It’s not the ideal time to get sick and be hospitalized nowadays with private and public medical facilities filled beyond capacity. The district hospital at Guimbal, Iloilo had to erect a tent; even its corridors can’t accommodate additional patients.
So far, the accumulated figure of dengue cases since january in Iloilo Province alone, excluding Iloilo City, [...]

We grieve with the families killed and wounded in the botched rescue attempt of the PNP.
I may be dumb but at least I am not as stupid as idiots in PNP SWAT uniform, “Manila’s Finest” kuno  who mishandled the hostage-drama at Quirino Grandstand, Luneta last August 23. This is one maxim we can coin at the [...]

Think twice before buying pork in Iloilo City. You could be laying your hands on a “double dead” meat because the Iloilo City abattoir at Pavia, Iloilo is run by a gang sans a sanitary meat inspector.
The group running the show are not even registered employees, whether regulars, casuals or contractuals. The new capo di [...]

Panay Electric Company (PECO) sole power distributor in Iloilo City deserves the moniker “PatayElectric Company” not only because it torments consumers with erratic power supply and fequent brownouts but also of its despicable act of snubbing consumers.
It is quick in billing and collecting payments but acts like a “patay” that it realy is, in responding [...]

Lawyer Romeo Gerochi is puzzled why the head of the Office of the Ombudsman in Western Visayas, Virginia Palanca-Santiago, continues to drag her feet in the graft charges he slapped on then mayor, now congressman, Jerry Treñas.
He accused Treñas in 2003 for the P130-million housing scam at Pavia, Iloilo. Granting for the sake of argument, [...]

Lawyer Roming Gerochi has one word for the Office of the Ombudsman – “Monalisa”, an old ditty popularized by Matt Monroe and Frank Sinatra. He said that in one episode of “Kape kag Isyu”, a cable TV talks show aired live on Sky Cable every Saturday at 9 – 10 am.
Many dreams have been brought [...]

When Noynoy Aquino III assumes the presidency on July 1, he will be seeing a country the same as it was during the reign of his mother, the late Pres. Cory Quino – strung to the pre-industrial stage of development, unable to feed its own people, too incapable of curing its own sick without importing [...]

Don’t be deceived by Banco de Oro’s express lane. We have been through it May 31 at its Mandurriao branch. We were at the tail end of a line when a guard asked us how many transactions we would make. After learning we intend only to deposit an amount for my son, he pointed me [...]

After nine years of occupying this city’s highest public office, Mayor Jerry Treñas will be leaving it with the reputation of Iloilo City having slipped out of the magic top 10 investment-friendly medium-size cities.
In the same period of his non-eventful stewardship, Iloilo City also fell out of the 10 top tourist destinations in the Philippines.
Nine [...]

It appears nowadays that Iloilo City councilor Jeffrey Ganzon no longer sings alone for a city college. Those who thumbed down his proposed ordinance establishing one now are with him in chorus promising young indigents a free or subsidized tertiary education.
Last year, the city council voted to a tie, 6 – 6, for a city [...]