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The flying kalubay at the confrontation between city bureaucrats and diplaced vendors at the Super Market fielded by Rise-Rise, progeny-successor of Datu Saripada Agwalk the Mayor Domo of SM Prime Holdings, signaled the start of resistance against Mayor Domo's singular act of de facto handing over the Super and Central Markets to the conglomerate stock, lock and sinker. The missile flung by an irate vendor hit an enforcer of the Local Economic Enterprise Office (LEEO) which was created to serve the people of Yrong-Yrong but mutated into Quinta Columna as devised by Mayor Domo and Rise-Rise: protect SM Prime Holdings from competition posed by sustenance traders. Before the sell out, bolanteros customarily delivered products whole sale to stall holders inside the public markets. They sold the rest of their deliveries along the perimeters. That was no problem; it might have slowed down traffic but neither drivers nor pedestrians grumbled against that because they all benefited from t...

  When Datu Saripada Agwak handed over two premier real estate properties of the people of Yrong-Yrong to his lord and master for a song, SM Prime Holdings, he neither had the welfare of consumers nor of small vendors, especially the ambulant ones, in mind. The ordinance in the guise of traffic management, prohibiting ambulant vendors is hatched for that, that is, ban small entrepreneurs from making a living on one hand, and on the other, ensure super profits to his lord and master (which is also the lord and master today of his progeny and successor Rise-Rise) -- SM Prime Holdings. No, Datu Saripada Agwak contrived of that more sinister plot than in cahooots with SM Prime Holdings, that is, displace, cripple and destroy small entrepreneurs who make honest living at the Tienda Mayor (Central Market) and Terminal Market (Super Market), both of which are now in the firm clutches of SM Prime Holding which the "contract of lease" describes as "lesee" but in reality, is...

The picture below was taken at the time when Black Friday or Viernes Santo devotees poured out to the streets at around 4-5 pm and wound back to church at 6-7 pm. After that, a vigil followed until midnight. Next midnight, the Mater Dolorosa and her Crucified Son "met" for some sort of "buklas lalaw" where the sorrowful mother's veil is lifted. The deep purple veils of sorrow shrouding all "santos" in the church including the Crucified One, is pulled down and communal worship begins where the minister blesses not only water and oil but as well, all means that makes lives of worshippers abundant. Pardon this repetition, the anticipated rise of the Crucified One, heralds fresh life prompting worshippers to bring samples of their seeds and tools of production that include but not limited to paray, mais, mongo and other beans, etc. brought to church for blessing. In my yonder years as acolyte, the tools dragged to worship included passenger vehicles, priv...

  The dramatis personae of the so-called Cry of Santa Barbara were actually Voluntarios, a pro-Spanosh militia dispatched to Luzon to join the Guardia Civil quell the Revolution in 1897 led by Andres Bonifacio in Manila. They staged the Cry of Santa Barbara on Nov. 17, 1898, seven months after the Guardia Civil was crushed and the last Governor General had fled to, of all places, Iloilo City where he was protected by Ilonggo elite, the same caboodle who had raised funds to train, arm and dispatch a batallion of Voluntarios to Manila. That earned Iloilo the Spanish royal moniker La Muy Noble y Leal Ciudad de Iloilo. No, the Voluntarios which later renamed itself Ejercito Popular, including its supposed titular head with the rank of general, was a bunch of bogus heroes, charlatans in fact if not opportunists and traitors. I copied-pasted here the link to the docu which prompted me to scribble the reaction above. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1b7hcCBJvY/

The Iloilo Provincial Employees and Community Multi-Purpose Cooperative, Inc. is one cooperative that beffles at least yours truly if not somebody else. The contact points, the lines of communications it offers the public to reach it, namely the two emails and two phone numbers are not working. It makes one wonder why <ipempc@yahoo.com> and <ipempc@gmail.com> and the lines (033) 332-6703 and 09177025755 -- all of which it personnel gave out to members yestrerday during the general assembly held at X-ing Hotel, Iloilo City are not working. Sorry for this repetition, I dialed four times as of this writing (033) 332-6703 and 09177025744 and all that yours truly got were rings, rings, rings, rings ad infinitum until my CP stopped dialing. I attempted twice more and all I got were unanswered rings. Same for its two email addresses <ipempc@yahoo.com> and <ipempc@gmail.com>: my two emails one to each yesterday and another round today, were unanswered. My emails did not...

  "Bolanteros", the Visayan for ttransient or temporary vendors who once added life to the brisk commerce at the Super and Central markets, are gone now as result of "mallification". Yrong-Yrong City and majority of its "honorables" just love SM Prime Holdings at the expense of the vendors. These subsistence entrepreneurs are self-sufficient and add revenues to the local government which traits are eroded by "mallification", that is, the city government, having volunteered as water boy, executive assistant, alalay, tong collector of SM Prime Holdings, owner of chains of malls nationwide which the regime of Datu Saripada Agwak have gifted, yes gifted", de facto full ownership and control of Yrong-Yrong's two prime real estate assets totaling 3 ha. + for at least 50 years. During these 50 years, SM gets all the collections from rents, fees on delivery trucks and parking vehicles of market goers. During 50 years, SM pays no rent, that is, ...