ILOILO MEANS BUSINESS: Senate President Franklin Drilon speaks before local leaders and businessmen involved with Iloilo’s economic rise during his keynote address for the Iloilo Business Forum held at the Intercontinental Manila Hotel today, March 12. The Ilonggo born senator, known as a consistently staunch supporter of the province, lauded Iloilo’s transformation from its deplorable financial and political conditions to a province poised to become one of the economic powerhouses in the country’s south. “If it can be done in Iloilo, it can be done anywhere in the country,” he later said. (PRIB Photo by Cesar Tomambo, 12 March 2014)