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  Globe Telecom just succeeded in testing my patienbce:  let me swear this time after restraining myself for 10 days following up my request for repair: Pinaka-potang Ina sa @Globe Telecom whose services continue  to nosedive. In this age of the AI, it has retrogressed after embarking on "downsizing", firing experienced personnel and relying heavily on a single subcontractor (in Iloilo) and call center agents trained to entertain and play cutie-cutie but devoid of the power to bark orders to answer the needs of its growing irate clients. It had three offices before in Iloilo city but downsizing reduced that to a lone office and a lone repair crew, a mere subcontractor which owes loyalty to itself and to multiple principals. Which explains why my request 10 days ago was only greeted by empty promises. Globe broadband conked out November 9. Next day, I personally reported the issue to its lone office in Iloilo. The lady at the desk, a contractual, took my complaint and assured

Yrong-Yrong's Cry of Santa Barbara, its version of Cry of Pugad Lawin, merely invites laughter if not mirth. Pugad Lawin was done August 23, 1896 when the revolutionary movement was in its infancy. A year later, Yrong-Yrong's illustrados dispatched a batallion of "voluntarious", not to support the revolution but to suppress it in defense of Spanish colonialism. The Cry of Santa Barbara, Yrong-Yrong's mimicky of Pugad Lawin (that is, if you buy the yarn of mercenaries disguised as "historians") took place on November 17, 1898, seven or eight months into the final defeat of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines. Which means, the anti-Spanish revolution was already over eight months before these self-proclaimed heroes of Yrong-Yrong regaled us with the "cry" of Santa Barbara. Pugad Lawin signals the birth of an anti-colonial revolution, a national liberation movement to rid this country of Spanish colonialism; Santa Barbara heralds none. Despite

 YRONG-YRONG -- Circa 1996:  miss those yonder decade when Yrong-Yrong's reklamador-in-chief in the person of Buenaventura Geronimo, fought tooth and nails against rulers headed by Haring Mansueto. Datu Mansueto allowed his chieftains to fence off Plaza de Salog and fleeced entrance fees from visitors: Reklamador-in-chief Buenaventura screamed illegal, slammed the book Local Government Code of 1991 on his desk during discussions at the city legislature, and hailed Haring Mansueto and cronies to court. The regional trial court went for the reklamador's contention that plazas "are beyond the commerce of man" (of course, of man; do plants and beasts engage in commerce?). In the same year or thereabouts, Reklamador formed the Yrong-Yrong Business Club comprising his handpicked loyal allies. The club spawned another organization, the Anti-Flood Coalition that raised fists and fury, including a major mass mob that capped by a miting-di-abansi of sort at the defunct Provinci

 Congratulations, municipality of San Miguel, Iloilo on the launching of Iloilo's biggest terminal of farm produce. PNA's press release bills it "biggest" in Panay not just Iloilo. The "bagsakan" is timely to stymie the impact of the scheme of SM in cahoots with the crackpot Datu Saripada Agwak of Yrong-Yrong to de facto privatize the "Super" or "Terminal Market of Yrong-Yrong". The bagsakan of San Miguel is conveniently located and accessible to Leon and Alimodian, two biggest producers of vegetables just as San Miguel is a vegetable basket in itself. Presently, Leon, San Miguel and Alimodian download their farm produce at the Terminal Market of Yrong-Yrong. However, not for long: the de facto privatization in the guise of lease by the SM-Sarip Aguak scheme is expected to jack up costs of trading as Mr. Aguak in the lease contract gives SM Holdings free hand to set the rent. SM is currently constructing a multi-story structure, which on

ILOILO CITY -  Bio-fertilizer gives life to farms without urea, tests in Iloilo Province show. Before, Iloilo farmers have to navigate through the delicate balance of soaring urea prices and lost profits as prices of urea fertilizer  shot passed the ceiling since last year. Its supply dropped after the Russo-Ukraine war broke out in February 2022. Though it went down from P3,500 to P1,500 per bag today, its present cost is still higher than before the war at P800 per bag. "Demonstration farms" in Iloilo Province are proving that farm production are bouncing back without urea, Geron Magbanua, senior agriculturist at the provincial agriculture office (PAO) said.  Farmers cooperating with the government research which in turn does so in collaboration with a private comjpany producing fertilizer, "are encouraged by the results of the validation tests"  in Passi City, New Lucena, Dingle, Tigbauan and Oton towns, added Magbanua. He was designated "validator" by

This photo is not mine. Thanks to the uploader. This was the catholic church of Oton, Iloilo before Lady Caycay. Lady Caycay, the tremblor with 8 plus intensity and the only one with a name world wide, crumpled it like a cardboard killing at least one. That was January 1948. The tremblor's epicenter, Hantik, Antique, belonged to the West Panay Fault, a network that wounds through southern Iloilo, Capiz and Aklan, that is only 10 km from the mega dam in Calinog, Iloilo. Our church in Igbaras, Iloilo reputedly the biggest in Iloilo, crumbled completely. The replacement structure which is big enough, can comfortably fit into it. The church of Panay, Capiz was also damaged: its bell fell and sustained a crack (the biggest bell in Asia). The watch tower cum belfry of Jaro Cathedral, Iloilo City, half of it fell to the ground. (It's about the only belfry in the world detached from the church 100 meters away because it was intended foremostly to alert the Guardia Civil of pirates snea