English Language in Sessions. I wonder who started it all, using the English language during sanggunian sessions when they should be promoting our national language for the benefit of their constituents who listens and for one, their colleagues who have difficulty expressing themselves with the universal language.

A neophyte councilor always make me nervous when he takes the podium even though he tries to look confident. His grasp of the English language easily betrays him soon as he speaks, to the point of not being able to express what he means because he can’t find the right words and even mispronounced those that are written in his notes.

To his credit, this has earned his colleagues support and help him out to the extent of dictating the right responses behind his back. Maybe this is the reason why some elected officials in legislative bodies choose to remain silent during sessions.

Or baka tamad talaga? – Hilda Austria

 

Mayor, who? An angry text message from a high school classmate showed how a politician in a town in the second district has become a power tripper.

The texter complained about a young mayor with his entourage of bodyguards, who regards himself like a king that everyone should recognize and bow to. He and his bodyguards entered a fast food restaurant in San Carlos City, just few kilometers away from his kingdom, and asked the cashier if she knows him.

When the honest employee said “no,” the embarrassed overbearing young mayor walked out from the resto.

“Should I fire my employee? Of course, I won’t. Malastog, alabas,” said the friend in her text message. “Why are some politicians so boastful and arrogant?,” she continued.

Methinks the young mayor should instead thank his stars that the cashier did not recognize him, otherwise he would have seen the cashier trembling knowing that his family was suspected to be behind the killing of another mayor.

Pardon him, amiga. Perhaps the young mayor was often absent during his Good Manners and Right Conduct classes. – Tita Roces

 

Not a stupid law after all – Finally, an ordinance mandating motorcycle drivers and their back-riders to remove their helmets when in downtown area for identification purposes is not a stupid law after all because it has legal basis.

The decision of Regional Trial Court Judge A. Florentino Dumlao of Branch 42 in Dagupan City stemmed from the civil case filed by retired RTC Judge Victor Llamas, a motorcycle driver himself, who questioned the ordinance, only to be withdrawn later.

We were informed by City Legal Officer George Mejia, who represented the city in that case, that the ordinance authored by Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo, despite the objections raised by the Land Transportation Office, is now in effect in Dagupan. We hope this can help neutralize criminals riding in tandem from claiming another victim. – Ding Micua

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