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TAX PAYERS IN YRONG-YRONG are bleeding from the 300+% hike in real property taxes that a “midnight” tax ordinance imposed in the dead of the night sans public hearing (therefore void) that the outgoing set of members of the consejo de jalo rushed before the freshly elected councilors took their seats on July 1, 2022.   Datu Saridpada Agwak, author of multi-billion peso loans in his two consecutive terms (the same author of the P2B Pavia haws shiao) flexed his bogus generosity in response to public outrage by offering 40% “discount” on prompt payers, which turns out no better than Damocles’s Sword that may fall on taxpayers’ heads anytime at the pleasure of Datu Saripada Agwak’s himself before his second straight term expired.   That same sword can fall anytime on our heads, this time, at the whim of Rise-Rise, successor, alter-ego and political alter-ego of her father DSA who is behind the political wheel back stage.   Conventional and cyber media today are gloati...

  GLOBE SHORTCHANGES SUBSCRIBERS, LONE SUBCONTRACTOR The "screen grab" below is the 8th apology yours truly received from Globe Telecom this afternoon after breaking its 8th promise done through text messaging of dispatching a crew of technicians to my place. Globe services continue to deteriorate, outcome of its greed for super-profits. That same greed pushed it to fire seasoned employees and replace them with contractuals, an attack against labor. That same greed prompted it to whittle its four branches in Iloilo with paying machines on top of human tellers receiving payments, down to only one which is both an attack on labor and subscribers making it harder for the latter to pay their bills and complain. Before, we subscribers, found it easier to communicate our concerns because people getting our calls or waiting at windows, are human beings and experienced employees. Today, the other end of the line getting calls are robots who ask you to wait as they refer your calls t...

  (Globe Telecom said sorry yesterday for breaking its promise to send a crew to reconnect my WiFi and land line. It promised (again) to send a crew today (November 19). (Minutes ago, it texted sorry anew because its technicians aren't coming over as promised. It made another promise but did not specify the day and time of their coming. (Below is my post on how "reliable" Globe Telecom is.) --------------------------------- Globe Telecom's greed for super-profits is unraveling. Irate subscribers in Iloilo are migrating to other internet providers because Globe telecom has no repair crew of its own but relies on a single subcontractor who's deep on its nape in water due to daily calls for repair. My Globe WiFi and landline conked out Nov. 9 which I reported personally the next day, remains unconnected to date, 8 days after the report. Globe gives only empty promises after empty romises of swift repair. Its single subcontractor is just overwhelmed by the demands. It...

  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 assu...

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 mimickry 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 done 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...