Deputy Ombudsman for the Visayas Pelagio Apostol was thrown off blance when a cleric castigated his office for wavering in cases referred to it for investigation by his (cleric’s) NGO accredited as partner of the Ombudsman.
At first glance, yours truly felt like jumping to hug the cleric for his courage to stand up at the [...]

PECO or Patay Electric is to blame for the accident at Tagbak, Jaro, Iloilo 10:30 pm, February 17.
The ambulance of the District Hospital at Sara, Iloilo was rushing an emergency case to the city when its blinkers tangled with a drooping electric cable at Datsan Marketing.
As the vehicle teetered back to its lane, a motorcycle [...]

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Iloilo City (pop. 400,000), world class urban center kunu, former “Queen City of of the South” out to recapture the title, mayor Jerry Trenas vows, will still be caught with its pants down if another deluge similar to Typhoon Frank’s sweeps it tomorrow or a month from now.
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THE likelihood of Iloilo City being divided into two congressional district before the 2010 elections is dim.
If that pushed through, Rep. Raul Gonzalez, Jr. and graduating Mayor Jerry Treñas would be running in tandem for two congressional seats without a fight.
The bill redistricting the city already passed the Lower House but the Senate is still [...]

VIRGINIA Palanca-Santiago, regional director of the Office of the Ombudsman (Visayas), has a lot of explaining to do why she continues to sit on cases of big time thievery lodged on her office since 2002 yet.
She has also to explain why, in contrast, she readily throws the monkey wrench on petty infractions.
I am referring, as [...]

THE Constitution labels the Office of the Ombudsman “protector of the people”. That means, for one, the office shields the nation against grafters and crooks.
However, it appears that Virginia Palanca-Santiago, Western Visayas director of the Office of the Ombudsman (Visayas), appears ignorant of that.
Her office in Iloilo City continues to sit on cases of big-time [...]

MY friend and occasional drinking partner, Agustin “Noning” Cabahug, personnel officer and resident ombudsman at the DepEd Region 6, is all praises for Virginia Palanca-Santiago, Region 6 director of the Office of the Deputy Ombudsman (Visayas).
He was among the first to give her a comforting word after learning that somebody else, not her, was named [...]

We are supposed to be prosperous and merry today as we have wished in the Yuletide season.
We are supposed to be assured of abundance after collecting at least 12 kinds of rounded fruits on our tables and lighting pyrotechnics for two purposes, to attract good fortune and drive away demons.
Fine and good. That’s true only [...]

DECEMBER once ushered a different weather: the wet season was over and the dry set in. December was cold and dry up to January; February was warm and windy.
In yonder years, the winds of February beckoned on farmers to thresh their palay. Threshing was done on elevated bamboo platform by foot.
Harvest season was September through [...]