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Friday, June 20, 2025

Rural Update

Open uninhabited islands to new settlements

BY JOHNNY NOVERA IN OUR article of Feb. 14, 2017 titled “Un-inhabited Islands” we mentioned of the total number of islands in our archipelago at 7,507, adding 400 new ones lately discovered. According to NAMRIA or...

RURAL UPDATE

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Where the banks are, there is progress FIGURES cited in our column last week based on a survey of Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas...

RURAL UPDATE | The jeepney again

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Tuesday, July 4, 2017       THE DEPARTMENT of Trade and Industry (DTI) was asked recently by the Department of Transportation (DOTr) for help to come up with guidelines on the...

RURAL UPDATE | Why repair good roads?   

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Monday, June 26, 2017 WE ARE HAPPY happy with the road-widening programs in Iloilo especially to the Iloilo Airport – a six-lane highway...

RURAL UPDATE | Man-made islands good but inland investments better

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Tuesday, June 13, 2017 THERE was a proposal featured in Panay News last week from a local realty company, Marikudo Real Estate Development Corp....

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Tuesday, June 6, 2017   THIS STREET eastward from the first gate of Baluarte Elementary School up to the junction of Infante Avenue...

RURAL UPDATE | It is Batiano’s turn for rehab

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Tuesday, May 30, 2017 WE WROTE two consecutive columns on May 9 and 16 concerning the rehabilitation of the Batiano River which has been neglected in contrast to the continuing...

RURAL UPDATE | The aliens are coming

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Wednesday, May 24, 2017 WHAT attracted our attention for some time now is this Notice of Filing of Application/s for Alien Employment Permit/s published...

RURAL UPDATE | More on the Batiano – Iloilo’s twin river body

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Tuesday, May 16, 2017     WE ASKED in our column last week what happened to the rehabilitation plans for the Batiano River which, according to the Department of...

RURAL UPDATE | River rehab for Batiano, what happened?

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Tuesday, May 9, 2017   AS A COLUMNIST, we had the opportunity to watch the development of the Iloilo River and wrote a series of articles concerning...