Author: Alex Vidal

[Opinion] ‘Beauty and the Brave’

WITH apology to Walt Disney Feature Animation which produced the 1991 American animated musical romantic fantasy film “Beauty and the Beast” and released by Walt Disney Pictures, “Beauty and the Brave” is how I describe the contrasting exposure in the national media of two Ilonggos in the last week of October albeit in two separate events and controversies.

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[OPINION] There’s nothing to ‘sacrifice’ now?

IN April this year, or a month after the Philippines started to absorb the initial blows of COVID-19 pandemic, we wrote that proponents of the Panay-Guimaras-Negros (PGN) Island Bridges Project “should not sacrifice” the P275 billion project under the Duterte administration’s Build, Build, Build program “no matter what happens.”

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[OPINION] Power blackout probe: SP’s time to shine

FOR the first time since after the May 13, 2019 elections, the Iloilo City council or the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), will finally hog headlines when the inquiry on the frequent power blackouts that hit Iloilo City these past months will unfurl in the SP committee on public utilities on June 30, 2020.

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