A “to-do” list for our public leaders GOODBYES and hellos will be made this week as the winners in the May 10 election assume their respective posts as either new or re-elected officials. A lot of hope and expectations have been pinned on the incoming leadership of President Benigno Aquino…
Sound the tsunami alert By Ermin Garcia Jr. WHILE the provincial and other municipal governments are gearing to avoid a repeat of the Pepeng disaster in 2009 when the rains and floods come, they ought to be reminded that Pangasinan’s coastline communities are very vulnerable as well to deadly tsunami…
Punchline
Noynoy’s ancestors originated in Pangasinan By Jun Velasco OVER a bottle of wine during a media event at the Makati Sports Club last Thursday, someone from the Yellow Force Movement, sidled up to us to say that members of the Aquino family have told him that they (Aquinos) originally lived…
Think about it
No honeymoon for Noynoy? By Gonzalo Duque THE fireworks that crowd on P-Noy need not alarm us. They’re part of the territory. In fact, they are good signs of our freewheeling democracy. You’re right. The son of democracy-loving – Ninoy and Cory Aquino – will not mind living in cowboy-land….
Playing with Fire
Here is Noynoy’s speech on June 30 By Al S. Mendoza TO my dearest countrymen, good afternoon: I thank you all for this humbling moment of making me the 15th president of the Republic of the Philippines . You have spoken on May 10, 2010. I can only bow to…
General Admission
Picture taking By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD This is but merely noting the obvious and simply expressing the evident. There is wherefore not an element of malice nor any iota of ill-will in this submission meant only to point out a former immediate certainty and a forthcoming hesitancy in the…
Viewpoints
Cycling leaders, finally cooling off By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I’M so glad to know that the two warring groups in the Integrated Cycling Federation of the Philippines (PhilCycling) are cooling off. I was told about this by Gary Cayton, the chief organizer of Le Tour de Filipinas (formerly called…
Sports Eye
Cheering for our South Korean friends By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique–I’ve caught the fever here. Football fever. I know I have seriously gotten the bug when I started to be able to name some of the players during chitchat. (It used to be that David Beckam was probably the only…
Roots
TO COUNTER SUMMARY EXECUTIONS LINGAYEN–Under pressure from Governor Amado Espino Jr. to stop the growing number of summary execution by armed suspects riding in tandem on motorcycles, Police Provincial Director Percival Barba has reactivated Task Force Hagibis, a special team of policemen trained to shoot moving targets while also on…
Police reactivate TF Hagibis
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of Dagupan, with Acting Vice Mayor Farah Decano as presiding officer, passed a landmark ordinance establishing the Magna Carta of Women in Dagupan City. Ordinance No. 1954-2010 is the local version of the Magna Carta for Women passed by Congress last year and is considered as…