TYPHOON FRANK merely accelerated the spiral of the food crisis. Disaster has been in our midst with the one named Gloria at its center wind.
The good news though is that Iloilo does not lack for people of vision who stand out during calamities. The bad news: it also does not lack for clowns like Mayor […]

CRISES, on the good side, are opportunities breeding heroes willing and ready to run extra miles to save people in distress and work to enable them rise on their feet, as typhoon Frank shows.
Iloilo province and city have them. We have stories of neighborhood “istambays”, notwithstanding the derogatory connotation, being the first to succor ahead […]

THE AIR still reeks of melancholia; I must say I am still haunted by depression, nine days from that fateful morning of June 21 when floods swallowed not just Iloilo City but all of Iloilo Province as well. Friends confessed they also felt the same way and they can’t explain having been suck into the […]

WHEN YOU fill in the blanks in the borrower’s application form prepared by Quedancor, read the creased, fine prints from corner to corner, from top to bottom. You might find yourself in trouble if you don’t.
This happened to a mayor and two of his office chiefs in southern Iloilo who on October 2006 signed in […]

ONE COULD breeze through the counters in grocery stores inside malls in a few minutes during peak hours. Buyers just became scarce. Before, noontime shopping there was prolonged by lines of shoppers waiting for their turns to pay.
The sudden slowdown also hit department stores, barbershops, internet stations, restaurants, etec, all because the volume of clients […]

WITH PAROCHIALISM plaguing Iloilo City and being whipped up by Mayor Jerry Treñas and his cabal, the municipalities have no choice but erect “people’s terminals.”
The grapevine says that, after the end of the three-day strike by provincial jeepneys in protest to Iloilo City traffic ordinances, the southern route (comprising the towns of San Joaquin, Miag-ao, […]

FOURTH DISTRICT Rep. Ferjenil Biron is blessed not only with might and pelf attached to his wealth and position, but also, with a coterie of robots at the Iloilo Provincial Prosecutor’s Office willing and ready to jump to his command.
He alone, of all elective officials in Western Visayas, has replicated the feat of First Gentleman […]

BUSINESS GROUPS and the opposition parties see the squatter of Malacañang as corrupt and urge her to step down. Former President Cory Aquino calls her corrupt and repeatedly asks her to resign. Civil society holds her as morally bankrupt and thus, must go. Militant organizations judge GMA not only as corrupt but criminal as well, thus, […]

MONSIGNOR Meliton Oso’s statement that Jaro Archdiocese is withdrawing its accounts from Metrobank and calls on others to do the same reveals that advocates for a green Iloilo are adopting heavier pressures to bear on the bank that owns Global Business Power Corporation that in turn runs the Panay Power Corporation (PPC) that will be […]

MONSIGNOR MELITON OSO of the Jaro Archdiocesan Social Action Center hits the nail on the head when he urged environmentalists to push harder against the proposed coal-fired plant by boycotting or closing their accounts with Metrobank, owner and financier of Global Business Power Corporation that runs the Panay Power Corporation at Ingore, La Paz , Iloilo City […]