By Francis Allan L. Angelo The wage board should raise the Western Visayas minimum wage by PHP 50 a day. They should make it effective right after Nov. 19. Western Visayas grew 6.4 percent in 2025. That was the fastest rate in the country. National growth hit just 4.4 percent. Output per person here rose
October 14, 2026
Nearly 1,500 workers just lost their jobs. Semirara suddenly feels a lot smaller. Here, an employment contract is more than a piece of paper. It is the scaffolding that holds up the local economy, the schools, and the hospital. On Sept. 19, the Department of Energy scrapped the 2026 Coal
October 10, 2026
Jeffrey Archer died at his home on Monday, Oct. 5. He was 86. His publisher, HarperCollins, said he went “suddenly and peacefully” between writing sessions. The day before, he was on stage in London with broadcaster Gyles Brandreth, signing books for fans and telling them his new novel would be
October 7, 2026
A 55-gram packet of Lucky Me! La Paz Batchoy carries the name of a district in Iloilo City, but the district’s broth makers hold no statutory protection over it. A 2026 policy paper by Mary Rose Rebueno and Ramon Benedicto Alampay in the Philippine Journal of Public Policy: Interdisciplinary Development
October 6, 2026
Daily Guardian is part of the fact-checking movement. We publish fact-checks, we stand by them, and we will keep doing so. But we have also learned the limits of the work. A fact-check corrects a post but It rarely tells readers who paid for it. A new chapter by researchers
October 2, 2026
Iloilo City’s economy grew 6.1% in 2025. Yet fewer residents actually had jobs. Those figures come from the Institute of Contemporary Economics, specifically its latest study, “From Production to Capability,” released this month. It measures on-the-ground reality in 82 provinces and 33 highly urbanized cities. The study picks up where
September 15, 2026
The machines were never the problem. Voters across the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao go to the polls on Monday, September 14, marking the region’s first regular parliamentary election. Yet the two most serious independent assessments of the vote barely mentioned the counting system. Instead, they focused on the
September 12, 2026
Vice President Sara Duterte’s appearance at the Quezon City Hall of Justice on Sept. 5 turned into an unscripted display of political whiplash. Arriving to post PHP 360,000 bail on a grave threats charge, she hesitated at the entrance and openly declared her distrust of the very institutions she and
September 8, 2026
By Francis Allan L. Angelo The Visayas grid hit red alert for a second straight day on Friday, Sept. 4. The main culprits were exactly the same as the day before: the unavailability of Therma Visayas Inc. (TVI) Unit 1 in Toledo City, Cebu, and Panay Energy Development Corp. (PEDC) Unit 3 right here in
September 5, 2026
Western Visayas grew faster than any other region in the country last year, but it remains only the eighth-largest of the 18 regional economies. Together, these two findings from the latest PSA release paint a complete picture. The Provincial Product Accounts published in August pegged regional economic growth at 6.38% for
September 4, 2026
By Francis Allan L. Angelo Somewhere in this republic, a man named Xuniso P. Belat exists, and the official record says the government paid him for information. Belat. Say it out loud. It is the sound a child makes with the tongue out and a finger dragging down one eyelid, the oldest taunt in any
August 25, 2026
Filipinos ranked a woman who says she is not running second in the 2028 presidential field, handed the only declared candidate her commanding numbers in a single region, and left a bloc of voters larger than the third placer entirely uncommitted. Those three findings sit inside the June 2026 WR
August 5, 2026