By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper A post early dawn of May 30 in cyberspace social medium has former Iloilo provincial administrator, now columnist Manuel Mejorada, hitting the Ombudsman for sitting on his graft suit against Rep. Augusto Syjuco (Lakas, Iloilo, 2nd district). He slapped Syjuco the complaint in 2004, more known now as “cellphone scam”. Here, […]

By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper Negros Oriental is the only province in the Philippines to have enacted an ordinance prohibiting humanitarian services to areas of armed conflict between the Philippine government and rebels. Stated otherwise, that Central Visayas province licenses harassments of members of fact-finding and relief missions to far far-flung villages where civilians are […]

By Pet S. Melliza Four persons, including a police officer, died; four others were injured in a shootout in Jaro district, Iloilo City during the “bikini open”, an activity lined-up in its annual fiesta celebration. That’s not an isolated case in the country where fiestas are celebrated in the name of angels and saints, god […]

BY PET MELLIZA/ THE BEEKEEPER Something’s amiss with the so-called “1st Philippine International River Summit” May 30 – June 1.  Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog and Rep. Jerry Trenas erected billboards congratulating themselves after a shadowy international body named LivCom picked Iloilo City in 2010 an “awardee”,  one of the most “livable communities”  because of an imaginary […]

By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper A “people’s terminal” will rise for jeepneys and buses of southern Iloilo similar to that of Pavia town. Southern Iloilo drivers and operators have no choice. Iloilo City has become hostile ground. The local government and bogus transport leaders blame them for traffic congestion and diminishing income of city loop […]

BY PET MELLIZA   Ask today’s kids if they knew of the other meaning of “panday” and chances are, they have only one in memory, the carpenter. They don’t know that the term also refers to blacksmith, the one which heats iron or steel into a fiery mass and hammers it to shape – knife, […]

By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper     Facts are getting clearer that the Ombudsman-Visayas handpicked a quack investigator, Roderick Blazo, to probe the so-called “ghost” road rehabilitation project in Igbaras, Iloilo. He crumbled to pieces on his own weight April 23 at the Sandiganbayan hearing. His own admissions showed he rigged his findings.   Virginia […]

By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper Residents of Brgy. Block 22 PHHC, Mandurriao, Iloilo City have only curses for the Iloilo City Engineer’s Office for the stench emitted by their wells, deep wells, to be more precise. Water, or the loss of it, could spark wars in other countries. City Hall is just lucky that Block […]

BY PET MELLIZA/ THE BEEKEEPER It is hereby declared the policy of the State to improve the quality and delivery of health care services to the Filipino people through the development of traditional and alternative health care and its integration into the national health care delivery system.   It shall also be the policy of […]

By Pet Melliza/ The Beekeeper Rains drenched Iloilo last March 30, 2012, ironically, the period we considered as the onset of the dry and hot season. Rice farmers might welcome the rains but other sectors in agriculture, even non-farmers, might have different reaction. The mango farmers of southern and central Iloilo and Guimaras, and producers […]