BY hiring 16 expensive lawyers from the Fortun Narvasa & Salazar law office to defend her, Vice President Sara Duterte seems to validate the “unexplained wealth” portion of the impeachment case filed against her by the House of Representatives. As reported, one of the 16 articles of impeachment alludes to “betrayal of
June 25, 2025
I am writing this for whatever ray of hope it may offer to patients with cancer or any other debilitating disease. This is the story of my late brother Efren, a police officer who lived for a full 17 years and five months of “bonus life” after surgery due to pancreatic cancer.
June 23, 2025
WE chanced upon electricity consumers from the 1st and 2nd districts of Iloilo meeting with MORE Power spokesman Jonathan Cabrera at Hotel del Rio. Accompanied by Pavia, Iloilo councilor Jose Maria “Pyt” Trimañez, they reiterated their request for the distribution utility to expand from its Iloilo City homebase to their municipalities. We heard them say, “We
June 20, 2025
IT is ironic that while Vice President Sara Duterte-Carpio has repeatedly expressed “welcome” to her impeachment trial so she could answer the charges against her, the Senate – now on its dual role as the impeachment court –appears bent on aborting it on technical grounds that are now familiar to everybody. Anyway,
June 18, 2025
FINALLY, there is no more stumbling block to the authority of MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) to expand its electricity distribution services beyond Iloilo City to 15 Iloilo municipalities and the component city of Passi. In a recently-promulgated decision, the Supreme Court (SC) denied the motion for reconsideration filed by Iloilo Electric
June 16, 2025
THOUGH President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has repeatedly been quoted to have said he was against the impeachment trial of his former ally Vice President Sara Duterte, that no longer resonates. Just last Monday while attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, he predicted that the
June 13, 2025
POLITICALLY correct! That’s how this corner views the “love” letter of Julie “Love-Love” Grace Baronda, the incoming vice mayor of Iloilo City, to incoming mayor Raisa Treñas-Chu. She reportedly sought political reconciliation. Why? Hasn’t her sister, Rep. Julienne “Jam-Jam” Baronda, made it clear that any move to reconcile should come from the Treñases?
June 11, 2025
“THE House of Representatives’ version of a legislated wage hike bill, which increases minimum wage earners’ salaries by ₱200 per day, has been approved on third and final reading,” yesterday’s newspapers reported. Good news? Assuming it ripens into a law, it could help. However, since that’s not all there is to monetary
June 6, 2025
THE word is out that Senate President Chiz Escudero and 10 other senators have hatched a plan to abort the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte on technical grounds – a move seen as his way to keep the Senate presidency. It is public knowledge that a newly-elected senator, former Senate President Tito
June 4, 2025
IN a previous issue (27 May 2025) this corner echoed the argument of critics of electric cooperatives urging the conversion of electric cooperatives into regulated private corporations, since they have been losing billions of pesos in government loans and subsidies. Among a score of losing electric cooperatives, I cited the case of the Central
May 30, 2025