Pet Melliza

Iloilo City (January 31, 2017) Homeowners of Parc Regency, a subdivision in Pavia, Iloilo are victims of the combined "budol-budol" and "salisi" gangs, actually company officials disguised as officers of a bogus homeowners’ association. Buyers started residing there in 2011 and more are still coming to occupy over 3,000 plus units. They are all up in arms because to date, the subdivision has no connection to the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD), telephone land lines and cable TV. The basic amenities of modern urban life is yet to reach this subdivision. MIWD cannot set up its pipes inside Parc Regency. The subdivision sells homeowners coliform-contaminated water, at P35 per cubic meter, about twice the rate charged by government-owned MIWD for residential units. Homeowners have to buy drinking water outside. What riled more the residents though is that a cabal of Parc Regency officials usurped the functions of the home owners association that ch...

NPA guerillas doing the "koreo" (choreography of a red song) Guerillas in attention as the sound system plays the "Internationale" SOMEWHERE IN CAPIZ PROVINCE -- Yes to peace talks, no to continued ceasefire. That’s the message Ka Mara, secretary of the political department of the Igabon Platon of the New People’s Army (NPA) declared at the “peace assembly”, a gathering that the Central Front - Panay of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) convened to celebrate its 48 th  anniversary December 26. Musical skit: guerillas depict an event during the early '70s when they puinished an abusive soldier of the now defunct Philippine Constabulary Some 500 people registered at the peace assembly, minus the children who were not listed, which was marked by speeches and cultural presentations by a platoon of NPA guerillas. Ka Mara: yes to peace talks, no to continued ceasefire, unless Duterte makes good his campaign pr...

ICLAJODA president Boyet Parcon ILOILO CITY - Transport leaders assail the two regional offices of the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) in Western Visayas or Region VI for not heeding the call of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte to simplify procedures or reduce red tape in order cut waiting time and costs. The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) and Land Transportation Office (LTO) both in this city, merely aggravated the woes of public transport operators and drivers, heaves Boyet Parcon, president of the Iloilo City Loop Alliances of Jeepney Operators’ and Drivers’ Associations (ICLAJODA). “They make procedures harder two ways: first by jacking up fees and second, by adding requirements that lengthens waiting time,” adds Alrey Alvarado, ICLAJODA vice president. This writer interviewed the two transport leaders Jan. 9, 2017 at “Kape kag Isyu”, a TV talk show which he co-hosts along with Peter Jimenea. President Rodrigo Dute...