Movement pushing Treñas to run for Congress gaining ground

May Joven-Almacen

“Nobody… Nobody… but Treñas for Congressman,” sang a group of persons wanting the incumbent city mayor, Jerry P. Treñas, to run for a congressional seat rather than for vice-mayor this coming May 2010 elections.

The song was patterned from the popular dance tune “Nobody but you” by the South Korean group Wonder Girls.

Tubungan enters NLA hall of fame

Wins Outstanding LGU on Literacy Award for 4th consecutive year

From a once indistinctive town, the municipality of Tubungan in the first congressional district of Iloilo is now the toast of the town at the National Literacy Awards (NLA) last September 30, 2009.

John Javier

A boy touches a colorful mask being sold in downtown Bacolod City. This year’s MassKara Festival officially opens today and will culminate on October 18.

Farmers’ Coop Bank launched in Passi

A farmers’ cooperative bank was recently launched in Passi City, the first of its kind in the region. It is directly undertaken by the Mapili Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Multi – Purpose Cooperative (MARBEMCO) located in San Enrique, Iloilo

ILOILO NEWS

PF of government salaried physicians

Professional fees (PF) paid by PhilHealth for salaried physicians in government or private training hospitals are pooled for hospital personnel. It has been a policy that the services of the accredited medical practitioners are paid even though they are employed by the government.

P82M 4Ps cash aid benefits 16T WV families

Cash grants amounting to P82.2 million have been handed out to 16,910 household-beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in the provinces of Antique, Iloilo and Aklan in Western Visayas.

Gov. Perez lauds 1st Regional OTOP Congress

SAN JOSE, Antique – Antique Governor and Regional Development Council Chairperson Salvacion Z. Perez expressed her pride in the strides which her province and the whole region have taken in the OTOP Program.

UPV to host 2nd International Symposium on Vermi Technologies

The University of the Philippines Visayas will host the 2nd International Symposium on Vermi Technologies (ISVT 2009) at the UPV Auditorium and Graduate and Continuing Education Building, UP Visayas, Iloilo City campus on November 24-26, 2009.

PANAY NEWS

Noynoy, Mar visit in Western Visayas reset Oct. 8-10

ROXAS CITY – The visit of Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and Sen. Mar Roxas in Western Visayas was reset to October 8-10 instead of the first week of this month due to the devastation caused by typhoon Ondoy in Manila and most parts of Luzon.

Roxas City to give aid to typhoon Ondoy victims in Manila

ROXAS CITY – The city government has alloted P500,000 as financial aid for the victims of typhoon Ondoy in Metro Manila and Luzon.

Capiz to host ASEAN Property Rights forum

ROXAS CITY – About 40 delegates from various member-nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will gather here for the experts meeting on the recognition and protection of ASEAN Communal Property Rights on October 3 to 6 this year.

NEGROS NEWS

SP probe on Leonardia administration’s huge expenses pushed

BACOLOD CITY — A taxpayer who got hold copies of the Annual Audit Report of the Commission on Audit (COA) for the years ending December 31, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 recently wrote a letter to Mayor Evelio Leonardia and copy furnished to the Sangguniang Panlungsod

Sugar planters, farm workers give add’l P.5M aid to typhoon victims

BACOLOD CITY — Heeding the call of sugar industry leaders, member planters and farm workers of the Confederation of Sugar Producers Negros-Panay chapter, mobilized their own resources and turned over P500,000 yesterday for victims of Typhoon Ondoy.

COLUMNS

		reflection Narrow roads, big churches By Roy Cimagala

		As seen on TV My date with disaster Stanley Palisada

		Accents Again, I’m leaving on a jet plane (3) By Julia Carreon-Lagoc

		Health@Heart A billion deaths Philip S. Chua

		RES GESTAE Environment-loving cops Francisco B. Lindero Jr.

		Bridging the gap The railroad network in the Visayas (II) By Henry F. Funtecha, Ph.D.

OPINION

Contribution:

Oratio Imperata; Let us also help

YOUNG VOICE:

Handicapped

/ Maria Reylan M. Garcia

Siftings:

‘Rizal Is My President’: The play as positive propaganda

/ Ma. Zenaida B. French

Bull's Eye:

Congressionables

Anything under the Sun:

Mother Rosario (7)

/ Atty Rex S. Salvilla

FEATURES

Snack like you mean it at Auntie Anne’s

It is recommended that we consume at least three ounces of whole grain bread, cereal, crackers, rice or pasta daily in order to meet our daily needs for fiber. And for a fast dose of good-tasting and healthy fiber, there’s Auntie Anne’s, which opened at SM City Iloilo recently.