Motorists often question why traffic lights across Bacolod City are not in operation. I presume traffic authorities find it best to manually control traffic at the more congested intersections. If a traffic enforcer has the skills to properly balance movement as an intersection, sure; but it is not good to have no traffic lights because …
OPINION
How will Bacolod City traffic be this December? (Part 1)
This column looks at how motorists react to the expertise of Bacolod City traffic authorities in their handling of the roads during the Christmas season. In previous years, their experiments were implemented for less than a day before being scrapped. In road management, there are no such things as experiments—before a plan is put to …
Change or be changed
Markets are changing, global economies are faltering. The challenges facing family-owned businesses today are enormous and many business leaders (baby boomer generation) who rose to prominence and wealth as a result of their hard work are no longer capable of reversing the tide of declining revenues. The cause of many entrepreneurial failures is primarily due …
Lighting up Bacolod City for Christmas
The lighting of the “Forbes Hill Christmas Forest” on a property owned by developer, the Megaworld Corporation, left those in attendance amazed at the unique style in displaying 250 Christmas trees—the most of any display across the country. Megaworld-Bacolod Sales and Marketing Vice President Jennifer Palmares-Fong welcomed visitors to the event, which was hosted by …
Marry the right person
Marry a good person. Your spouse should be an ally and not a source of misery. The challenge is to find someone who shares the same values and principles as you and can be your partner in parenthood and in all aspects of your life. As the late industrialist John Gokongwei, billionaire and founder of …
Santa’s timely visit to City Hall
“No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.” –Al Smith Santa Claus visited Iloilo City Hall just in time. The check worth nearly P135 million, personally delivered by the Panay Electric Company (PECO), could best be described …
PECO’s ‘humility’
“Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.” –Saint Augustine The humility shown by Panay Electric Company (PECO) after settling their real property tax arrears earlier this week, which amounted to over P134 million, eclipses the negative stories linked with …
Actually…
It was probably in high school when the excessive use of the word “actually” was first called to my attention. There was always the stereotypical “valley girl” intonation on the end of the word, which was used to start nearly every sentence. Those who used it in such a manner were often seen as either …
A laudable city ordinance
“We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.” —Deepak Chopra Something good came out of the Iloilo City Council before the end of 2019, the unanimous passage of …
‘It ain’t over till the fat lady sings’
“True, it’s not over till it’s over. And even when it’s over, it just begins again.” –Kate McGahan The final hymn has yet to be played but, with their recent win at the Supreme Court, which halted a lower court’s decision to declare portions of the More Electric and Power Corporation’s franchise void and unconstitutional, …