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Buck-passing no good for PECO

WHAT does the disenfranchised Panay Electric Co. (PECO) hope to gain by constantly deprecating MORE Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power) over power outages...

Life or livelihood?

“MONEY or life?” That is the question one often hears in a robbery movie, where the life of the would-be victim lies in the hands...

The power ‘war’ is definitely over

“IT HURTS to say goodbye,” so an old song laments. It could be true for Panay Electric Co. (PECO). But it should be sport...

Discrimination in the time of COVID-19

THE THING is comparable to a microscopic David sling-shooting millions of giant Goliaths dead. It’s an invader that has overturned the norms of human behavior....

Let PECO and MORE Power conciliate

AMID the uncertainty effected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, it irks us power consumers in Iloilo City that Panay Electric Co. (PECO) could not...

Unique week

THE RECENT commemoration of Holy Week seemed to have been “overthrown” by our observance of the “community quarantine” that requires us to stay at home 24/7...

Defense against coronavirus

DOCTORS say that until a vaccine or cure is made available, our only chance against the dreaded coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a “strong immune system”. I...

The high cost of being ‘pasaway’

RETURNING presidential spokesman Harry Roque must have thought of it as the best way to prove that he is a better “echo” of the master than...

How Taiwan knocked down coronavirus

TWO news items caught my attention yesterday. The first was about a team of 12 doctors from mainland China visiting hospitals in Manila. They recommended that...

Trying hard to be positive, post-COVID

IT’S NOT always good to be “positive,” as in COVID 19-positive that refers to a human being afflicted with coronavirus disease (COVID-19). As of yesterday, the World...