NO thanks to disinformation, there are disabled overseas – or those no longer fit to board again — who give up on ever getting disability benefits that they are entitled to. If truth be told, they have good chances of earning disability benefits on demand. For mere failure to fight for it,
August 7, 2024
THE month of August augurs well for thousands of electricity consumers in Passi City and 15 towns of Iloilo province. Now they have a choice – either to remain connected with the Iloilo Electric Cooperative (ILECO) or shift to the Iloilo City-based MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) in accordance with
August 5, 2024
WE found ourselves having coffee with former Iloilo City Mayor Jose “Joe” Espinosa III at Hotel del Rio last Sunday. The one and only question I asked him was whether he had smoked the peace pipe with his brother-in-law, incumbent Mayor Jerry Treñas. He would not comment for whatever reason. But his ear-to-ear
August 1, 2024
A nanny’s life in Saudi Arabia THE TYPICAL Filipina nanny in Saudi Arabia is well-respected even in the homes of princes and princesses. So said our informant, Kristine Dela Peña of Barangay Bacan, Cabatuan, Iloilo. She had worked as a nanny for a10-year-old daughter of a royal family whose identity she would
July 29, 2024
LIKE most opinion writers, I agree with two pronouncements that really mattered in the State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. First, “Effective today, all POGOs are banned.” Better late than never. The President has finally discovered the true color of the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) that
July 27, 2024
“NOT true,” said former Valderrama, Antique mayor Ray Roquero in a chance meeting with this writer here in Iloilo City on Monday (July 15). He was referring to the rumor that that Senator Loren Legarda would no longer support him but Vice-Governor Edgar Denosta instead for governor in election 2025. This column
July 22, 2024
By Herbert Vego A puppet politician is one under the control of a more powerful politician. There seems to be a number of these puppets in Antique who are no longer happy with the way their movers sway them. They are not capable of deciding for themselves. The “uniteam” of Governor Rhodora “Dodod” Cadiao and
July 15, 2024
THE good news from MORE Electric and Power Corp., the exclusive distribution utility in Iloilo City, is that it has poured in ₱115 million to build Panay Island’s first-ever centralized power control system. As revealed to us by MORE Power President/CEO Roel Z. Castro, “The new facility responds to the urgent need for power
July 12, 2024
IT had taken months of discussions before the proposed Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) between the Philippines and Japan took the form of a military pact that only needs ratification by legislatures of both countries to roll out. But as we all know now, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa and Defense Minister Kihara
July 10, 2024
THIS paper’s editorial last Saturday zeroed in on the ongoing demolition of the Iloilo City Central Market for being “like a ghost that refuses to die despite Mayor Jerry Treñas’ efforts to assure the public of the demolition’s regularity through rose advertorials and canned statements of support.” Columnist Alex P. Vidal, on
July 8, 2024
WE can’t count on all fingers and toes the number of Christian sects that we know about. We can’t even name nor recognize all the main groups that constitute the Christian religion worldwide. Google tells us there are six main groups of Christianity in the world: The Church of the East, Oriental
July 5, 2024
THE sudden visit of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. in San Jose, Antique on Thursday – ostensibly to extend financial and technical assistance to farmers and fisherfolk – must have influenced Governor Rhodora “Dodod” Cadiao to “overhaul” her political line-up for the 2025 election. She has to, since she is somersaulting from the
July 3, 2024