Tribu Bola-Bola of Iloilo National High School will be seeing action again during the Iloilo Dinagyang 2009. This news was confirmed recently in an e-mail by Dinagyang Foundation Chairman Ben Jimena. In fact they are also scheduled to join the Dinagyang Consensus Forum on Sunday September 21.
Tribu Bola Bola has been for their quick split-second precision choreography and eye-catching costume and headress. The pride of Iloilo National High School is also known to be the leader in making innovations in Dinagyang Festival.
TACLOBAN CITY- A grand and majestic celebration of the Sangyaw Festival this coming June 29 is guaranteed as 11 major cities plus two big municipalities outside Tacloban City will be sending their own cultural contingents to join the festivities here.
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Last weekend the sixth typhoon to enter the Philippine area of responsibility has ravaged most of Panay Island, some areas of Negros Occidental, Leyte, and left several towns and cities flooded.
Typhoon Frank (International Name: Fengshen) claimed hundreds of lives, destroyed hundreds or even thousands of homes destroyed, and leaving a multitude of people with nothing to eat and nowhere to stay. One of the most damaged areas in the Philippines is the province of Iloilo. Until now, electricity has not yet been restored. Potable water is very very limited. And the food is scarce.
When travelling from Iloilo to Bacolod (or vice versa), one cannot just simply set foot at the port without passing by Muelle Loney. The port of Iloilo was opened to international trade in the year 1855. During its heyday, goods from other towns as well as from neighboring Negros Occidental are sent to Iloilo first before it gets exported to other countries.
It was during this time that money, wealth, and treasures literally and figuratively flows into the port of Iloilo. Its residents would build palatial mansions for the family especially along the Area of Jaro.
And the man who brought the riches of sugar industry to the region is the British Vice Consul Nicholas Loney. Because of his great contribution to the rise of sugar industry, he was named as the Father of the Philippine Sugar Industry.
And because of all his great deeds, that long stretch of road along the port of Iloilo is named after him. The long and narrow road leading to the port of Iloilo will forever be remembers as Muelle Loney.
And even after the downfall of the sugar industry, the diversification of the businesses in Iloilo and the movement of several sugar barons and influential families to other lands, Muelle Loney still stands witness to Iloilo’s once grand and illustrious past.
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