Rural Update

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Let us move on! THE SUPREME Court’s decision allowing the transfer of the embalmed remains of former president Ferdinand Marcos from its mausoleum in...

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Forms of democracy WE ARE pleased to quote below an e-mail received from one, Dick Harbers (dharbers@hotmail.com), with the title “Forms of Democracy”...

BY JOHNNY NOVERA The parliamentary system of government THIS IS a continuation of the subject of our column last week on the parliamentary system of government that our President and his allies in the current Congress  are vigorouslypushingfor approval. Democracy is spreading throughout the world. However, according to...

BY JOHNNY NOVERA Welcome home to Region 6… STARTING this month, all of us in Panay and Guimaras should happily welcome back to Region 6 the city of Bacolod and the province of...

BY JOHNNY NOVERA New island region: Back to square one? WE HAVE learned that the new Negros Island Region (NIR) failed to have a separate budget...

BY JOHNNY NOVERA A permanent solution to ‘endo’ ONE election promise of the Duterte administration is to end the so-called “endo” scheme or labor contractualization, a...

BY JOHNNY NOVERA THERE was a news report a few days ago that the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chaired by Sen. Richard Gordon is calling...

BY JOHNNY NOVERA LAST week we wrote about the idea for Iloilo to send a mission to Metro Manila and invite corporate groups there to...

BY JOHNNY NOVERA LAST week, we asked in our column, “Is Iloilo ready for Asean?” We hope that the different business organizations in our city will...

BY JOHNNY NOVERA ON July 29, 2014, we wrote of the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Summit ministerial meetings to be held in Iloilo City in...