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Quo vadis, Iloilo?

OUR CITY is undergoing a massive infrastructure makeup and rapid economic pace – so fast, we hardly know what’s going on and can’t keep up with...

The price of progress

SEVERAL years back, I attended a CB seminar on bank management and the resource person, who likewise conducted periodic audits of banking institutions, was so impressed...

‘Don’t dengue’

DENGUE is no longer a scare; it has become an urban epidemic; stacking hospitals with patients beyond full capacity and driving the stricken to desperation and...

Dilemma

THE DISPUTE between Panay Electric Co. (PECO) and More Electric and Power Corp. (MORE Power), as expected, has turned into hostile and interesting complications.  Naturally, because of...

No room

ILOILO City is in dire need of MORE hospitals. The third week of June saw an abnormally large spate of patients suffering numerous ailments and seeking...

Collision course

SO MUCH an outcry is raised in the land relating to the sinking of a Filipino fishing boat upon collision with a Chinese vessel. And the...

New faces

THE RUCKUS from the past mad scramble for the mid-term elections has not yet died down. Losers, still smarting not only from defeat but most important from...

New faces

THE RUCKUS from the past mad scramble for the midterm elections has not yet died down. Losers, still smarting not only from defeat but most...

Trumping

OUR COUNTRY is practically tied-up, body and soul, to whatever Fate befalls the great United States. Any untoward happening there has a ripple effect...

Interesting banks

It should be understood as a main premise: that all banks and financing institutions are under the supervision and administration of the Central Bank...