04 Thursday Apr 2013
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Megworld Corp. has unveiled “One Madison Place Luxury Residences,” its first residential condominium project in Iloilo City. The project will be part of the Iloilo Business Park also developed by Megaworld Corp., the Philippines’ top condominium developer.
The 10-storey One Madison Place Luxury Residences will offer 156 premium residential units located in the heart of the Iloilo Business Park. The whole area is being developed to become the city’s new Central Business District.
01 Friday Mar 2013
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14 Thursday Feb 2013
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Organizers are all set for the staging of 41st Iloilo Paraw Festival which highlights on Feb. 10-17, 2013.
Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick E. Mabilog and Iloilo Paraw Regatta Foundation Inc. (IPRFI) chairman Manny Villa Jr. signed the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the smooth preparation and successful hosting of the sailing event this year.
Paraw Regatta has become a symbol of Iloilo City even as the P450-million Iloilo Convention Center project architecture will incorporate in its design the sails of native outrigger boat showcasing the oldest sailing event in Asia, stressed Mabilog.
He also credited Villa for being instrumental in tourism and cultural promotions through the Paraw Regatta festival as well as in restoration of heritage buildings in Calle Real.
The City Hall committed P1.6-million budget while the Office of Cong. Jerry P. Treñas pledged P300,000 cash assistance.
Paraw Regatta is touted as largest and longest-running traditional sailing event in Asia where colorful native outrigger boats navigate the close to 30-kilometer race route in Iloilo Strait between the city and Guimaras Island.
Themed “Ilonggo Sailing Heritage: Vibrant & Strong!” the 2013 edition features special events including mini-paraw beach race, Miss Iloilo Paraw Regatta pageant, variety show, miniature paraw sail-painting contest, photo exhibit, miniature paraw-making contest, seafood cooking competition, rowing and paddling, seafood festival, photo contest, torch parade, Sinamba sa Paraw Regatta mardi gras competition, deep-sea fishing competition, skimboarding competition, jet ski competition, Paraw Slalom short distance race, rapid chess tournament, national Frisbee exhibition games, national invitational women’s volleyball, beach concert and party, fireworks display, paraw sail-painting contest, and body painting contest.
28 Monday Jan 2013
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Iloilo Dinagyang Festival 2013 climaxed on a high note showcasing the city’s premier celebration and Ilonggos cultural excellence.
“Dinagyang leveled up. It was trending on Twitter (or talk of the town on the popular social networking site). It was perfect, seamless and amazing,” stressed Mayor Jed Patrick E. Mabilog of the successful staging of the 45th year Sapphire anniversary of the festival.
Dinagyang became more popular in terms of participation and performance – it is a living, dynamic and growing festival, said City Tourism Officer Ben Jimena.
This year’s champion Tribu Panayanon of Iloilo City National High School and Kasadyahan winner Tribu Salakayan of Miag-ao, Iloilo are expected to wow national audience in Aliwan Fiesta’s battle of festivals in Manila in April to promote the city as bannered by the world-class Dinagyang Festival.
Dinagyang has also become the first religious-cultural celebration in the country to be conferred the prestigious 2012 National Galing Pook Awards as “Community Participation and Collaborative Governance through Dinagyang Festival” won as one of Top 10 innovative and exemplary practice.
The awards will be handed by no less than Pres. Benigno S. Aquino III in a ceremony to be held at the Heroes Hall of Malacañang on Jan. 30.
As local governance best practice, the festival highlights strong public-private partnership spearheaded by a triumvirate of the city government, Iloilo Dinagyang Foundation Inc. and San Jose Parish Church.
The Awards Program is facilitated by the Galing Pook Foundation as a foremost resource institution continuously promoting innovation and excellence in local governance.
14 Monday Jan 2013
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ood in Iloilo City is literally just everywhere. Especially with the Dinagyang Weekend approaching, the streets started to get filled with foodstalls and Food festivals were being held simultaneously in different designated areas (SM City Parking Lot and the area near the Capitol).
I've heard a lot of talk about how food is in abundance in Iloilo and how inexpensive it is.
10 Thursday Jan 2013
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The Gigantes Islands, with all its beaches, caves and rich marine life, is a real gem in the rough in the province of Iloilo. Its sheer distance from Iloilo City and the rest of the Panay mainland however ensures that it almost always gets bypassed as a tourism destination of beach goers and backpackers in favor of the much nearer municipality of Concepcion or the more accessible province of Guimaras.
02 Wednesday Jan 2013
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 52,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 12 Film Festivals
13 Thursday Dec 2012
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Organizers are now busy preparing for the staging of 41st Iloilo Paraw Festival which will highlight on Feb. 10-17, 2013.
Iloilo City Mayor Jed Patrick E. Mabilog and Iloilo Paraw Regatta Foundation Inc. (IPRFI) chairman Manny Villa Jr. signed Wednesday the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) for the smooth preparation and successful hosting of the sailing event next year.
Paraw Regatta has become a symbol of Iloilo City even as the P450-million Iloilo Convention Center project architecture will incorporate in its design the sails of native outrigger boat showcasing the oldest sailing event in Asia, stressed Mabilog.
He also credited Villa for being instrumental in tourism and cultural promotions through the Paraw Regatta festival as well as in restoration of heritage buildings in Calle Real.
The City Hall committed P1.6-million budget while the Office of Cong. Jerry P. Treñas pledged P300,000 cash assistance.
Paraw Regatta is touted as largest and longest-running traditional sailing event in Asia where colorful native outrigger boats navigate the close to 30-kilometer race route in Iloilo Strait between the city and Guimaras Island.
Themed “Ilonggo Sailing Heritage: Vibrant & Strong!” the 2013 edition lines up close to 30 special events including mini-paraw beach race, Miss Iloilo Paraw Regatta pageant, variety show, miniature paraw sail-painting contest, photo exhibit, miniature paraw-making contest, seafood cooking competition, rowing and paddling, dragon boat race, Esplanade concert, Iloilo River seafood festival at Customs House riverbank, photo contest, torch parade, Sinamba sa Paraw Regatta mardi gras competition, deep-sea fishing competition, skimboarding competition, jet ski competition, Paraw Slalom short distance race, rapid chess tournament, national Frisbee exhibition games, national invitational women’s volleyball, beach concert and party, fireworks display, paraw sail-painting contest, body painting contest, and sand sculpting contest.
04 Tuesday Dec 2012
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Games scheduled for Dec. 5 of the national finals of 2012 Philippine Youth Games – Batang Pinoy in Iloilo City were canceled due to typhoon Pablo which is expected to make landfall here Wednesday.
The matches have been reset Dec. 6-8 by the organizer Philippine Sports Commission (PSC).
Opening ceremonies led by PSC commissioner Jolly Gomez pushed through Tuesday afternoon at the covered basketball court of Iloilo Sports Complex as well as the welcome dinner prepared by City Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog for the delegates.
“For the safety of participants, we decided to cancel the Day One games because we expect the typhoon to hit on Wednesday,” overall project director Atty. Jay Alano was quoted as saying.
Games in athletics, badminton, basketball, chess, lawn tennis swimming, table tennis and taekwondo were moved to Thursday.
Laguna, the Southern Luzon leg champion, is the defending overall titlist following their return in the sporting scene hosted by Naga City last year.
A 300-man strong Pangasinan, the Northern Luzon leg champion is being seen as a challenger to watch.
A total of 107 local government units are competing, 15 from the National Capital Region, 30 from Mindanao, 19 from Northern Luzon, 30 from Southern Luzon and 19 from Visayas.
This is the first time for Iloilo city government to field athletes and co-hosts the sports event with the Iloilo provincial government.
Batang Pinoy aims to identify fresh talents to be pooled for the national team by the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC)-PSC for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in China.
03 Monday Dec 2012
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It’s all systems go for Iloilo City as it hosts the national finals of the 2012 Philippine Youth Games – Batang Pinoy at Iloilo Sports Complex here Dec. 5 – 8 starting with opening ceremonies Dec. 4.
Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog invited the Ilonggos to watch and support the games co-hosted by the city and provincial governments.
The city government facilitated and coordinated the billeting amenities, playing venues, medical and security preparations for the smooth staging and successful hosting as well as safety of participants.
Some 2,000 athletes, coaches and officials from the National Capital Region (Metro Manila cities), Northern Luzon (Regions I, II, III, Cordillera Autonomous Region), Southern Luzon (Regions IV-A, IV-B and V), Mindanao (Regions IX to XII, Caraga & ARMM) and Visayas (Regions VI, VII, VIII) are participating in the national finals.
Iloilo city and province both have separate delegations as a privilege being co-hosts of the sporting event. This is also the first time Iloilo City joins the youth games after it was revived last year.
They will compete for prestige and honors in 14 sports disciplines including arnis, archery, athletics, swimming, basketball 3-on-3, badminton, chess, table tennis, lawn tennis, boxing, karatedo, taekwondo, wushu and triathlon.
Mabilog hopes the youth games will discover potential talents and promising Ilonggo athletes who will soon make it to bigger national tournaments.
The mayor said incentives will be given to city athletes who will win gold medals from the competitions.
The grassroots games enjoined in-and-out of school youth 15 years old and below.
The youth games are under the supervision of Philippine Sports Commission, Philippine Olympic Committee, Department of Education and Department of the Interior and Local Government.
