Pet Melliza

Hole of Justice: Grand Plan at the Kingdom by the River (10) : "By Peter Jimenea/ Hole of Justice Oplan Pagbag-o and its center wind, Team Pagbag-o, continues to make the Kingdom by the River more c..."

By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper A GDR taxi hit a broadcast reporter, throwing him down on the concrete road. The radioman’s pair of arms broke and had to be demobilized by plaster casts and metal braces for weeks, months even. His hospital bills shot up above P120,000 in just two days. The taxi company, notwithstanding the super profits it has amassed through the years contributed not a single centavo to its victim. So did the broadcast station owned by a billionaire who feigned ignorance of his obligation to shoulder at least part of the hospitalization of his employee who met the accident in line of duty.  The radioman had just exited from the back gate of the Iloilo Provincial Capitol on motorcycle when hit by a swerving GDR Taxi from behind. Media colleagues rushed him to the nearest hospital, one known to be run by servants of god (whatever that means), which billed him P120,000 or so. He could not be discharged because of unpaid bills. He spent two days more and more than...

Hole of Justice: Grand Plan at the Kingdom by the River (9) : "By Peter G. Jimenea, Hole of Justice The parliament at the Kingdom by the River recently did something funny: it appropriated funds for a no..."

Akala ko mga estudyante ko lang ang tamad magbasa, Pati rin pala ang Korte Suprema, punyeta! Imadyin, inutusan nila ang Kongreso na tigilan muna Ang pagpapa-impeach bilang Ombudsman sa magandang si Mercedita Na wala silang binasang mga dokumento ng ebidensya. Kunsabagay, hindi naman talaga nakapagtataka— Sina Mercedita at Corona ay mga naglalaway na aso ni Gloria! Iyun na! Mga linintian sila! Yudiputa! -J.I.E. TEODORO 24 Pebrero 2011 Huwebes 6:15 n.g. Lungsod Pasig

By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper Since he assumed office last July as chief executive of Igbaras, Iloilo, mayor Vicente Escorpion’s biggest achievement is to dispose of a stockpile of  scraps in the name of cleanliness and beautification. The scraps, heaps of used construction materials from the demolished old market of the town, could have fetched above P2 million but they just disappeared into thin air because somebody from the administration of Mayor Escorpion, if not himself, pocketed the proceeds. The used galvanized sheets could still make sturdy roofing matetials. The un-sawn tree trunks that used to be beams of the old market, were priceless old wood that remained unscathed by the elements, much less by termites, in more than 50 years that the old market served the municipality. So were the lumber flitches that served as diagonal beams. The heaps of scraps could well earn the town above P2 million when sold to junkyards but they went to somebody else’s pockets. Two millio...

Hole of Justice: Grand Plan at the Kingdom by the River (8) : "By Peter G. Jimenea/ Hole of Justice Two employees of the Kingdom by the River have been de facto fired and deprived of their salaries for t..."

Hole of Justice: Grand Plan at the Kingdom by the River (8) : "By Peter G. Jimenea/ Hole of Justice Two employees of the Kingdom by the River have been de facto fired and deprived of their salaries for t..."

SIMPLY BUSINESS: USING PROBIOTICS AND HERBS HAS ME HELPED A LOT! : "I first learned of probiotics in early 2003 when a group of technicians from the Department of Agriculture technicians based..."

SIMPLY BUSINESS: USING PROBIOTICS AND HERBS HAS ME HELPED A LOT! : "I first learned of probiotics in early 2003 when a group of technicians from the Department of Agriculture technicians based..."

SIMPLY BUSINESS: LAGUNDI IS TARGET OF BIG PHARMA COMPANIES : "Big pharma companies are training their guns on the herbal cough preparations that had been authorized by the Department of Health for mass ..."

Pet Melliza: Globe’s gimmickry drives us nuts : "BY PET MELLIZA/ THE BEEKEEPER Last Tuesday, yours truly complained to the Globe center at SM Delgado about its unsolicited offers that could..."

Hole of Justice: The Legacy (Part 2) : "Peter G. Jimenea, Hole of Justice It resonates well with public belief that a good leader can deliver the services needed by constituents. ..."

Hole of Justice: Make my day! : "Cong. Jerry Trenas may be feeding grudge against me for bringing out on line corruption issues against his administration when still a mayor..."

Hole of Justice: A Song for Monalisa : " Hole of Justiceby Peter G. Jimenea A song for Monalisa Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez is actually the one referred hereto as Monalis..."

Hole of Justice: Grand Plan at the Kingdom by the River (7) : "By Peter Jimenea/ Hole of Justice King Bungs, the grapevine says, is busy doing rounds this early, visiting contacts throughout the Kingdom ..."

BY PET MELLIZA/ THE BEEKEEPER Last Tuesday, yours truly complained to the Globe center at SM Delgado about its unsolicited offers that could rob you blind. Its number 2332 notified me “thanking” me for using its ring back tones which it will activate in 15 days worth only P15 per tone. I could not recall having subscribed to any ring tone or consented to any offer from Globe but here it goes again executing a gimmick to earn a windfall by defrauding subscribers. As a matter of habit, whenever, I got such “free” notice from Globe, I immediately deleted it. But it appears that Globe’s number 2332 is too persistent and hell bent to rob subscribers no-matter-what. Anyway, the teller at the Globe center accommodated me and after a few minutes of tinkering with his keyboard, informed me that the service provider would notify me that my ring back tone subscription would be cut off. At early afternoon, I got a text message informing that my unit had been unsubscribed. Minutes later, anoth...

BY PET MELLIZA, The Beekeeper Social networks in the world wide web (WWW) is proving to be a powerful medium   of information that gives a new twist to what “socializing” means.  We thought the word means just “pasosyal-sosyal lang” , the sort of association   done by people to kill time or fight off boredom, the way matronas   converge on hotel lounges  to trade gossips. Pardon this sexist statement; the   same also holds true for men  who are also prone to trivia. Last Friday,   February 11, we got a text message from media colleague Peter Jimenea who  forwarded to   me what he got from Alex Vidal in the U.S. announcing Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak   stepping down, ending 30 years of authoritarian rule. He toppled from widespread   protests, when millions of Egyptians swarmed the streets outpouring   their unarmed outrage  that, incidentally, forced the army into catatonic   inaction. At the initial stages of...

Top photo shows IPC interim president Rommel Ynion and members sign the covenant. Above:Iloilo provincial information officer Marylou B. Sumbing (left), Nelson Robles (c) and Larry Locara (r). ILOILO CITY, PHILIPPINES (February 14, 2011) - Two factions of the feuding Iloilo media sign today a "Covenant of Solidarity" pledging unity and an end to a decade of strife that  periodically erupted in mutual flinging of barbs. A paragraph of the manifesto rallied media people to support Lemuel Fernandez, publisher of the Daily Guardian and principal protagonist in the intramurals, who was injured in an attack.  Fernandez was assaulted one late n ight last month when he was preparing his car to drive home after putting to bed his paper. He was hit with a hard object that injured the right side of his lower head close to his ear. He nearly fell but he still managed to turn around and saw the back of his fleeing attacker. The other faction is led by Daniel Faja...

Iliolo press people, from L-R: Nitz Gobuyan, Roy Cejar,  kapid Gabio and Larry Locara. Iloilo River at the backbround. Taking a rest after the show. Iloilo River. Unfit for recreation. Constricting from intrusion by business establishments. Note: the nipa-thatch roofed structure at the tip of the bridge, is the controversial Barbeque Park which intrudes into the river Former Bombo Radyo reporter now, alderman of Iloilo City, Ely Estante, says that the council is still conducting public hearings on the proposed ordinance making it mandatory for business esablishments, especially "high risk ones" to install close circuit television. Iloilo City lately was rocked by a high-profile robbery of the East West Bank right in the heart of the city. It took just five minutes for the suspects, all in ski-masks and jackets, to take P12 million in deposits which that late early dusk was about to be transferred to the vault. A bank clerk sustained a gunshot wound in the leg when sh...

By Pet Melliza The colonized mind thanks the colonizer for the bondage. We have seen it in the Dinagyang Festival of Iloilo which depicts the native, the Indio, to be pathetically helpless without the White Castillan friar and colonizer. This sado-masochist world view is expressed in the street performances of the festival that skirt the oppression and exploitation suffered by the indio in the hands of the Spanish colonizer for 300 years. The dehumanization of the colonized is veiled under the veneer of gratitude to the colonizer for teaching it the "true" religion. Theme of Spanish superiority and native inferiority recurs and is reaffirmed again and again: the native community is stricken by illness; the native seeks indigenous healers; the disease worsens and results to deaths. The native turns to the Spanish friar who raises up the statuette of the child you-know-what, and viola, the entire village miraculously bounces back to life. In 1900, revolutionaries ambus...

By Peter Jimenea I am momentarily stopping my tirades on Dok Kagaw who called up yours truly to give him time to correct his mistakes. But I am resuming my brickbats on Hydrocephallus, a key agent in Oplan Pagbag-o at the Kingdom by the River whose main agenda is to pave the way for the entrance of Bigboy, called “Grand Plan” by Hydrocephallus and his Jijimon reporters. The Grand Plan is premised on the scenario that King Tura is ill, very ill and that he might not finish his term. Hydrocephallus should know that King Tura is very much healthy and he and his Jijimons are only courting disaster if they continue with their game plan of throwing their weight around and egging out those perceived to be against his bossing Bigboy. Yours truly is very much aware that Hydrocephallus had gone to the palace of King Tura and tipped off the latter who were the “traitors” at the Kingdom by the River. My friend Zarbo, seated away within hearing distance, blurted at him straight face:  “...