“WITH MORE Power comes great sustainability.” It might have germinated as a parody of a movie slogan. But it makes more sense as far as MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) is concerned. “If I could further cut the price of electricity,” said company president Roel Z. Castro, “I would do
March 4, 2022
THIS writer remembers that sometime in 2016, our then-Congressman Jerry P. Treñas (now mayor), invited renowned Architect Augusto “Toti” Villalon to Iloilo City for a press conference. Villalon – a tireless advocate of heritage conservation – told us that the congressman had tapped him to restore the Jaro Plaza to its original
March 2, 2022
AS of yesterday, the average pump prices of gasoline and diesel here in Iloilo City have exceeded P66 and P56, respectively. It’s anybody’s guess that prices of prime commodities would correspondingly soar as Russian armed forces push deeper in Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion of neighboring Ukraine. It’s because the attacks by Russia,
February 28, 2022
MAYOR Elmer Untaran was rumored to have been one of the mayors prevented by Rep. Loren Legarda from gracing the political rally of Vice President Leni Robredo and Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan Wednesday last week (Feb. 16). “Not true,” he told this writer on the phone yesterday. “In fact, I had received
February 25, 2022
YESTERDAY marked the first day of the 36th anniversary of People Power Revolution on February 22 to 25, 1986. Within those four days, over a million Filipinos took to Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA) to overthrow the 20-year regime of President Ferdinand Marcos. The precipitating events leading to that historic finale had been
February 23, 2022
THAT was former Antique Governor Salvacion “Inday Sally” Zaldivar Perez talking to this writer on the phone to deny the rumor that Rep. Loren Legarda had a hand in preventing lawyer Abdiel “Ade” Santillan Fajardo — Liberal Party (LP) candidate for congressman – from joining the political rally of Vice-President Leni Robredo
February 21, 2022
THE yelling crowd that congested the EBJ Freedom Park in San Jose, Antique the other day was just another indicator of impending victory for Vice-President Leni Robredo, now the leading candidate for President of the Philippines. That was not surprising. As in previous campaign sorties elsewhere, she bewitched the Antique multitude with her articulate
February 18, 2022
WORD has been going around that Vice-President Leni Robredo is coming to San Jose, Antique today to seek the support of the Antiqueños. As everybody knows, she is seeking the presidency, with Sen. Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan as her vice-presidential running mate and 11 senatorial candidates coming from various political parties. Their 12th Senate bet
February 16, 2022
TODAY is Valentine’s Day. It’s not a holiday, but the whole world celebrates February 14 as lovers’ red-letter day. It is the special day when married couples, fiancés and fiancées exchange love notes, whisper sweet nothings and go out for dinner or a hotel tryst. The most visible symbol of this day
February 14, 2022
TODAY marks the 36th anniversary of the assassination of the late Evelio B. Javier, a former governor of Antique. What happened on February 11, 1986 has been permanently etched in history books as a prelude to the People Power revolution a few days later on February 22-25, 1986 that led to the
February 11, 2022
THE decision of Rep. Loren Legarda (lone district, Antique) to abandon her constituency in order to run for senator on May 9, 2022 was unexpected. She had been very vocal about rejecting many attractive and lucrative positions in the national government because she was thinking of her home province that had remained one
February 9, 2022
YOU have heard and read it a thousand times: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” The proverbial advice to eat an apple a day is believed to have appeared in print first in 1866. It conveyed the idea that apple eaters pay fewer visits to doctors than non-apple eaters. But
February 7, 2022