Author: Alex Vidal

THERE is a strong possibility that Iloilo City will be the first outside Metro Manila to vaccinate its 500,000 residents if the proposed purchase of PHP200-million worth of vaccines from the AztraZeneca Pharmaceuticals will materialize soon as disclosed recently by Mayor Geronimo “Jerry” Treñas.

DID Facebook or FB, a very popular social networking service and website, sleep on its job?

COVID-19 pandemic will always be a convenient and, perhaps, the most “justifiable” excuse if the Duterte administration will not implement the construction of the ambitious Iloilo–Guimaras–Negros–Cebu Link Bridge while the Filipinos struggle to overcome the coronavirus tragedy and the government prioritizes the grand plan to rescue the slumping economy.

WE all know that Iloilo City’s Dinagyang Festival 2020 was the only annual festival that survived and was held in January this year before the coronavirus disease 2019 (COIVD-19) pandemic eviscerated the holding of all other religious and cultural festivals, including mammoth sports and corporate events slated in 2020.

AT the time when the Filipinos were being besieged by the COVID-19 pandemic and the economy was in a tailspin, God gave Iloilo City Miss Universe Philippine 2020 Rabiya Occeña Sundall Mateo.