A total of 55 private lying-In clinics out of 80-plus registered and located in the city were recognized by the Quezon City Government, through the Quezon City Health Department, with a Seal of Excellence Award for being fully compliant to the standards of the Department of Health and the local government requirements for health facilities rendering services for maternal and child health.
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Important warning to all feeble candidates
"If you can't stand the heat in the dressing room, get out of the kitchen."
--Terry Venables
By Alex P. Vidal
AS local candidates prepare for a full-court press campaign sortie in the May elections, the searing heat brought by El Nino phenomenon threatens to cause some of them a terrible inconvenience, especially those with a bad history in hypertension and other physical symptoms brought by so much heat exposure.
Duterte ‘ignores’ Dinagyang invitation
“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Ilonggos shouldn’t consider it as a big deal that President Rodrigo R. Duterte “ignored” Iloilo City Hall’s invitation to grace the just-concluded Dinagyang Festival in Iloilo City in the Philippines.
Ynion to Mayor Joe III: IPC building will be our legacy
“I don't fight for the money. I fight for my legacy. I fight for history. I fight for my people.”
--Khabib Nurmagomedov
By Alex P. Vidal
LIKE Octavius and Mark Antony, the relationship between Iloilo City Mayor Jose “Joe III” Espinosa III and Iloilo Press Club (IPC) President Rommel Ynion is cool and professional.
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By Alex P. Vidal
LIKE Octavius and Mark Antony, the relationship between Iloilo City Mayor Jose “Joe III” Espinosa III and Iloilo Press Club (IPC) President Rommel Ynion is cool and professional.
Obet Armada ‘missed’ the Comelec deadline
“Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” -- Drake
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Former Iloilo Vice Governor Roberto “Obet” Armada arrived in the Philippines on November 29, 2018 night from a one-month “spiritual journey” in the United States, thus he wasn’t able to “beat the deadline” for the last day of substitution and withdrawal set by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) for the May 2019 elections.
Where the hell is Raul Jr?
"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
--Epictetus
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- It looks like the widow of the late justice secretary Raul M. Gonzalez Sr. will have to comb Iloilo City's 180 barangays alone by her lonesome self to woo the Ilonggos' votes when the campaign for the local positions in the May Philippine elections officially begins.
Tacloban leads Eastern Visayas landmark meeting
By Robbie Pangilinan
Regional Development Council chairperson Tacloban City Mayor Cristina Gonzalez-Romualdez leads the country’s first ever joint meeting of three regional bodies to tackle issues of economic development, peace and order, and disaster resiliency.