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Treñas for smooth PECO-to-MORE transition

“LEVEL up! Level up!” We often hear Mayor Jerry P. Treñas shout those words in addressing the people of Iloilo City, echoing his determination to skyrocket the city to...

The house on Harvard Street

WHY did Panay Electric Co. (PECO) choose the Regional Trial Court (RTC Branch 209) as venue in which to file a civil case questioning the constitutionality...

A charter city for 82 years

COME Sunday, Aug. 25, Iloilo City will mark its 82nd anniversary as “charter city” without much pageantry – unlike last year when the city splurged P5...

PECO’s overdue exit in sight?

THAT statement would preferably have ended with a period rather than a question mark. But due to the protracted refusal of Panay Electric Co. (PECO) to...

Growing up with the radio

I WAS three years old in 1953 when I first heard the radio in our barangay in San Jose, Antique. My father had brought home a...

Seafaring is not always fun

MY brother Randy is a seaman. Whenever he comes home from nine months at sea, he looks thinner. He spends most of his vacation time at...

Cheaper med law useless

THIS writer, confined in a hospital for one week already, hopes to be discharged today. One thing I have found out is that medicine prices have...

Welcome, billionaire Enrique Razon, Jr.

IT WAS A sprightly Julienne “Jam-jam” Baronda, the first congresswoman of Iloilo City, who told us the good news that Don Enrique K. Razon Jr., the...

Gasping for sustainable productivity

OUR human resources – the skilled and unskilled laborers who toil for a living for the survival of their families – are the cogs in the...

Was that sea disaster ‘God’s will’?

“GOD’S WILL” is a two-word of comfort we say to the bereaved family over death of a loved one.  But whether the persons condoled think so...