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Friday, January 31, 2025

Rural Update

Rural Update: The river ferry

BY JOHNNY NOVERA WHILE in Metro Manila, we decided to take advantage of our free time Tuesday last week to experience the River Ferry on the Pasig River. The ferry service was introduced recently under...

Rural Update: How soon is ‘soon’?

BY JOHNNY NOVERA ON November 18, 2014 or 10 days after super typhoon “Yolanda” brought devastation to the island province of Leyte, we wrote an article with the title, The Banks in...

Rural Update: Lawmakers and bankers

BY JOHNNY NOVERA WE wrote last week an item in our column (“Entry of foreigners in PH”), expressing our national security concern for House Bill No. 3984, approved by the Lower House allowing the entry of foreign...

Rural Update: Entry of foreigners in PH

BY JOHNNY NOVERA TWO major policy moves approved by our government will bring into the country unrestricted entry of foreigners. Will the new policies be good for us? They are: First, welcoming US troops to have wider access to Philippine...

Rural Update: Shift NAIA landings to Iloilo urgent

BY JOHNNY NOVERA LAST week, we wrote in our column (Re-direct Int’l Flights...) of the heavy air traffic and dangerous situation of landings and takeoffs at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) such that even the old Terminal IV...

Rural Update: Re-direct int’l flights to Iloilo or Negros airports?

BY JOHNNY NOVERA IT is interesting to read  the Vision Statement of the Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA), saying that ”by 2016, it will be the leading organization...

Rural Update: Where are the tiles from Hibao-an?

BY JOHNNY NOVERA WE are impressed with the construction of a walking park on the whole length of the expanded Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. Avenue in Iloilo City, otherwise known as the Diversion Road. When...