Author: Alex Vidal

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.

NO one is so saddened and “deeply wounded” emotionally and mentally than Luis Lomuntad, President Donald Trump’s No. 1 supporter in the Filipino community in Elmhurst neighborhood here in Queens, New York City.

JOSEPH Biden was not yet declared as the winner in the U.S. Presidential Election 2020, but several Filipinos who voted for President Donald Trump have aired contrasting sentiments in anticipation of Mr. Trump’s possible exit from the White House on January 20, 2021.