Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Iloilo News Archive Description An account of the resource News, old and new, about Iloilo Province Subject The topic of the resource Iloilo Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document ANTIQUE seems to be closer to the heart of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. than Iloilo. As a matter of fact, the upgrade of Antique airport, named after the late assassinated former governor Evelio “Beloy” Javier, a critic of the President’s late father, former President Marcos Sr., will reportedly commence this month with no less than President Marcos Jr. himself giving the green light during his recent visit in Antique. The repair of the more sophisticated and more important Iloilo International Airport, on the other hand, will start in November, or four months after the upgrade in the Antique airport was scheduled to start. Not only that. The scraggy Antique airport, not operational for awhile due to lack of passengers from Manila to the capital municipality San Jose de Buenavista, pales in comparison to the Iloilo International Airport yet, its upgrade is reportedly estimated to cost some P500 million. The budget for Iloilo International Airport’s repair? P190 million, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP), which has established an accelerated timeframe for utilizing the allocated fund. According to CAAP’s timeframe, the initiative plans to add two new escalators while replacing two existing ones, upgrade Flight Information Display Systems, a private automatic branch exchange system, fire detection and alarm systems, gang chairs, and one elevator to improve the passenger terminal building, and install three chillers for a total of P190 million. The total amount in Iloilo airport is some P310 million shy of the total budget of P500 million appropriated for Antique airport. ADVERTISEMENT If our mathematics is right, the disparity in the budget reflects the level of favoritism and, to some extent, politics that continue to bedevil the priorities of this administration in the infrastructure and tourism projects. But wait a minute. Didn’t Mr. Marcos Jr. lose both in Antique and Iloilo to former Vice President Leni Robredo in the 2022 presidential election? Robredo drubbed Marcos Jr. in Antique 142,663 or 44.73 percent to 115,027 or 36.07 percent. Marcos Jr.’s campaigner in Antique, Senator Loren Legarda, who topped the Antique senatorial contest with 231,832, failed to give Mr. Marcos Jr. a victory despite her influence and popularity as former Antique representative. In Iloilo, the bailiwick of former senator Franklin “Frank” Drilon, Robredo steamrolled Marcos Jr. by 728,781 votes or 54.81 percent to 459,261 or 34.54 percent. -o0o- FIVE years ago, during the oath-taking of newly elected local officials attended by then Supreme Court Associate Justice Francis Jardeleza and billionaire industrialist Enrique Razon, Iloilo Governor Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr. vowed to serve the province of Iloilo based on “social justice” in a speech. We expect the governor to give the Ilonggos an appraisal on how far he has gone in the implementation of “social justice” in Iloilo Province. Let’a hope his political marriage with President Marcos Jr. won’t ebb into “social injustice” for the Ilonggos. Social justice is originally a Catholic term, first used about 1840 for a new kind of virtue (or habit) necessary for post-agrarian societies. The term has been bent by secular “progressive” thinkers to mean uniform state distribution of society’s advantages and disadvantages. It is really the capacity to organize with others to accomplish ends that benefit the whole community. According to the United Nations, “Social justice may be broadly understood as the fair and compassionate distribution of the fruits of economic growth.” Social justice refers to a concept in which equity or justice is achieved in every aspect of society rather than in only some aspects or for some people. A world organized around social justice principles affords individuals and groups fair treatment as well as an impartial share or distribution of the advantages and disadvantages within a society. Formal definitions for social justice vary in wording, but there are commonalities among them. 1. Equal rights 2. Equal opportunity and 3. Equal treatment Citation Citation of the article Vidal, A. P. (2004, July 1). What’s Marcos Jr.’s airport priority? Iloilo or Antique? Daily Guardian, 4. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource What’s Marcos Jr.’s airport priority? Iloilo or Antique? Description An account of the resource ANTIQUE seems to be closer to the heart of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. than Iloilo. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Vidal, Alex P. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://dailyguardian.com.ph/whats-marcos-jr-s-airport-priority-iloilo-or-antique/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Daily Guardian</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Daily Guardian Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource July 2, 2024 Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Subject The topic of the resource Airports Antique (Province) Iloilo International Airport