Pet Melliza

Hole of Justice: Grand Plan at the Kingdom by the River (22) : "By Peter G. Jimenea/ Hole of Justice If you have a FaceBook account and get “invited” by a certain King Tura to be “friend”, reject it. It ..."

By Pet Melliza/The Beekeeper An item struck me in the morning program of RMN Iloilo  radio last April 25: a couple gave   birth to quartet. The mother, 17, is jobless, the father, 18, earns by helping   an uncle make earthen pots and hawk them. The infants, all boys, are premature   and need to be incubated for two months. And one is ill. RMN seized that opportunity to raise funds to support the couple and their babies. Four   relatives are with them, in other words, four are jobless for the duration of   their stay in Iloilo as they take turns watching their kin. RMN ’s fund raising   campaign (which that morning drew pledges reaching five-digit amount) must also   consider the four bantays. Public succor is needed that instant: the couple and their four infants have   nothing and nobody to turn to, not even the church which is the most rabid   defender of idiots out to fill the earth with more idiots. The couple are in their t...

UI-PHINMA's decision to deny its nursing students graduation questioned by King Araneta (center) and Marivic Pastolero (right),   graduating nursing students. On the left is Peter Jimenea, columnist and host of the TV talk show Kape kag Isyu.   By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper It screws students. The University of Iloilo (UI)-PHINMA  bilked each of 699 senior nursing students P15,000 for the “comprehensive enhancement program” (CEP)  and  P1,000 for the “emergency nursing seminar” (ENS). Both are useless. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) ruled against the “registration fee”, later renamed CEP. Students call that “comprehensive examination” or “compre”. The CEP, capping with the controversial “compre”, ignited protests from students who sought the CHED which in turn declared it neither an approved curriculum nor requisite for graduation. Three hundred twenty-five of the 699 senior nursing stude...

Hole of Justice: Grand Plan at the Kingdom of the River (21) : "By Peter G. Jimenea/ Hole of Justice Sin, repentance and redemption popped into my head the past Semana Santa. So does peace and reconcili..."

SIMPLY BUSINESS: BEWARE OF JATROPHA PODAGRICA : " Some People Think It's KOREAN GINSENG! A plant booth at the Iloilo Provincial Captiol ground is displaying potted jatropha pudagrica whi..."

Kape kag Isyu talk show takes cudgel for graduating nursing students of UI-PHINMA (L-R: Larry Locara, this writer, Dwight Trasadas, Peter Jimenea, resource person Darwin Joemel Papa, and Neonita gobuyan. ICER head Darwin Joemel Papa denies charging UI-PHINMA students training fees. "We train people for free," he says. One with UI-PHINMA nursing students. This writer scores UI-PHINMA for oppressing its students. Beside him is retired government jounalis Neonita Gobuyan. T he University of Iloilo – PHINMA (UI-PHINMA) now reaps what it has sowed. “Karma” is how Kape kag Isyu host Peter Jimenea says of the sharp drop in the summer enrolment of UI – PHINMA. For his co-host Dwight Trasadas, it’s “estafa” because UI-PHINMA bilked its graduating nursing students, all 699 of them, P15,000 each to pay the “registration fee” later renamed “comprehensive review program” which it made compulsory, and later, to the shock of students, a requisite to graduation. Co-host ...

UI-PHINMA's decision to deny its nursing students graduation questioned by King Araneta (center) and Marivic Pastolero (right), graduating nursing students. On the left is host Peter Jimenea.   ILOILO CITY, PHILIPPINES (April 16, 2011)  -- H oly Week evokes "Calvary", suffering and humanity's redemption singlehandedly done by one man, the Carpenter from Nazareth, named Isa, Isaiah, Iesu, Jesus or what have you, who is written in the New Testament as the Christ. In this  morning episode of "Kape kag Isyu" , where yours truly is a co-panelist, host Peter Jimenea associated "Calvary" and "Semana Santa" (Holy Week) to the plight of graduating nursing students of the University of Iloilo - PHINMA. UI-PHINMA refuses to graduate 325 nursing students for their failure to pass the "Comprehensive Enhancement Program" (CEP), the long term for review and comprehensive test. The CEP is not sanctioned by the Commission on Higher E...

Hole of Justice: Grand Plan at the Kingdom by the River (20) : "BY PETER G. JIMENEA, HOLE OF JUSTICE This space is correct when it warned Ma’am Malou not to let down his guard yet even though King Tura ha..."

BY PET MELLIZA/ The Beekeeper Iloilo City Mayor Jedd Patrick Mabilog acted like a five-year throwing tantrums; his crusade to collect 100,000 signatures to abolish the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) is just like that – a crude antic of a spurned child. He and his cabal want the MIWD privatized, a plot spun 10 years ago yet when Engr. Adrian Moncada was named director by then Mayor Jerry Treñas. Credit for that belongs to Moncada and his likeminded comrades in the directorate who want to bring the water district down to justify its privatization. Last year, the knife sank deeper as two MIWD directors Moncada and Celso Javelosa, comebacking Sen. Franklin Drilon, incoming Rep. Jerry Treñas, and incoming Mayor Mabilog, met in Manila, on the privatization of the MIWD. One big name emerging as “investor” at the meeting was Rogelio Florete. The past 10 years, MIWD limped like a cancer-stricken patient, too sick to maintain its pipelines; the directors want that so to render it ineffic...

BY PET MELLIZA/ The Beekeeper ST.PAUL NOVITIATE, SAN FERNANDO, PAMPANGA (April 10) – (I am writing this piece in this formation house of the Slociety of St. Paul where a younger sibling happens to be the father superior.) I took high school and first year college at the St. Paul Seminary, Makati, then a town of Rizal. I did  not make it to the novitiate, a phase for those who already finished college and the stage of religious life where one decides whether to go for priesthood or lay brotherhood. The trees at the novitiate makes it ideal to recharge energy, and it’s a timely reprieve from the national convention of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) at Subic, April 7 – 9. I will write a lengthier commentary on the gathering of lawyers in the Philippines, an opportunity for them for bonding which turned out to be an ordeal to fit themselves into a tight schedule of learning from MCLE lectures, a unique experience of being treated like five-year olds made to listen, ins...

By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper A colleague at the Iloilo Capitol, Hector Velez, vouches it was papaya that   cured his two daughters. They have been stricken two years ago with recurring   high fever and he was already determined to rush them to the hospital the next   dawn.   He thought of papaya to relieve them from the pain for the night: he crushed its   leaves, from his backyard at Januiay, Iloilo, then extracted the sap. His sick   daughters took two tables spoon of extract each. The next morning, while   preparing to go to the hospital, he chanced upon the two girls seated at the   sala watching TV. He ordered them to go back to the bedroom but the two replied   they already felt good. That was it, they recovered completely. Another friend, Tony Dimavivas of Pavia, Iloilo, had a niece confined to the   hospital for dengue hemorrhagic fever. Alex Centena called him up to visit him   in Calinog, Iloilo and taugh...

By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper The Iloilo City government’s noises to rid Iloilo River of illegal structures are all huff and bluster, at least in the unique case of Barbeque Park, owned by Kagawad Edward Yee. City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog, with his hesitancy, merely allows Yee to blast fire crackers right at his face. Mabilog’s vow to clean up the river is just as empty as the fireworks that his predecessor now Rep. Jerry Treñas lighted at the Western Visayas Medical Center (WVMC) during the campaign stretch of the May 2010 elections to “inaugurate” the “city hospital” inside the compound of the WVMC. The “inauguration” consisted of Mr. Treñas et al unveiling a billboard that portrayed the conceptual design of the future health facility that, to date remains a fantasia. Mabilog vouches time and again that the body of water, actually an arm of the sea, will be cleared of all intruders along its foreshores, notably the restaurant that the local legislator owns. He set the deadline...