KAMING MGA MATATAPANG ANG APOG: AN ESSAY ON DILG's MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR NO. 2026-06

 It's about time!

When DILG issued its Memorandum Circular No. 2026-06 on January 29, 2026, the movie title, "Kaming Mga Matatapang ang Apog," came to mind. I thought that movie title was brutally frank, yet funny! It starred the Superstar Nora Aunor and the King of Comedy, Dolphy. In English, it means "We are Shameless!"

Yes, 'shameless', the word that describes some local public servants (I said 'some'😁), should have been part of the memorandum's addressee line for specificity purposes. Since it's targeting the shameless, why not spell it out?

Now that the DILG has the balls to order its public officials to be 'mahiya naman kayo', as the memorandum circular prohibits the display of the name, image, and likeness of public officials on government projects, we expect to see less of the local politicians' images which are usually edited as most of them are, well, unphotogenic (I didn't say unattractive, ha?😂).

I remember seeing a local female councilor n person and was disappointed to see how different she looked from her photographs online. I had to ask my mother, "Ambi ko si _____ damo kuwarta. Nga-a wala niya 'na guin-paretoke iya ilong?" (I thought _____ has money. How come she didn't have her nose fixed?")

Maybe that was the memorandum's unwritten objective: to spare us from disappointment when we see how these local politicians' images online and on tarpaulins are so unlike in person as if they all mutated after elections.

About two years ago, when I went up to the second floor of our City Hall, I was welcomed by a platoon of smiling standees (life-sized cut-outs of a person) of the city mayor and the vice mayor. Both politicians were together in one standee which made them look weird. Why? Because, in the standee, they were of the same height when, in reality, one had an above-average height while the other one was deprived of it. Improper proportioned or not, they looked like they were enjoying their conjointment.

Upon seeing their cut-outs, I wondered why this duo spent taxpayers' money just to reproduce their images. I asked a City Hall employee why and he told me the reason: so that the people would know who they are. I didn't bother wasting my time to argue with him; the employee-slash-foot-soldier was probably a 'job order' whose loyalty was to his cardboard idols.

This is the intention of the memorandum: to prevent politicians from exploiting, abusing or misappropriating taxpayers' money for their own political propaganda.

That day, at the City Hall, while I faced the platoon of inanimate faces, I felt like it was a scene from the TV drama, Game of Thrones, where rows of The Unsullied, those castrated slaves of Daenerys Targaryen, stood motionless in front of their master. Like slave-soldiers awaiting orders as to where they would be deployed, these cut-outs awaited orders as to where they would be displayed.

But I wonder if this memorandum would really be obeyed because, aside from Republic Act No. 6713 that directs public officials to be ethical, as early as 2013, there has been a COA Circular No. 2013-004 in place that discourages the display of pictures and images of public officials. And yet, our local officials seemed to have difficulty complying.

Going back to Nora and Dolphy, even though both are gone, they are still dearly remembered. Why? Because of how they made people fee. Through their stories and movies, the two superstars made people laugh, cry, and inspired people in between laughter and tears.

The local politicians, on the hand, also make us laugh and cry, but for the wrong reasons. We cry because it is our money they spend like it was their own, and we laugh because the joke is on us.😭

So, sa inyong lungso, bayan o barangay, sinong opisyal ang mga matatapang ang apog?

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FORGETTING GAT ANDRES AND LOLO JOSE: AN ESSAY ON VICTORIAS CITY'S POOR MEMORY AND ITS NEGLECT OF THE REAL HEROES

On November 30, 2025, Bonifacio Day, while the rest of the country was celebrating the hero, Victorias City was just busy trimming its Christmas tree at the public plaza, ignoring to honor Andres Bonifacio, whose statue, standing a few meters from the tree, was sadly ignored, bereft of any semblance of any celebration of his heroism.

Then came today, December 30, 2025, Rizal Day.

Again, while the rest of the country was celebrating the most famous and the most honored hero of them all, Lolo Jose's statue in the Victorias City public plaza stood somber and alone even with the festive Christmas atmosphere around the city.

This is how the local government of Victorias City leads in honoring the country's national heroes - with a poor memory.

Just two weeks ago, the local government spent taxpayers' money on the Kalamayan Festival which included performances, DJs, and games. And yet, it could not even remember to spend for a bunch of flowers for the national heroes.

Over the years, I observed that the public servants of the City have worshipped the wrong heroes: themselves.

They have put up a monument that was bigger and more expensive than those of Jose Rizal and Andres Bonifacio, and even creating a 'day' for a fake hero with parties and expensive wreaths just to push their agenda of using a dead man for their political propaganda. Unfortunately for them, I was able to prove their so-called history to be fake after all. (Read blog here).

And while I understand that the emcees who have hosted the programs at the public plaza are either hired or city hall employees themselves, they always feel the need to kiss up to their 'bosses' because they have to enumerate the names of the city officials on every other sentence. Although I thought they might have been ignorant of the fact that those programs and festivities are funded by the people's money because they always neglect to thank us, the Victoriahanon, for paying for the sound system, the lights, the decorations, the cash prizes, and of course, for their catered dinner after, which may involve some 'balutin mo ako take-out' for all we know.

The real character of a people is manifested on how it honors its past and its present. Sadly, the leadership of Victorias City these past years has failed to do just that.

It failed to honor our national heroes who have been standing gallantly in the Victorias public plaza for decades as a reminder of who we are as a people. Au contraire, the city government conjured up a fake hero whom they use for their political propaganda.

These elected public servants also neglect to honor the heroes of the present, the ones who keep the City afloat, the ones who contribute to the economy adn those who have put Victorias City on the map: the business owners, the tricycle drivers, the delivery people, the sales clerks and cashiers, the so-called 'riders', the restaurant and cafe owners, the fish, meat, vegetable and fruit vendors, the workers in teh fields, the fisherfolks, the students and athletes, the elderly, and the rest of the Victoriahanon who quietly contribute to the economy but are ignored by the City anyway. And if you are saying that the local government has some welfare programs for some of them, think again.

You can always see that they are just being used for politics: the upload photographs in the social media for their so-called distribution of scholarships, medicines, rice, and noodles that were bought by taxpayers' money. On top of that, the local government imposes the closure of the streets to give the tricycle drivers, students, business owners and the commuting public a hard time roaming around the City.

The National Historical Commission of the Philippines's theme for Rizal Day is "Rizal: As Our People Rise, Your Teachings and Wisdom Guide Our Way."

How I really wish that Rizal's teachings and wisdom trickle down to our local government.

But it seems that we may have to wait for another Bonifacio Day or Rizal Day for that to happen.😭

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VICTORIAS TOWN HISTORY: THE TOWN COUNCILORS AT THE WAKE OF DON FELIX MONTINOLA

On the previous post, I talked about the photograph of the wake of Don Felix Montinola on the second floor of municipio that he helped build. He died on September 25, 1949, seventy-six years ago this year (see blog here)

Somehow, another photograph taken during the wake surfaced. This is where the respected Victoriahanon and certain town officials of 1949 posed with the coffin of Don Felix.

Although some of the gentlemen's faces were familiar, I had to research the ones I was unfamiliar with. And with the help of some sources, including the Sangguniang Panlungsod archives (thank you to the very helpful SP staff!😊), I was be able to name almost all of them.

Standing on the lower left of the photo:

Don Agustin 'Toting' Jereza (left)(read Don Agustin's contribution to Victorias here) and Don Benito Montinola, Sr. (right) (read Chapter 21 about Don Benito Montinola, Sr. here). 

Standing at the back from the left down to the lower right:

The first gentleman is yet to be identified; the second gentleman is Mr. Cesar Hedriana. Next to him is former Mayor Hector M. Montinola (mayor from 1946-1950), then Mr. Jose Ma. Fernandez, Mr. Vicente Vitar, Mr. Genovevo Bainosa, Mr. Juan Villegas, and Mr. Jesus Suarez.

The wreath behind Mr. Hedriana was from the "Municipal Council", while the wreath at the center was from "Rep. and Mrs. Carlos Hilado". Yes, it was from Representative Carlos Hilado of the Second District of Negros Occidental, after whom the Carlos Hilado Memorial State University in Talisay City was named.

Although this photograph is an image of sadness because of a passing of a former town leader, it is historical portrait of the former town councilors of Victorias.😊

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SEPTEMBER 25, 1949: THE WAKE OF DON FELIX L. MONTINOLA AT THE AYUNTAMIENTO OF VICTORIAS TOWN

On September 25, 1949, Don Felix L. Montinola, who was the 9th mayor of Victorias from 1934 to 1940, died peacefully in his home in Victorias, Negros Occidental, surrounded by his wife, Doña Dorotea Montinola, her children and grandchildren.

During his term as mayor,  he built the municipio in the late 1930s with the help of then President Manuel L. Quezon (read blog here).

At his wake, held at the second floor of the ayuntamiento (town hall) or municipio (as what we call it in the Philippines) that he helped build, his beloved Victoriahanon as well as politicians from the province and neighboring towns and cities also came to pay their last respects.

After a requiem mass in Victorias, his funeral cortege made its way to the Montinola family's mausoleum in Saravia and along the way, homes were seen hanging black cloth on their windows to show their respect to a great man.

Although Don Felix was born in Jaro, Iloilo, on February 16, 1864, he died as a real Victoriahanon. (See the photograph and read the story of his birthday celebration in 1940 here).

Don Felix was 85.🙏

(Read chapters of the History of Victorias here)

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History That You Can Touch: 1811 Mexican Reales Coin used in the Philippines during the Spanish Period

I wonder if this coin is the oldest one in town.

In my blog about my 1821 Mexican reales coin (read blog here), I referenced to the history of Mexico where the 1821 coin was the last of its kind as Mexico started to mint its own coin in 1822 when it gained independence from Spain.

But this 1811 Mexican reales coin also made me wonder how many families had settled at the mouth of the Malihaw River in what is now called Daan Banwa in Victorias City, where did they come from and what was their way of life.

This coin, called the reales, was used in the Philippines during the Spanish period and was denominated in 8-reales. These were brought to Las Islas Filipinas via the Galleon Trade that started from 1565 to 1815. It stopped in 1815 because Mexico already started to revolt against Spain to gain independence.

But to reference this coin to Philippine history, the first Philippine newspaper, Del Superior Govierno, was established in 1811 with the Spanish Governor General himself as the editor and its intended readers were the Spaniards living in the Philippines, and its content was mostly about news from Spain, according to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts.

Also in 1811, Señor Ventura de los Reyes of Ilocos travelled to Spain to represent the colony at Cortes de Cadiz, the Spanish parliament where representatives from the colonies in the Americas and the Philippines were asked to join and be represented. This parliament drafted the 1812 Spanish Constitution.

This 1811 Mexican reales coin was minted when the Viceroyalty of New Spain, as Mexico was then called, supervised the administration over the Philippines.

This coin's obverse (front side) features the view from the right side of King Ferdinand VII's face and head with the words "FERDIN VII" for King Ferdinand VII of Spain, and "DEI GRATIA", meaning, 'by the grace of God'. The '1811' the year it was minted, is written below it. King Ferdinand VII reigned twice: in 1808, and 1813 until he died in 1833.

The reverse shows the words "HISPAN ET IND REX", meaning 'Spain and the King of Indies'. It also shows a crown over symbols of crowned lions and castles that are sandwiched by two columns of Hercules that are wrapped by ribbons. The dollar symbol ($) which has two vertical lines wrapped by ribbons is said to have originated from this symbol.

This coin has some silver content and weighs 27 grams. As the Mexican reales coin was widely circulated in Mexico, the Philippines, and other Spanish colonies, this coin must have had changed hands thousands of times since 1811. From Hispanic merchants to Chinese traders and to peninsulares, insulares, indios, and even pirates, this particular coin's history is more interesting than its design and commercial value.

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(PHOTOS of this 1811 Mexican reales coin were taken at Daan Banwa and at the Victoria Public Plaza.)

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#numismatics #history #historians #philippinehistory

#coincollecting #VictoriasCity #victoriaslgu #negros

Our 50-Year Old Uway Baskets

Back in the 1970s, my father, who worked at the local branch of PNB, was gifted by his client with this uway basket with an attached cover. His client, a man from the northern part of the Negros Island, told him that he made and sold uway baskets. So, my father ordered one.

Uway, the local name for rattan, is a popular material for baskets because they are durable, pliant and versatile. When my father's order came, his officemates at PNB saw it and also ordered baskets from the maker, and because the man got more orders because of my father, he gifted my father with a bigger uway basket!

For years, my mother would bring the basket to picnics at the nearby beach. She used it to carry plates, cups, utensils, and food.

When I saw these baskets in the storeroom the other day, I took them out, inspected them, and found that they are still usable! After all these decades!

But what fascinated me was the artistry and creativity! Since I hated Geometry and Drafting in high school, I am amazed at how the fibers were woven, twisted, knotted, and tied to give the basket an oblong shape that looked, well, sosyal! I don't know if that maker had a diagram of the basket written down on paper, but, I guess, it was a combination of his skill and artistry that created these baskets!

I am no expert but there must be a thin bamboo strip that serves as a frame but it is still strong and looks durable that it can carry my santol!

These baskets are now at least 50 years old with expected loose uway at the handle. They have outlived appliances and other electronics, and probably me someday.

My hands may touch them as baskets but my eyes see them as works of art.😎

#uway #uwaybasket #rattan #rattanbasket #artistry #artisan #nature #baskets #santol

Philippine Elections 2025: A Letter to a Mayor-Elect

Days before he is sworn in as our City's new mayor, I wrote a letter to the mayor-elect to teach him a few lessons on how to be one.

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June 24, 2025 

Vice Mayor Abelardo Bantug III                                            City Government of Victorias

Dear Vice Mayor Bantug:

This is with regard to your May 7, 2025 letter to me which served as your "consolidated response" to my complaint letters to Councilors Dino Acuna and Eric Alcobilla dated April 16, 2025 and April 25, 2025, respectively, as chairpersons of the Committee on Natural Resources, Environmental Protection and Ecology, and the Committee on Public Safety and Order, respectively. My letters to them were about my concerns and complaints regarding City Ordinance No. 2023-59, the Car-free day Ordinance that closes certain city streets every first Monday of the month.

Your letter, which was obviously written by a lawyer for you, was disappointing and insulting. Disappointing because, even in two wordy pages, you never addressed any of my concerns; you simply deflected them. Insulting because, instead of listening, you simply threw legalese towards my direction that was meant to humiliate any reader. If I wanted a lecture about the Local Government Code, I would just have gone online.

That is not the way public servants respond to the issues, concerns, and complaints that are brought to their attention. You must have forgotten that it is the people of Victorias City that have been paying for your salaries, benefits, and bonuses all these years, and of course, for your delicious meals, travels, hotels, and everything else that you think you deserve we should pay for.

On Monday, June 30, 2025, six days from now, you will be sworn in as the new mayor of our City, but it seems to me you badly need the following lessons on how to be one:

1. Always listen to the voices of the Victoriahanon

When a citizen goes to the City Hall or to any barangay hall to complain, that means he or she is serious about that complaint. The tone from the top should be that of a government that listens to its people, and not one that dismisses them. You and your local government do not have the monopoly of ideas. Neither do you have a complete understanding of everyone's perspectives and experiences. These I learned from my direct engagement with your government. Once your government accepts those facts, it will be easier for you to work for us and with us.

If you do this, we may no longer need to involve the Anti-Red Tape Authority, the Civil Service Commission, of the Ombudsman just to force you to listen.

2. Ordinances and executive decisions should always be for the common good

Based on the information I have gathered, this is what happened and what is happening in regard to the 'Car-free day Ordinance': (1) The Sangguniang Panlungsod approved the ordinance without any public hearing, consultation or discussion with the residents, private vehicle owners, tricycle drivers, business owners, and the administration, faculty, and the students of Victorias Elementary School and their parents; (2) the local government did not conduct any information campaign about it as required by the Ordinance; (3) the local government did not review its effects as required by the Ordinance; (4) everyone suffers during 'Car-free days; (5) city officials still bring their vehicles to work during 'Car-free' days. I discovered that the local government violated its own ordinance by not complying with Sections 8 and 9 of the said Ordinance.

As the presiding offer, you should have made sure that ordinances, especially those that impact the local economy, public safety, and the welfare of the people, are thoroughly studied, have public hearings conducted about it, and discussed with all the stakeholders before its approval. The councilors should have gone out of their offices, gone house-to-house, and spoken to all stakeholders and people who would be impacted. None of those was done for the 'Car-free day' Ordinance.

You should always understand that most people, like tricycle drivers, do not have the time to attend public hearings at the City Hall because they have to make a living during the day. Worse, I learned that the Sangguniang Panlungsod does not exactly like the idea of a lot of people attending public hearings because, when I asked the staff of the Victorias City Information Office (VCIO) in the morning of January 24, 2025, a Friday, as to why the notice of the January 27, 2025 public hearing regarding the P1.086 billion loan disappeared from the VCIO Facebook page, I was told that the Secretary of the Sangguniang Panlungsod told her to delete the said notice.

Fortunately, there were concerned citizens out there who saved the post and sent me a copy. Otherwise, I would not have known about the hearing and I would not have been able to ask the questions which none of the city officials, you included, and members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod present was able to answer. The citizens who attended that hearing went home very disappointed. You should know; you were there.

Every year, the Department of the Interior and Local Government holds the Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) recognition program, and if you really understood the issues I raised in my letters to the two aforementioned councilors, at least four of the criteria were violated by the 'Car-free day' Ordinance, namely: (1) Social Protection and Sensitivity; (2) Business Friendliness and Competitiveness; (3) Safety, Peace, and Order; and (4) Environmental Management.

When you get to be mayor, can you please ask yourself whether ordinances or executive decisions are all for the common good, or it will violate any of the SGLG criteria?

3. Listen to your conscience, and not to those who whisper in your ears

Be your own person. This is the time when you have to grow up for our sake. You probably will take orders from so-called advisers who have their own agenda and who already have concrete plans for bleeding the City dry. For the sake of the Victoriahanon, make sure you surround yourself with the people who are honest, sincere, and who will work for the real 'asenso'. Do not let yourself be some people's puppet.

You now have the opportunity to create your own legacy, a legacy that you can be proud of someday; a legacy that is corruption-free and one that really works for the people.

4. Be a leader, not a dictator

I understand that your May 7, 2025 letter tells me to just shut up and not complain. Victorias needs a leader, not a dictator. A leader listens; a dictator does not.

So, which one will you be?

5. Genuine public service above online praises and awards

As I told the City Administrator in my March 5, 2025 letter to him, the local government should perform and provide genuine public service for us, the people of Victorias, and not just for its press released and for awards given by outsiders as they are not the ones who wade through the floods during heavy rains, fall into open excavation holes that cannot be seen after dark, endure secondhand smoke in public areas, and endure inconvenience during the 'Car-free' day.

If the local government only works for awards and for 'judges' who come to visit only for a day, then, those awards do not really translate to real public service. The 'real judges' are us, the people of Victorias.

6. Make real 'asenso' your legacy

When you ran for vice mayor in 2022, you and your allies used 'asenso' as your byline. Victorias was a 4th class city then. When you become mayor next week, it will still be a 4th class city but with a debt of more than a billion pesos.

We hope that your administration will focus on the goal of lifting everyone up, especially the marginalized Victoriahanon, even in the midst of the burden on our financial resources caused by the P1.5 billion borrowing which I found out was hastily approved.

7. Comply with Section 8(b)(1)(m) of Republic Act No. 8488

Republic Act No. 8488 is the law that created our City, and a specific Section of that law requires the mayor to "visit component barangays of the City at least once every three (3) months to deepen his understanding of problems and conditions, listen and give appropriate counsel to local officials and inhabitants of general laws and ordinances which especially concern them, and otherwise conduct visits and inspections to ensure that the governance of the City will improve the quality of life of the inhabitants."

We urge you to visit us in the barangays and not waste taxpayers' money on frivolous trips to Italy and other countries to attend food festivals that bring no obvious economic benefits to our local farmers and local restaurants.

During the April 10, 2025 hearing held at the Victorias City Public Library for my complaint that I filed at the Anti-Red Tape Authority against the Sangguniang Panlungsod, I told the City's department heads who were convened as the local Committee on Anti-Red Tape that they "cannot see the problems of Victorias from inside their air-conditioned offices". I strongly urge you to visit all barangays, neighborhoods, markets, farmers, fisherfolks, and tricycle drivers' associations because you, too, cannot solve the problems of Victorias while just sitting comfortable in your air-conditioned office.

had you been roaming around, you would have noticed that the satellite fruit and vegetable market at Bangga Daan has been unused since the late 2022. Until now, it is unusable even though the targeted completion date was March 4, 2025.

One important reason for Section 8(b)(1)(m) is for you to not just deliver a monologue but to engage us in a dialogue. In the next three years, you will deliver speeches almost every Monday at the public plaza. A speech is just a monologue; a one-way communication. But when you visit us in the barangays, that monologue becomes a dialogue, which then becomes a conversation.

I encourage you to visit the barangays, not just to cut ribbons or serve arroz caldo. You have the chance to really see, listen, and find out what needs to be done. You will then learn how to serve.

By the way, during the public hearing at the City Hall on January 27, 2025, I raised the issue of the waiting sheds for the commuters in the City. I also wrote the city administrator about it. It has been five months; nobody listened. Very sad.

8. Make transparency your legacy

I went to the City Accountant's office on January 30, 2025, to ask for the 2024 financial statements of the City. At first, the City Accountant, whose office is at the ground floor of the City Hall, wanted me to write another letter to the mayor for the same purpose. I told her that she was giving me, an ordinary citizen, a hard time as I had to write another and go up the stairs to the mayor's office for the same purpose: a request for financial statements that should have been available to everyone.

The kind of reluctance on the part of the local government to be transparent about the people's money and where it is spent should have no place in your government. If you really want good governance as part of your legacy, post the monthly, quarterly and annual financial statements of the City's income and expenses online so everyone can read it and be aware where our money is spent. 

The https://victoriascity.gov.ph/ website is also not updated. The ordinances and resolutions for 2023 are only up to the third quarter, while the 2024 ordinances and resolutions posted are only up to the second quarter.

While the Facebook page of the VCIO is full of praises and photographs of the public officials, and occasional, irrelevant birthday greetings of people not from Victorias, we will appreciate if the said Facebook page and the City's official website become the media of transparency by posting periodically the City's financial statements that show how much we earn and how much we spend each month, quarter, and year, as well as notices of public hearings and proposed ordinances.

The VCIO can start by creating an album where the City's annual financial statements audited by the Commission on Audit, as well as its findings and recommendations, will be posted. 

I hope that during your term, we will finally feel that the local government really values transparency. 

9. Remind yourself every day that the government is not about your but about us, the people of Victorias.

We know that some, if not all, of the elected officials feel that the world revolves around them. It seems that the people have mistakenly elected egos (and maybe some crooks!) into office, and not public servants. We hope that once you become our mayor, you will always remind all officials that they are public servants, and therefore should always put themselves in our shoes in all your legislation and government decisions.

The people should not be just a footnote in your speeches nor an afterthought in your legislation adn decision-making.

We are and should be the center of government.

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On July 7, 2025, the first Monday of July, the 'Car-free day' Ordinance will be imposed again. On that day, I suggest you do the following: (1) stand at the corner of Montinola and Yap Quiña Streets at 7AM to observe the chaos the VES students and their parents will endure; (2) take a tricycle from the Victorias National High School to the Victorias Commercial Center (VCC) that will be forced to detour around Brgy. 4 doubling the fuel usage and reducing the earnings of the tricycle drivers; (3) observe the vehicle congestion along Miraflores, Jover and Arnaez Sts. in Barangay 3 that will again endanger public safety; (4) stand at the corners of Jover and Ardosa Sts., and Jover and Jalandoni Sts. at 4PM to observe traffic congestion; (5) stand at the corner of Osmeña Avenue and Jover St. to observe how the delivery men struggle to bring goods on their trolleys across the highway under the scorching sun or rain to get to the VCC because delivery vans will not be allowed; and (6) talk to the rice dealers and business owners at VCC and ask about the impact on their sales when consumers like the senior citizens will refrain from buying goods that day as it will be heavy for them to carry because they will have no access to the tricycles at the market's north entrance.

Tani, maluoy ka man sa mga tricycle drivers. Nagasaka pa guid ang presyo sang gasolina. If you empathize and feel pity, then you may just be the mayor we need.

The Victorias we create today is as important to the future Victoriahanon as it is to us now. We pray that your term will be successful because your success is our success.

Madamo nga salamat. 

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