By: Alex P. Vidal “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Rogers ILOILO City Police Office (ICPO) chief, Colonel Martin Defensor Jr.’s appeal for Ilonggos to be wary of fake peso bills being circulated for Yuletide Season is timely. Fake
November 7, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.” – Stephen Fry IT looks like Ilonggos will celebrate the Yuletide Season next
November 6, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “Don’t be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.” – Richard Bach MY friendship with the late Iloilo broadcast personality, Vicente “Danny Baby” Foz, which began in summer 1988, nearly ended one
November 4, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “When you wake up each morning, you can choose to be happy or choose to be sad. Unless some terrible catastrophe has occurred the night before, it is pretty much up to you. Tomorrow morning, when the sun shines through your window, choose to make it a happy day.” – Lynda
November 1, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. – Sai Baba As we age we become conscious of the food we eat primarily because of health reasons. According to dieticians, we are the
October 31, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.” – Cal Thomas WE sympathize with Iloilo City Hall regular employee Rosita Camacho and other alleged victims of persecution under the Treñas administration. We don’t agree that underlings should be zeroed in
October 28, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted. At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.” – Dick Cheney IF the Duterte administration will cancel the much-ballyhooed Iloilo-Guimaras-Negros Bridge
October 25, 2019
elt By: Alex P. Vidal “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.” – Bob Marley WE no longer have a Nene Pimentel in today’s age. In fact, we haven’t produced the likes of Nene Pimentel in
October 24, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things.” – Tricia Griffith THERE are many ways to advertise to the world the tradition and greatness of Ilonggos. One of them is to showcase in whatever means our culture and festivals that reveal who we are and what we
October 23, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” – Immanuel Kant ILONGGOS have the right to protect themselves from law enforcers who apparently aren’t afraid to kill in the name of an “all-out campaign
October 22, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it’s the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.” — Bell
October 21, 2019
By: Alex P. Vidal “I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.” – Sonia Sotomayor THOSE who expect newly designated Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) deputy city director for operations, Lieutenant Colonel Jovie Espendio to singlehandedly erase all the drug traffickers in Bacolod
October 18, 2019