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Mayor Jed confirms Ynion ‘friendship’ text by Iloilo Views on Aug 15, 2011APPEARING on the cable-TV show Panay Monitor last Friday, Mayor Jed Mabilog answered “yes” to my question on whether his perceived detractor, The News Today publisher Rommel Ynion, had texted him a reconciliatory note. As partially quoted in my p...

Thumb’s up to OSCA; down to the ‘prayer warrior’ by Iloilo Views on Mar 7, 2011NINGAS-KUGON. This is the most apt adjective to visualize the “conflagration” that a school principal ignited when she exposed the alleged organized cheatings that had transpired during Regional Achievement Tests (RAT) and National Achievement Te...

The war against the medicine cartel is not over by Iloilo Views on Feb 25, 2011IN a past column, this writer briefly lashed out at actor Vic Sotto for promoting Solmux (an expensive mucolytic) as “the one” and junking “dahon” (alluding to lagundi leaves) into the waste can. The subliminal message is that lagundi is not...

Gone is the spirit of EDSA by Iloilo Views on Feb 23, 2011WHAT have we to be proud of 25 years since the 1986 bloodless “People Power” or EDSA Revolution? Well, with deep regrets, the Filipino people are no better off today than they were in the 20 years of the Marcos rule. I remember having cried tear...

Unsolicited advice to haters and publishers by Iloilo Views on Feb 9, 2011SINCE we in the media have repeatedly criticized other mortals for “washing dirty linen in public”, this corner laments the resuscitated “word war” between The Daily Guardian and Panay News publishers – Lemuel Fernandez and Danny Fajardo, r...

P-Noy’s half-hearted New Year’s resolution by Iloilo Views on Jan 3, 2011SA ikauunlad ng kalusugan, bisekleta ang kailangan.” Those were no exact words of President Benigno Simeon “Noynoy” Aquino when he spoke of his New Year’s resolution for 2011. But the sentence simply sums up his resolve to keep physically fit...

More on MIWD; a little on postal service by Iloilo Views on Dec 20, 2010THE mandatory injunction order of Judge Edgar Catilo (RTC branch 23) reinstating the ousted Javelosa board of directors and disqualifying the interim one has submerged Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) General Manager Le Jayme Javelosa in very hot w...

No public sympathy for Hubert Webb by Iloilo Views on Dec 14, 2010THE numbers 7-4-4 speak unkindly of the Supreme Court’s acquittal of Hubert Webb and five others who were convicted 15 years ago by the lower court, later affirmed by the Court of Appeals, for the heinous 1991 massacre of Estrellita Vizconde and he...

The white lies of Christmas by Iloilo Views on Dec 10, 2010THIS early, the world counts down the days leading to December 25 – Christmas, the supposed birthday of Jesus Christ. Even non-Christians celebrate it. In fact, it was an American Jew, Irving Berlin, who composed one of the most popular Christmas s...

Was there really a lotto winner? by Iloilo Views on Dec 1, 2010THE initial Tuesday morning radio broadcast on last Monday night’s 6/55 lotto draw pointed to “somebody from Luzon” as lone winner of the heftiest P741-million jackpot. In the afternoon, it turned “woman from Olongapo City.” It was not unti...