THIS corner lauds the Iloilo Provincial Board for its resolution expressing full support for Dr. Joseph Dean Nicolo, chief of the Western Visayas Medical Center, who could have been reassigned to a smaller hospital in Zamboanga due to a politician’s interference. The resolution, authored by Board Member Rolando Distura, cited numerous awards
September 26, 2025
AS I was writing this yesterday, super typhoon Nando was weakening and moving out of the Philippine area of responsibility (PAR), according to the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). No typhoon signal has been raised in Western Visayas. But as PAGASA admits, there is a clear indication that Western
September 24, 2025
“I might be out on the streets if I were not president.” Those words were spoken by President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. in a press conference a week ago. I remembered those words yesterday morning (Sept. 21) while scanning the TV channels for activities unfolding on the “Trillion Peso March,” a multisectoral nationwide protest to call
September 22, 2025
THE “Trillion Peso March” — unfolding nationwide on Sunday to condemn graft and corruption in the implementation of the government’s flood-control projects — coincides with the 53rd anniversary of the declaration of martial law by President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos Sr. on September 21, 1972. If he were not the sitting president, President Ferdinand
September 19, 2025
AS of this writing, Dr. Joseph Dean L. Nicolo — Western Visayas Medical Center (WVMC) chief – has not revealed who she is. “She” refers to the still unrevealed lady congresswoman who allegedly attempted to influence Department of Health (DOH) Secretary Teodoro Herbosa to transfer Nicolo to Labuan General Hospital (LGH) in
September 17, 2025
JUST as we Filipinos are counting dates down to September 23 for a “teleserye” covering the pre-trial hearing of former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Netherlands for “crimes against humanity,” it is not likely to happen. The reason is because Duterte’s British-Israeli lawyer Nicholas Kaufman has
September 15, 2025
“Expect the unexpected” has become a famous quotation attributed to Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher of the late 6th century BCE. “Expect the Unexpected” is the title of the famous 1998 Hong Kong action film about the unexpected turns of events from the start to the end. With that quotation in mind, I
September 12, 2025
MY father having died of lung cancer despite conventional treatment, I always read reports about alternative ways to conquer the disease. The recent one I read on the Internet – “Lies About Cancer Treatment” – alleges that while American cancer victims spend billions of dollars a year for medicine, 98 percent of
September 10, 2025
ANY other ordinary mortal would have refused to “inherit” the burdens of a losing electric cooperative, hitherto known as the Central Negros Electric Cooperative (CENECO) in Bacolod City. But not Roel Z. Castro, better known in Iloilo City as president/CEO of MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power), who accepted the challenge
September 8, 2025
YESTERDAY, I read an online news report addressed to us Filipinos: “Tonight, you can spot Saturn visible in the night sky, as it will be in the opposite direction of the Sun and up for most of the night. You may also be able to see the bright planet Venus and the
September 5, 2025
IN a chance meeting, I asked Engr. Ronnie Primaylon of Roprim Construction, one of the local contractors dealing with the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), whether he had personally met spouses Pacifico and Sarah Discaya. “No,” he answered. It was an unexpected answer, since no less than President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. had
September 3, 2025
SHORTLY before he passed away on February 8 this year at the age of 78, I interviewed renowned Ilonggo painter and illustrator Arturo “Art” Geroche about the medium he had loved and devoted time to. We talked about the demise of the “komiks” as a commercial art which sounds Greek to today’s
September 1, 2025