A coat of paint should not cost a life
THERE ARE road safety problems that require billions of pesos, complicated engineering and years of construction. Repainting a pedestrian lane is not one of...
Roads to progress must not become roads to extinction
ROADS are among the most visible symbols of progress. They connect remote communities to schools, hospitals and markets. They shorten travel, stimulate commerce and...
Green energy can’t green if it destroys forests
THE TRANSITION to renewable energy is necessary. But not every project carrying the label “renewable” is automatically environmentally responsible. That distinction matters greatly in...
Protect Central Panay before protection becomes meaningless
DEVELOPMENT is necessary. Roads connect communities. Energy projects strengthen the economy. But there are places where the question should not simply be how quickly...
Saving children before the crash
THE MOST important number in the Police Regional Office 6’s Oplan Sagip Bata is not the 1,096 operations conducted since July. It is the...
Blood before disaster strikes
DISASTER preparedness cannot begin only when the storm makes landfall, the earthquake strikes, the highway crashes happen or patients start arriving at emergency rooms....
If Tubungan can, why not the rest?
ILOILO Province does not have to look far for proof that its ambitious sanitation target can be achieved. It only has to look at...
1,618 barangays to go
ILOILO Province has set an admirable but daunting goal: every one of its 1,721 barangays should achieve Grade 2 certification under the Philippine Approach...
Built for yesterday’s rain
ILOILO City received a brutal warning on August 17: 197 millimeters of rain fell in just six hours, flooding 70 barangays and affecting more...
Getting in is not enough
A CHILD enrolled is not necessarily a child educated.
That distinction should trouble Western Visayas. It is confronting declining enrollment across elementary, junior high...