“Without a plan, there’s no attack. Without attack, no victory.” – Curtis Armstrong THERE’S a stark contrast between the “attack” that occurred on January 17, 2007, when heavily armed units of the Philippine National Police (PNP) forcibly entered the Iloilo capitol building and the “attack” that allegedly happened in the Philippine
May 22, 2026
“We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.” – Gwendolyn Brooks ALTHOUGH many politically mature Ilonggos are leery of the upcoming meeting between Iloilo City Mayor Raisa Treñas-Chu and Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Undersecretary Jed Patrick Mabilog, it may
May 21, 2026
“Coaches have to watch for what they don’t want to see and listen to what they don’t want to hear.” – John Madden IF President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. were a National Basketball Association (NBA) coach, he wouldn’t win a championship even if he had the best team. Reason: he appears
May 16, 2026
“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.” – Karl Kraus IT’S understandable for some of our media colleagues to jump the gun on the five bogus Manila journalists (the four only actually acted as
May 11, 2026
“Using coercion to drive charity is like using kidnapping to create love.” – Stefan Molyneux ILOILO’s Atong (not the fugitive cockfighting aficionado involved in the missing sabungeros) proved himself to be more savvy and clever compared to the alleged extortionists of former Speaker and Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez. Although he
May 9, 2026
“You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.” — Thomas Wolfe SINCE the presidency of any nation, they say, is “a gift from God,” we suggest leaving Naga City Mayor Leni Robredo alone now that she has expressed no appetite to
May 7, 2026
“If you call your opponent a politician, it’s grounds for libel.” – Mark Russell WHEN our media colleague Manuel “Boy” Mejorada was arrested by police on June 7, 2019 for cyberlibel, it was a Friday night. Mejorada would have been immediately hauled to jail if he wasn’t brought to the St.
May 5, 2026
“The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office.” – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. FOR the record, when the late former Iloilo City congressman and justice secretary Raul M. Gonzalez served as one of the 11 prosecutors from the House of Representatives
May 4, 2026
“Journalism is what we need to make democracy work.”—Walter Cronkite WE are glad to learn that the National Union of Journalists in the Philippines (NUJP) Iloilo Chapter was revived by a group of talented Iloilo journalists in October 2025. We congratulate the chapter and the new members now led by Rjay
May 2, 2026
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” – Benjamin Franklin BOTH talking and writing should be the most effective means of communication in a civilized world. Next is our body language. Thus, we have come to realize it’s not enough that we write, we must also talk or
May 1, 2026
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.” —Benjamin Franklin BOTH talking and writing should be the most effective means of communication in a civilized world. Next is our body language. Thus, we have come to realize it’s not enough that we write, we must also talk or write
April 30, 2026
“A God that never interferes is indistinguishable from a God that doesn’t exist.” — Oliver Markus Malloy WHAT a big embarrassment. It was a case of so near yet so far. The Philippine government did not only bite off more than it could chew, but one of its top officials tasked
April 29, 2026