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 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

Stupidity knows no bound Ordinary drivers know this simple principle; Iloilo city hall people don't. The latter are supposed to know but they are proving today right before our very eyes how true the saying is that "ignorance is intentional".  Ignorance doesn't happen by accident; it is intended as what Iloilo City Hall does by its intransifence to follow national law and policy.  The officials of Iloilo City, particularly, the "public safety and traffice management office" (PSTMO) have read and heard, seen even, that seizing drivers' licenses for violations collides with national law and policy. No less than the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are one in declaring that issuing citation tickets suffices for apprehending traffic violators. Seizing the drivers' licenses of violators is illegal as that would place the apprehended drivers liable for "driving

 GUIMARAS, an island province off eastern Panay Island may not be rich but it’s not broke either. It’s baffling though how the province that rightly boasts of its mangoes, cashew and countless resorts readily groveled down to the cheap enticement of a business corporation, one that produces alcoholic beverages, to erect on one of its promontories a structure ala Hollywood bearing the letters that spells the island’s name. First off: it’s good but not necessary, even if the “G-U-I-M-A-R-A-S” is facing the Iloilo Straight where inter-island and ocean faring vessels navigate or berth.  On board those ships are travelers to begin with: this means they already know or, if they didn’t, they are surrounded be opportunities like fellow crew or passengers, to identify the island. Wonder if Gov, Rahman Nava really celebrated at the installation of a giant visual which de facto turned his  island into a cheap victim of Lucio Tan’s advertisement gimmick. That harkens us back several years ago when