LeBron, Rafa & Tiger: Three for the road By Al S. Mendoza THREE athletic greats have just traveled identical roads that somehow became grist for sports copy. Basketball’s LeBron James, tennis’ Rafael “Rafa” Nadal and golf’s Tiger Woods, take a bow. Despite your recent debacles, defeats if you will, you…
Self- invitation By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. The mastery of self-invitation well learned and frequently practiced by the highest government official in the land is a source of big personal delight plus all the private agenda and perks that go therewith as a matter of course. When someone is…
Politics in sports getting worse By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. YOU and I are aware that on May 13, 2008 the world basketball governing body, FIBA (international basketball federation), already withdrew its recognition of the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) and declared Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas (SBP) as the…
TO RID LINGAYEN GULF OF POLLUTION It will have to go. Thus said Dagupan City Administrator Alvin Fernandez about the fate of the District Jail located in Bonuan Gueset. Evidently peeved by the endless reports about the continuing pollution of the beachfront emanating from the district jail, he said the…
SAN CARLOS CITY–Heads will roll once city hall employees responsible for the missing P9 million have been identified. This, Mayor Julier Resuello vowed, will happen as he reiterated that there will be no sacred cows in the ongoing probe for the reported missing fund from the city coffers. Both the…
WHO is in charge? Third District Rep. Ma. Rachel Arenas is wont to ask this question noting the high rate of murders in her district, targeting public officials and prominent citizens in the district, and whose cases remain unsolved to this day. She expressed alarm over the manner with which…
THE site for the building of the planned Seafood Processing Plant in Sitio Russia Barangay Bonuan Binloc is finally cleared of squatters as of June 25. The twenty-four families that initially resisted attempts to relocate them, voluntarily moved to the Gawad Kalinga–Bangusville Phase II in Sitio Korea, said City Administrator…
ASINGAN–To break the impasse that’s causing the delay in the completion of the flood control project, Secretary Hermogenes Esperon Jr. hinted government may proceed with the enforcement of a writ of possession issued by the court. Esperon mentioned this possibility as the scheduled dialogue between the landowners and their lawyer,…
STA. BARBARA– The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) commended 18 policemen for the arrest of a fugitive American lawyer in Barangay Botao here last June 16. In a simple ceremony at the town police station, certificates of recognition were handed to the policemen led by P/Supt Eric Noble, chief of…
“FLOODING occurs in Dagupan no matter how we dredge”. This was the reaction of City Administrator Alvin Fernandez, to call for more dredging activities to mitigate the regular flooding in some coastal areas of Dagupan every time high tide occurs. “He stressed that the flooding in areas near river banks…
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