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ILOILO CITY -  Bio-fertilizer gives life to farms without urea, tests in Iloilo Province show. Before, Iloilo farmers have to navigate through the delicate balance of soaring urea prices and lost profits as prices of urea fertilizer  shot passed the ceiling since last year. Its supply dropped after the Russo-Ukraine war broke out in February 2022. Though it went down from P3,500 to P1,500 per bag today, its present cost is still higher than before the war at P800 per bag. "Demonstration farms" in Iloilo Province are proving that farm production are bouncing back without urea, Geron Magbanua, senior agriculturist at the provincial agriculture office (PAO) said.  Farmers cooperating with the government research which in turn does so in collaboration with a private comjpany producing fertilizer, "are encouraged by the results of the validation tests"  in Passi City, New Lucena, Dingle, Tigbauan and Oton towns, added Magbanua. He was designated "validator" by ...

This photo is not mine. Thanks to the uploader. This was the catholic church of Oton, Iloilo before Lady Caycay. Lady Caycay, the tremblor with 8 plus intensity and the only one with a name world wide, crumpled it like a cardboard killing at least one. That was January 1948. The tremblor's epicenter, Hantik, Antique, belonged to the West Panay Fault, a network that wounds through southern Iloilo, Capiz and Aklan, that is only 10 km from the mega dam in Calinog, Iloilo. Our church in Igbaras, Iloilo reputedly the biggest in Iloilo, crumbled completely. The replacement structure which is big enough, can comfortably fit into it. The church of Panay, Capiz was also damaged: its bell fell and sustained a crack (the biggest bell in Asia). The watch tower cum belfry of Jaro Cathedral, Iloilo City, half of it fell to the ground. (It's about the only belfry in the world detached from the church 100 meters away because it was intended foremostly to alert the Guardia Civil of pirates snea...

Stupidity knows no bound Ordinary drivers know this simple principle; Iloilo city hall people don't. The latter are supposed to know but they are proving today right before our very eyes how true the saying is that "ignorance is intentional".  Ignorance doesn't happen by accident; it is intended as what Iloilo City Hall does by its intransifence to follow national law and policy.  The officials of Iloilo City, particularly, the "public safety and traffice management office" (PSTMO) have read and heard, seen even, that seizing drivers' licenses for violations collides with national law and policy. No less than the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are one in declaring that issuing citation tickets suffices for apprehending traffic violators. Seizing the drivers' licenses of violators is illegal as that would place the apprehended drivers liable for "driving...

 GUIMARAS, an island province off eastern Panay Island may not be rich but it’s not broke either. It’s baffling though how the province that rightly boasts of its mangoes, cashew and countless resorts readily groveled down to the cheap enticement of a business corporation, one that produces alcoholic beverages, to erect on one of its promontories a structure ala Hollywood bearing the letters that spells the island’s name. First off: it’s good but not necessary, even if the “G-U-I-M-A-R-A-S” is facing the Iloilo Straight where inter-island and ocean faring vessels navigate or berth.  On board those ships are travelers to begin with: this means they already know or, if they didn’t, they are surrounded be opportunities like fellow crew or passengers, to identify the island. Wonder if Gov, Rahman Nava really celebrated at the installation of a giant visual which de facto turned his  island into a cheap victim of Lucio Tan’s advertisement gimmick. That harkens us back several ...

Is Globe Telecom retrogressing? In this age of the AI, bots already rival humans in the field of journalism and engineering. But Globe’s reliance on bots is a retrogression, judging from the “intelligence” of its brand of “AI” which rivals that emanating from the dense cranium of Mocha Uson. Globe is only driven by greed for profits where public service is the least of its concerns. It has been downsizing since the Covid-19 pandemic. Before, seeking for immediate response to problems like faltering landline and internet connections merited fast response. Globe then had its offices in Gaisano City, SM Delgado, Robinson’s and SM City. Your Wi-Fi is slow or dead at that time? Go to any of the above offices and warm Human bodies would meet you and in one day, its crew would call to query or arrive at the scene to do the works. Today, Globe Telecom which must have enjoy the luck of being cooled by the rotating tail of Belzeebub if not Lucifer, requires you to pass through the eye of the nee...

YRONG-YRONG - Datu Saripada Agwak is head over heels again waxing pathetically at the giant strides the Iloilo International Airport would make if that prime jewel goes to private hands.  There are two conglomerates, one of which is Villar’s, eyeing to privatize it. At present, the airport, dubbed the prettiest outside Metro Manila, is publicly owned. Datu Agwak need not look far at the effects of that animal called privatization.  Government privatized the water utility in Manila: the net effect is water no longer fit for consumption and at heftier price at that. Government privatized the National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR) and Petron: what we got is electricity and fuel prices shooting beyond outer space. In Yrong-Yrong, the Metro Iloilo Water District (MIWD) decided to privatize itself, the better word is de-fanged by letting the pilfered wealth of bloody dictator Soeharto in, some P2 billion of it, and let the distribution and billing power on the lap of the new animal ca...

    Mayor Jerry Treñas and his caboodle in the mass disinformation industry are yelping accolades and jumping in glee at nothing but how good, bright and promising the fates of the Iloilo Terminal Market and Iloilo Central Market would be under his watch. Better still, miswatch.      "Public-Private Partnership" kuno; "renovation" kuno, "progress" pa gid, lapdogs in the  mainstream mass disinformation industry oogle.      What they're deliberately hiding is the obvious, that the deal is nothing but a "lease contract", a heavily lopsided one, that hands over for a song two prime real estate properties of Iloilo City taxpayers to SM Holdings, owner of the most number and biggest of malls in the Philippines.      It's neither PPP nor renovation but a broad daylight robbery where Treñas surrenders to SM the ownership of the "Central" and "Super" to SM for 50 years, renewable thereafter at SM's caprice.      By merely...

 ILOILO CITY — Saturday night, preparatory to the Resurrection, Pinoys perform rituals consisting of removal of signs of sorrow  inside churches — of purple cloths draping statues  including the Crucified One. There is no mass yet as this celebration is reserved for the following day after the official time of the Resurrection comes. For the time being, the minister blesses essentials used at home like water, salt and oil and seeds  that worshippers bring —rice, corn, beans, fruit trees and what-not.  All vehicles lined up on the street are blessed, streets to be more precise as the volume of vehicles rose every hour — either public or private carriers. (In this regard, to cut short the time spent on blessing the vehicles with engines on, the officiating priests asks his lay ministers to assist in spreading the blessings,  Easter, our tradition tells us, ushers-in not only the Resurrected One but the whole new life itself — the seeds for abundant harvests a...