Potentials of expanding the service of banks
WE TALKED of the urgent need to expand banking services in our column on Wednesday last week.
We wish that new Bangko Sentral governor Benjamin...
Urgent need to expand banking services
WITH DUE respect, we are sad that then Bangko Sentral (BSP) governor Nestor A. Espenilla Jr. passed away on Feb. 23, 2019, after battling tongue cancer for more than a year. He...
Bright prospects for the rice industry in Iloilo
ONE GOOD news last week was that work on the P11.2-billion Jalaur River Multipurpose Project Phase II (JRMP II) will finally start this month, implementing the contract signed...
New tariff law will discourage rice farming
PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte signed last week into law the Rice Tariffication Bill, which he certified as urgent when filed in Congress in October ...
Why not college education for everyone?
PANAY News mentioned in its editorial of Feb. 12 data in 2016 from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) that about 10,000 children were reported as...
A love poem to remember
WITH Valentine’s Day on the 14th or two days from now, instead of writing a commentary in our column today, we are sharing with...
New year, new hope
We are glad that with the intervention of the Department of Energy (DOE) in our power problem, the conflicting parties have upheld public interest...
Does our city zoning ordinance need updating?
WE HAVE written a previous article in this column, “Zoning shapes the city”, that pointed out the need for a strict enforcement of current...
PECO and MORE Power drama continues
ON WEDNESDAY of the week before Christmas, Lapsus Calami, our neighbor on this page, made comments about our article of Dec. 18th on Panay...
Public utilities and politics
MAYBE, this is about the last piece we will write about Panay Electric Company’s (PECO) and MORE Electric and Power Corp.’s (MORE Power) conflicting sides because the expiry date of...