Pet Melliza

Canadian Embassy awards new McLuhan Fellow

The outcome of the forthcoming public bidding on the P8-million uniform allowance of provincial employees for FY 2011, is already a goregone conclusion. The public bidding is "lutong makaw", rigged, rigged, rigged. Period. Donya Buding aka Duksuli, a BAC (bids and awards committee)  member, is victorious in her lobby in having her favorite Manila-based "sastre" (tailoring shop) clinch the contract. Tomorrow, August 1, the BAC will convene to vote for or against the whims of Duksuli. The BAC already set the specifications for the uniforms but Duksuli insists on changing them to suit the design of her favorite contractor. That's "Reporma kag Pag-bag-o". Salamat, Lord!

By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper NATO and US planes pulverize civilian centers in Libya not because the aggressors want to protect its citizens from Muammar Quadhafi and not because they want  to install democracy in Libya. War descends on Libya and the Libyan people pay heavily for that because of oil and water. Blood is shedding because the aggressors want to stop the unfolding miracle in that North African country.  The miracle. Libya is one of the most arid countries in the world with average rainfall of one inch concentrated in only five percent of its land area but it is the greenest, at least in the Middle East – North Africa (MENA) Region. Libya’s sand turns into soil, its desert into farms producing grains, firs, grapes, olives, almonds and pears, among others (Sarah A. Topo, “Great Man-Made River Project”). It’s not actually a miracle but human genius that wrought about these developments not even advanced ...

The Iloilo River: cleaner now than before but is still the Philippines' biggest septic tank next to Pasig River. More than 300 estblishments, aside from private residences, directly dispose their liquid wastes into the river sans treatment. The establishments include government buildings which have no septic tanks. Their toilets empty directly to the river. Kape kag Isyu/ With Nilo Sason and Kgd. Jeffrey Ganzon  Edit this entry Posted on July 30, 2011  by  petmelliza 0   Rate This Since 2001, a group of volunteers collected over 300 metric tons of flotsam at the Iloilo River.  Sason in black cap and khaki uniform: pure voluntarism “We did it on our own,” recalls Nilo Sason, a businessman holding the rank in the Philippine Navy Reserve Command as commander. His group, the 6th Philippine Navy Auxiliary, in two or three motorized outriggers, cruises the Iloilo River from its mouth upstream for the single purpose of collecting flotsam – plastic wrappers an...

BY JEZZA NEPOMOCENO Panay News/ July 28, 2011 ILOILO – Endorsing to the Office of the Ombudsman the Commission on Audit (COA) report on the disallowances incurred during the administration of then Gov. Niel Tupas Sr. cannot be considered an accomplishment, said Sangguniang Panlalawigan member Gerardo Flores. Flores was reacting to the State of the Province Address (SOPA) of Gov. Arthur Defensor Sr. that, among others, cited the COA report in his administration’s drive to cleanse the provincial government of corruption. “To say that alleged wrongdoers in the past administration were endorsed for prosecution is not an accomplishment,” Flores said in his privilege speech during the Provincial Board session yesterday. Defensor delivered his SOPA on July 20. “This is rather a covert strategy to convince the public that previous administration was crooked and deserves all forms of mercilessness,” Flores said. “Let us avoid turning on the wang-wang for the glory that is not ours. Bes...

By Pet Melliza/ the Beekeeper Somebody named Gloria slumped in her seat last July 25 when someone called P-Noy named Conchita Carpio-Morales, a retired Supreme Court justice, the next   Ombudsman, during P-Noy’s state-of-the-nation address (SONA). Gloria was rushed to the hospital.  Carpio-Morales replaces Merceditas Gutierrez who resigned last April after being  besieged by public opinion and tormented by a looming trial at the Senate  sitting as impeachment court. P-Noy promises that the next Ombudsman will perform according to his battlecry  of plodding the “straight path” (matuwid na landas): Ombudsman Carpio-Morales  will run after crooks in government, particularly Gloria and company who to date  remain untouchables because Ombudsman Gutierrez shielded them.   The clean up will be tedious and  we join the new Ombudsman in praying that she  will live up to public expectations. Ombudsman Carpio-Morales must co...

  BY PET MELLIZA/ THE BEEKEEPER Last Saturday(July 23), Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog was guest at Kape kag Isyu hosted by Peter Jimenea. Atty. Dwight Trasadas, Larry Locara, Joel Estuche and Nitz Gobuyan were co-panelists. He enumerated a lot of projects that are being implemented and many more are in the pipeline. Incidentally, not all of these programs have been brought to public attention as Mayor Jed’s political spinners appear to be more interested in answering tit-for-tat the tirades of critics to the point of proffering ludicrous arguments. One spin master of his, for instance, scores the critics of Mayor Jed as “destabilizers” while another one, a businessman at that, warns that too much criticisms would scare away investors. We don’t know how could a legitimate taxpayer “destablize” local governance by exposing shenanigans in official service. The spinner is referring to Rommel Ynion, source of the sharpest tirades on Mayor Jed. The main issue that Ynion hurls at May...

While a certain PNoy was delivering his SONA this afternoon which seems to describe another country being ruled by the devil, a certain Gloria and her alipores, some 3,500 protesters from the workers, peasants, students, women and government employees, marched the streets and rallied at the Capitol Ground, Iloilo City to deliver their own SONA which seems to describe more accurately the Philippine reality. Military abuses and human rights violations are still rampant. Life is still harsh. Jobs are scarce and salaries below starvation wages.  The Philippines still remains a semi-colony of the US and its people grovelling in poverty. That is happening because this certain PNoy is following the "tuwad na landas" instead of "tuwid" (Tagalog for "straight"). "Tuwad" in both Hiligaynon and Kinaray-a means crouching position with one's butt up high.