like drug addicts, farmers never realize that they can recover the fertility of the soil – by going back to natural farming practices that [...]

NEXT year or before the 2010 elections, the law dividing the lone congressional district of Iloilo City to two might have been passed. With that, each district will have a representative to the Lower House and eight regular members to the city legislature, on top of the liga ng sangguniang kabataan and liga ng barangay [...]

A YEAR AGO or so to the 2007 elections, Iloilo, its second congressional district particularly, was jarred by a P3 million-cellphone scam with the Syjuco spouses at its center wind.
Iloilo provincial administrator Manuel “Boy” Mejorada broke it to the press.
The Nokia 1100 cellphones were “ghost” deliveries, declared Mejorada, meaning, Rep. Judy Syjuco and TESDA director-general [...]

ILOILO Vice Gov. Rolex Suplico continues to shoot his own foot. And we can’t help but gape in awe at his boldness to hold his ground against all odds including sanity. The same observation applies as well to his colleagues who quickly jump to his call virtually defying the national mandate of 10 percent salary [...]