TOMAS CONFESOR had always been a fighter – in time of war and in time of peace – always for the good of the people. His heroic defiance of the Japanese Imperial Army earned for him the commendation of the American people, as voiced by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt. On the other hand, his […]

VICTORINO MAPA, the second Filipino chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Kalibo, then a town in Capiz, on 25 February 1852.  He had served as Register of Deeds of Iloilo and later as Vice Mayor of Iloilo.

FELIPE LANDA JOCANO, the first Filipino Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, was born on February 5, 1930 in Cabatuan, Iloilo. The youngest son of Eusebio Jocano and Anastascia Landa of Barangay Salacay, he is currently Professor Emeritus at the Asian Center of the University of the Philippines and Executive Director of Punlad Research House, Inc.
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