ILOILO CITY Vice Mayor Jed Mabilog in a message sent to and published by The News Today (TNT) conveyed that the devastation brought by Typhoon Frank was a message from and of God.
I considered –briefly- telling that to thousands of Ilonggo families whose lives are forever changed by the mudslides, landslides, floodwaters up to 15-feet […]

FOR US WHO were spared by the wrath and fury of Typhoon Frank, each new day means yet another chance and opportunity to go about with our usual schedules. Then at the end of that day, we and our loved ones go back to the confines of our homes, eat at the dinner table and […]

NEW YORK-based Filipina banker Maria Cruz.Dead at 35 in the hands of fake American cosmetic surgeon Dean Faiello.Michael Bautista, Jody Cuachon, Carlo Belgica and Vinzon Villalobos. Scarred patients of unlicensed dermatologist Kiel Gamana San Miguel following series of botched medical procedures in Manila.A 24 year-old woman dead in Quezon City last year for a breast […]

IT IS BACK to normal (and reality) for most of us Ilonggos after days of Dinagyang merriment and celebration. From the local warriors and visiting ones as in the case of a personal favorite – Tribu Ivatan of Batanes, to the thousands of student and medical volunteers, to the hundreds of kiosk-renters, – yes, it […]