A friend Peter J was apprehended by a traffic police and slapped a P200-fine, which he paid, for a strange violation called “disregarding”. He was not even driving at that time. He merely went to the PNP-Comelec checkpoint in Molo, Iloilo City to claim his motorcycle that a pair of nincompoops in PNP uniform detained. [...]

Charging Juan for Pedro’s liability is ridiculous but that happens and keeps on recurring with unexpected frequency.
That happened to columnist and TV talk show host, Peter Jimenea.
He asked his son, Ace, to take his motorcycle for emission test last February 22. On the way home, the young Jimenea was flagged down by a team of [...]

The GMA administration is overtaking dictator Ferdinand Marcos in making a mockery of the democratic process. Since it took power in 2001, its bloody record in human rights violations hit past 1,000 victims of extrajudicial killings and over 200 persons disappeared. The violations still continues.
The culture of impunity persists notwithstanding domestic and international condemnation: state [...]

We can understand Manuel “Boy” Mejorada’s ranting on the cavalier treatment of his graft suit against TESDA director-general Augusto Syjuco by the regional office of the Ombudsman based in Iloilo City.
Mejorada, Iloilo provincial administrator, slapped graft charges against Syjuco since 2003 yet. Among the celebrated cases he filed was the so-called heavy equipment scam.
Panay News, [...]

A ship captain lost his life from head injuries when his motorcycle early morning of January 13 tripped over an open gutter of the road in Molo, Iloilo City. Such waste of life could have been avoided had there been warning signs for motorists to slow down or detour. The unfinished gutter was only “marked” [...]

As of this writing, the death toll in the carnage at Brgy. Salman. Ampatuan, Maguindanao has risen to 64. All are civilians and precious lives wasted in the bloodbath unleashed by a Malacanang-sponsored warlord.
The victims were convoying with Genalyn Tiamzon Mangudadatu to Shariff Aguak morning of November 23 when abducted by about 100 heavily armed [...]

She has made herself scarce nowadays in Iloilo City where she is opposed to hold office.
When this series started running in the local press and the web, Virginia Palanca-Santiago, assistant ombudsman for the Visayas, prefers to spend most of her time at the Cebu office.
As W. Visayas director of the ombudsman she, too, is supposed [...]

Some 3,000 casual employees of Iloilo City have a bleak Christmas as the big boss of a mall starts swinging the political ax.
As of today, November 16, one day care worker who had taught pre-schoolers at Jaro district for 15 years, was already fired. More heads are rolling as Mayor Jerry Treñas pushes to purge [...]

Riding a PUJ in southern Iloilo is a leap of faith. You place your life in the hands of the person behind the wheels presuming he/she is skilled and will bring you whole to our destination.
That doesn’t always happen. Almost every day, we hear news of accidents involving public vehicles, especially, jeepneys plying the southern [...]

Weeks ahead, the cabal of charlatans masquerading as graftbusters, spread the upcoming dismissal order the municipal treasurer and the private secretary of the mayor of Igbaras.
It happened with prophetic precision.
The order of dismissal reached the respondents on January 5, 2009. This merely confirms the charlatans’ affinity with Virginia Palanca-Santiago, assistant ombudsman for the Visayas and [...]