Scrap the SK By Gonzalo Duque KUDOS to the student leaders who in a recent conference in Baguio City made a position paper to scrap the Sangguniang Kabataan from our political system. The young leaders probably saw that the SK was doing our youth more harm than good. Santisima! Have…
Pacquiao is No. 1 turncoat By Al S. Mendoza MANNY Pacquiao is presently proving himself to be the country’s No. 1 turncoat. Do you know what he had just done? He left ABS-CBN for GMA-7. He gave no reason for the transfer. Now I know why Pacquiao deserted the Philippine…
Late but Not Outdone By Sosimo Ma. Pablico BEING LATE IN A LEARNING SITUATION does not necessarily mean that it would be difficult to catch up with those who started from the very beginning, as shown by a 76 year old farmer who has produced the highest and second highest…
From nine down to four By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THIS year’s Southeast Asia (SEA) Games is just around the corner. Compared to the first and second times we hosted this biennial meet, the third time, which was held again in Manila in December 2005, was a very different story….
Never say Never! By Emmanuelle Same feathers, same bird. Birds of same feathers flock together. Trace it way back to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, this habit of collecting together a set of subjects sharing a common feature, or sets of features attributed to one subject, then converting these…
ANOTHER PURCHASE GONE BAD Property subject to CARP GONE with the wind? It appears today that the 30-hectare property in barangay Awai, San Jacinto bought by the Dagupan City government for P16 million as a possible sanitary landfill site may never be owned by the city after all. The City…
IT is all systems go for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on October 29. This was confirmed by the Commission on Election (Comelec) office in Dagupan. “We are prepared,” said lawyer Reddy Balarbar, provincial Comelec supervisor. Meanwhile, Dagupan City Election Officer Remarque Ravanzo said his office already received a…
LINGAYEN–The seat of the provincial legal officer (PLO) has long been vacant and no one seemingly wants to occupy it. Sixth District Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr., himself a lawyer and the longest serving provincial board member in the province, said this situation is “abnormal” and the absence of a…
“A TRIUMPH in the fight against jueteng.” This was how Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, chair of the Krusada ng Bayan Laban sa Jueteng (People’s Crusade Against Jueteng), described the plunder conviction of former President Joseph Estrada. “(The guilty sentence) is an omen that jueteng is a curse Jueteng undermines not…
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