AT this time when most distribution utilities charge electricity consumers ₱14 per kilowatt-hour, MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) will be billing Iloilo City residents only ₱8.7749/kWh within the billing period of June 18 to July 12, 2024. It’s a big fall from the previous rate of ₱11.32/kWh. Contrary to the previous
June 21, 2024
IF Dr. Jose P. Rizal were alive today (June 19, 2024), he would have turned 163 years old. He died very young at 35, executed by the Spanish colonial government on December 30, 1896 in Bagumbayan Field (what is now Rizal Park) for the crime of rebellion. He could have opted to
June 19, 2024
WHY only now? This was the question that bothered me yesterday upon reading the news that the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) was looking into Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGO) sites at the Multinational Village in Parañaque City, where suspected sleeper agents of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) reside. They should have
June 17, 2024
WE heard Rep. France Castro (ACT Teachers) loud and clear: The only way to eliminate the criminal activities of the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) is to revoke all licenses granted to them. In House Bill 10525 filed to that effect, Castro correctly blamed the Chinese POGOs for routinely violating Philippine laws
June 14, 2024
SENATOR Lito Lapid was reported to have asked the Senate to go deeper in probing the raids done by elements of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Commission (PAOCC) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) last Friday and Saturday in the suspected hub of Lucky South 99, a Philippine offshore gaming operator (POGO) in Porac, Pampanga. To
June 12, 2024
IT HAS BEEN one week since the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) declared the rainy season this year “open”. Yesterday, I woke up to the “tune” of a drizzle. The rainy season is most welcome because the heat index now feels like hell while our faucets belch air instead
June 7, 2024
POOR distribution utilities (DUs), are now on the anvil of critical blows from consumers who complain about hiked rates and frequent brownouts. Yesterday, we heard our friends from the broadcast media taking up the cudgels for Iloilo City consumers who often agonize for as long as 12 hours of brownouts. Why now
June 5, 2024
JOY to the world, June has come. This month comes with the opportunity for nubile women to earn the tag “June bride.” Alas, however, applying the June wedding tradition to Filipinos does not make sense. It stems from the superstition that marriages in June are blessed. There is nothing “Pinoy” in the
June 3, 2024
BETTER late than never. There is no more excuse for the Senate to go slow on probing the connection between Bamban, Tarlac Mayor Alice Guo and the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGO), whether or not she is a Filipino citizen. It is already undisputed that the 36 buildings at the 10-hectare Bamban
May 31, 2024
FIRST, let me say that I voted for Leni Robredo for President in 2022. I believe she was robbed of that post in a fraudulent election. But that is not what this column is all about, since even we doubters have already recognized Ferdinand Marcos Jr. as the de facto President. The
May 29, 2024
WITH or without a divorce law, there is a limit to a man’s or woman’s patience with a failed marriage, which would lead to the couple’s break-up. But with a divorce law, both spouses could peacefully terminate a mismatched union and be free to remarry and live happily ever after There is
May 27, 2024