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ILOILO CITY — Metro Pacific Iloilo Water held a press conference on May 20, 2026, to assure the public that it is fully prepared for the El Niño season ahead. With PAGASA placing a 79% probability of El Niño conditions emerging as early as June to August 2026 at light effect, building to medium effect
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By Glazyl M. Jopson
By Glazyl M. Jopson
By Glazyl M. Jopson
CARTOON FOR MAY 21, 2026
There is that house at Ortiz Street, with stone eagles imperiously perched atop the columns of its walls. At its heyday, the Celso V. Ledesma House witnessed many a soiree attended by personalities of the city: it was a place of gaiety, art, and the urbane life. But in recent
A new science-policy brief from the Oscar M. Lopez Center, written with De La Salle University, puts a number on something farmers have known forever: when the rain doesn’t come, poverty does. Below-average rainfall can lift national poverty incidence by as much as 6 percentage points. Among farming households, it climbs to nearly 10. With
