RURAL UPDATE: Keep low budget; attract new business or expansion
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
IT appears that even the business sector that originally opposed the increase in real estate taxes (RET) by the Iloilo City Hall...
RURAL UPDATE: The provincial evacuation center
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
WE read of the groundbreaking ceremony held recently in Barangay Tagbac Sur in Oton, Iloilo for the proposed site of a provincial evacuation center with a P10-million budget from the...
RURAL UPDATE: Budgeting and control
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
AS early as the middle of last month, we heard of the plan of Iloilo City to increase the rate of real property tax (RPT).
In our column of July...
RURAL UPDATE: More on preparing for the APEC
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
IN our column of July 29, 2014, we talked about Iloilo’s selection as host of two meetings from 10 member-countries in the forthcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit scheduled from September...
RURAL UPDATE: Banking correspondent arrangement
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
WE were amazed by the speed by which Congress approved the amendment to Republic Act No. 7721, the “Act Liberalizing the Entry and Scope of Operations of Foreign Banks...
RURAL UPDATE: APEC Summit
JOHNNY NOVERA
THE front page of Panay News on Saturday bannered the selection of Iloilo City and Boracay as among the venues of the Asia-Pacific...
RURAL UPDATE: Taxes, construction and land use
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
BY coincidence, the idea espoused in our column last week for the city of Iloilo to adopt at this stage of our development, “Attract...
RURAL UPDATE: Attract more investors: No tax increase please
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
IN our column last week titled, “The ranking of our cities”, Iloilo was on 19th place in terms of income as against other Philippine cities in 2013, according to...
Rural Update: MIWD take over by the city?
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
MAYOR Jed Patrick Mabilog has proposed a takeover by Iloilo City of the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD).
Well, with due respect to Iloilo City’s...
Rural Update: Water is not the problem; it is management
BY JOHNNY NOVERA
RECENTLY, for two days the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) lost its water supply from Flo Water Resources Iloilo, Inc. which cut-off delivery because the water district...