Tag: Iloilo Opinion news

THE tirades of President Rodrigo Duterte against the Catholic Church, the Pope, the bishops and priests are not new. There is basis for the statement of a bishop that he is more worried about the President than he is about the Church. That is a double-edged statement but that also reflects the high sense of […]

EXCITING development is brewing in the political landscape and it has nothing to do with the coming local and national elections. The pieces on the board are moving and it is interesting to see how this political chess game will end. In the last two weeks of 2018, the nation was entertained with the odd […]

“Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.” – Joe Frazier NEW YORK CITY – At 40, Manny Pacquiao is one of the only few world boxing champions in history to fight a younger opponent as a defending champion. He is about […]

Email: roycimagala@gmail.com WE need to see to it that our observance of our human laws is not guided only by our human understanding of these laws nor by the many human values that we can aspire and pursue. Our observance of our laws should not be guided by our sense of justice alone. While these […]

LAST Sunday I delivered a three-hour lecture in Hinobaan on one of the most important events in the liberation of the Philippines from the Japanese in World War II – the arrival of a party of Filipino intelligence operatives from Australia just before dawn of January 14, 1943 at Catmon Bay in that southernmost town […]

“The art of communication is the language of leadership.” – James Humes NEW YORK CITY – Because most of them were preoccupied and concerned more with their reelection and political ambitions in the May 2019 elections, some Iloilo City aldermen opted to play deaf and mute when the raging furor over the unpopular renaming by […]

By: Limuel S. Celebria THE lights will metaphorically dim on Iloilo City today as Panay Electric Company Inc.’s (PECO) franchise to provide electric power to urbanized Ilonggos expired as of midnight (00:01 am January 19, 2019). Thus ended a 95-year relationship between PECO and Iloilo City, a relationship rendered rocky and uncertain by consumer complaints and […]

THIS, of course, will be a continuing, endless task. We first of all should be most thankful that in spite of the many secularizing factors affecting the world today in general, we in our country still manage to have a very moving popular piety or the showing of our faith, devotion and religion in a […]

WRITING about Bacolod’s erratic and oftentimes chaotic traffic situation seems superfluous because it has become so prevalent and apparently beyond solution talking about it only raises blood pressure a notch higher. But this must be written for two reasons: perhaps the city officials think all is fine and dandy and we accept it; secondly to […]

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. NEW YORK CITY – Was it a populist rant? Or a brotherly malasakit (deep concern) from a retired police official turned lawmaker tormented by the humiliation suffered by a “promdi” cop? Pangasinan Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil earned pogi points from his former colleagues […]

By: Reyshimar Arguelles WHAT I really like about former journalist and now Foreign Secretary Teddy Boy Locsin Jr. is his skill at commentary. It’s as if the man grew up already roasting people with his penchant for hyperbole and analogy. In addition, this is one dude you really don’t want to mess with, considering his […]

By: Lance Patrick Enad HOLY DAYS, have always been, at least on paper, sacred times. In these holy times, anything that could be a distraction from the worship of God is to be avoided –hence we abstain from work (although with exceptions) on Sundays so that we can spend the day for God, with our families, […]