By Limuel S. Celebria Early this week, Iloilo City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas announced that “I am satisfied” with the AC Energy Philippines (ACEPh) response to the oil spill that occurred off the shores of Bo. Obrero following an explosion that spilled some 260,000 liters of bunker fuel into the waters. Moreover, Treñas also
July 23, 2020
By Limuel S. Celebria A little less than a year ago, our good friend, farmer-entrepreneur Rommel S. Ynion, responding to a quite innocent request from her daughter that he sing her a song, did what any self-respecting father who loves his daughter would do – he brought her a band! Not exactly, really. But,
July 22, 2020
By Limuel Celebria When news broke about an oil spill caused by an explosion in Power Barge 102 moored near Bo. Obrero nearly two weeks ago, some memories of the Guimaras Oil Spill in 2006 flashed into my mind. Still considered the worst oil spill disaster in the country, the Guimaras Oil Spill –
July 16, 2020
Is PECO trying to rise from the dead? A confluence of recent events would seem to indicate so. Let’s take a look. On June 20-21, the district of Mandurriao suffered a sunset-to-sunrise power interruption that nearly sent some people berserk. This was how the city’s new power distributor MORE Power Iloilo described the incident: “At
June 29, 2020
By Limuel S. Celebria THE ILOILO City Council today lauded the National Bureau of Investigation for its speedy and conclusive investigation for the twin killing in January of a call center agent and the son of a former Congressman. IN a resolution authored by City Councilor Ely A. Estante Jr., the council passed unanimously a
June 10, 2020
By Limuel S. Celebria “It is said that the darkest hour of night comes just before the dawn” – Thomas Fuller, English scholar, preacher, and author. IT WAS only in late February this year when a Regional Trial Court judge here granted More Power and Electric Corp. (MORE) a Writ of Possession (WOP) so it
June 8, 2020
By Limuel S. Celebria “It is said that the darkest hour of night comes just before the dawn” – Thomas Fuller, English scholar, preacher, and author. REACTING to a media post on social media platform, facebook, on complaints over recent power interruptions here, a certain Meliton Oso wrote: “Doing maintenance works is good pero kung
June 6, 2020
By Limuel S. Celebria It’s the nth day of being in lockup, uhm lockdown, rather, because of this global pandemic that is CoVid 19. The world is at war against an unseen enemy and it’s chalking up thousands of human casualties – not counting businesses, trades, industries, even whole economies that have been brought to
March 31, 2020
By Limuel S. Celebria Media giant ABS-CBN was in violation of its franchise and the Philippine Constitution insofar as the fundamental law’s requirement that mass media must be 100 percent owned by Filipinos. In a privileged speech delivered during last Tuesday’s regular session of the city council, Councilor Romel D. Duron, chairman of the City
February 20, 2020
By Limuel Celebria Define Talipapa! That is now the problem that confronts Kgd. Ely Armada Estante Jr., chairman of the Iloilo City Council Committee on Markets and Slaughterhouse. Councilor Estante — together with Ariel Castaneda, chief of the Local Economic Enterpise Office and Charlie Hofilena, Executive Assistant for Markets, is seeking steps to regulate the
February 10, 2020
By Limuel S. Celebria The expropriation case filed by MORE Power against Panay Electric has become hotter than the proverbial hot potato. This after a third judge – Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 33 Presiding Judge Ma. Theresa Enriquez-Gaspar – inhibited herself from the case barely a week after it was raffled off to her
January 29, 2020
By Limuel S. Celebria The early versions of the Dinagyang, or the Iloilo Ati-Atihan as it were, was farcical, more comic than consequential. The competing tribes were garbed in robes more appropriate for the cenaculo or the dramatic interpretations of Christ’s sufferings during Easter. Until now, how the Roman centurion costume became part of the
January 23, 2020