"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."
--Hubert H. Humphrey
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- I will bet my last centavo.
Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog will wrap up the political "championship" after the smoke has been cleared.
The latest Ombudsman verdict dismissing him "for failing to explain an increase in his wealth of nearly P9 million within a year" could not be considered yet as a KO defeat.
By Robbie Pangilinan
Tacloban City Mayor Cristina Gonzales Romualdez led the 73rd commemoration of the Leyte Gulf Landing on October 20.
Veterans of the Second World War joined the celebration, as well as Presidential Adviser on Military Affairs, retired General Arthur Tabaquero, and celebrity guest Janella Salvador.
"In war, truth is the first casualty."
--AESCHYLUS
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Was the 911 call necessary?
When feuding officials of the Philippine Independence Day Parade, Inc. (PIDCI) could not agree on who should be hustled off and who should remain in the polling place, there was no need to call the cops and interrupt the proceedings.
By supporting businesses to make it “BIG in MUNTInlupa” and exemplifying ease in doing business locally, the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry has hailed Muntinlupa City as the 2017 Most Business Friendly Local Government Unit for Level 1 Category.
PCCI lauded other winning cities, provinces, and municipalities with outstanding programs and policies that create an environment conducive to business during the 43rd Philippine Business Conference at the Manila Hotel last Oct. 19.
"A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me."
--George III of the United Kingdom
By Alex P. Vidal
NEW YORK CITY -- Who is the Judas Escariot of Iloilo City in the Philippines?
This question has been buzzing ever since the erratic President Rodrigo R. Duterte placed both Iloilo City and Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog figuratively in the shooting range for being "the most shabulized city" and "narco-politician" respectively.
By Robbie Pangilinan
Tacloban City Mayor Cristina Gonzales Romualdez expressed the city government’s gratitude to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the support it has extended to the city since it was hit and devastated by typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
American mythology, insofar as it’s connected to the criminal, is steeped in desperadoes getting away from the crime scene just as fast as they got to it. From Bonnie and Clyde’s bullet-ridden Ford to Ted Bundy’s VW, getaway drivers to getaway drives, white Broncos and all, the successful crime comes with not getting caught, if you’re a criminal.
