ILOILO NEWS

Raul Jr. tells Tupas to mind own business

Iloilo City Representative Raul Gonzalez, Jr. told Gov. Niel Tupas, Sr. to transfer his voter's registration to Iloilo City first before he meddles on the affairs of the city.

Ateneo Law School honors Treñas

Mayor Jerry P. Treñas has been named as one of the honorees of the Ateneo Law School (ALS) Red Mass which will be celebrated Friday, July 6th, at the Ateneo Professional Schools Chapel in Rockwell Center at Makati City.

Displaced night vendors plan mass action

Displaced night vendors outside the Iloilo Terminal Market are reportedly planning to stage a mass action to protest the order prohibiting them to sell their wares outside the market at night.

Yap commits 3 flatbed mechanical dryers for Iloilo

Three flatbed mechanical dryers were committed by Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap to the municipality of Badiangan, Iloilo.

Transfer old Iloilo airport site to LGUs pushed

Iloilo Vice Governor Rolex T. Suplico intends to file a resolution during the first regular session of the Iloilo Provincial Board on July 10, urging President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to transfer without cost the old Iloilo airport site in Mandurriao to the Iloilo City and Iloilo Provincial Government so they could jointly plan up for its development rather than bidding it out to interested private corporations.

PANAY NEWS

Seminar on efficient and effective TB control program up

A two-day live-in Orientation on the Comprehensive Unified Policy for Tuberculosis (TB) in the Philippines will be conducted by the Department of Health-Center for Health Development Western Visayas on July 5-6, 2007 at Residence Hotel, Iloilo City.

Gov't to put up 'grains highway'

The Arroyo administration is setting up a national "grains highway" that will directly link rice and corn production areas to major consumption centers as well as calamity and isolation-prone sites, as part of long-term measures to create more jobs in the countryside, increase the profitability of farmers and fisherfolk, and make food plentiful at affordable prices for low-income Filipino families.

PGMA to inaugurate new Bacolod-Silay Airport on July 13

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo will inaugurate the new Bacolod-Silay Airport in Silay City, Negros Occidental on July 13.

Preparations up for the 16th Visayas Business Confab

Preparations are underway for the 16th Visayas Area Business Conference on September 7 to 9 here.

COLUMNS

Anything Under the Sun Cross and crown of Arevalo By Atty. Rex Salvilla     Consumers Domain A stew of social injustices By Ian Seruelo     Without the Whitecoat Fever: Always consult your doctor By Florentino Alerta II, M.D.

Bridging the gap Slavery as practiced by the ancient Bisayans By Prof. Henry Funtecha     Accents Democracy into the mud? By Julia Carreon-Lagoc     Health @ Heart Human Bar Code By Philip S. Chua, M.D.

OPINION