
Costlier energy inevitable
By Herbert Vego NO consumer wants an increase in prices of basic commodities. It’s a truism that applies to electricity, which is a critical component...

By Herbert Vego NO consumer wants an increase in prices of basic commodities. It’s a truism that applies to electricity, which is a critical component...

“GRIN and bear it,” you must have heard, is advice asking a friend to accept something that he dislikes because there is no choice. This is the situa...

SINCE 1972, I must have written 50 columns about the declaration of martial law by President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos 50 years ago. Known as Proclamat...

SINCE my previous articles on inflation have earned encouraging “likes,” let me write an update on the subject. While it’s not literally true that inf...

“A FRIEND in need,” says a hackneyed quotation, “is a friend indeed.” I cannot forget the quotation because of a ticklish experience I had with Manny,...

THE last time this writer interviewed Iloilo City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas, he enthused about the ongoing “second phase” of rehabilitating the Jaro Plaza...

I HAVE hooked myself to Internet videos promoting frugality or thrift as the best option to survive inflation, which has disabled wage earners from sp...

By Herbert Vego EARLY last Tuesday, I learned that billionaire Enrique K. Razon Jr., 62, had landed on his private plane in Iloilo City. I thought it...

“We are still the cheapest distribution utility in the Philippines.” That was how Ms. Maricel C. Pe – assistant vice president for customer care of MO...