Try Tony Rala’s idea By Jun Velasco AMID the nonstop wave of criminality worldwide, a close kin, former adman-turned evangelist Antonio Rala came up with a simple but, in our view, powerful scheme to preempt criminal acts in buses, jeepneys, including their terminals. Couched in a letter addressed to DOTC Usec Dante…
Hail P’Noy, Mar, Liberal Party! By Gonzalo Duque IN case you’d think the ngasngasan sa city hall is all bad, think again. It’s good for our democratic check and balance dynamics. Fight is better than onor-onor, it augurs for checking abuse by the authority in power. Mabuhay ka, Vice Mayor…
Is the city in ruins because of father and son? By Al S. Mendoza AGAIN, the father and son thing. They are almost one and the same. What the father is, so is the son. That’s been a truism “as perennial as grass.” A mango won’t bear a santol fruit….
Death Penalty: Here we go again! By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD THERE are more and more criminals in the Country. There are more and more heinous crimes done. There is more and more fear in the streets, in the community. Murders are ordinary events. Rapes are no longer big news….
A well-organized league By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. SO far the 2nd Jimmy Fernandez Cup being held at the Divine Word Academy gym is being run smoothly except for some lapses on the part of table officials and a team member. That’s what I observed with my partner Phil Celi…
“Greener pasture” at the cost of life By Roselle P. Gale I AM an OFW daughter. And I have no regret that I am. But considering the plight of other overseas Filipino workers and their families out there, I grieve. For almost 14 years now, my mother has been working…
WHAT’S THIS?—(Upper photo) Dagupan City Councilor Maybelyn Fernandez, majority floor leader, raises the documents of the latest version submitted by the office of the city mayor that contain the glaring errors. (Lower photo) The staff of the department heads takes note of the discussion. (Punchphotos by Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
SP asks city hall to correct entries WHAT’S A budget of P480,000 for two slaughterhouse personnel in a city that does not have a slaughterhouse? This was only one of the many questionable items in the proposed 2011 budget of Dagupan City, which has now been tossed back by the…
BUDGET HEARING–Councilor Alvin Coquia (holding microphone) raises a question about the resubmitted budget as Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez (second from right) and Councilors Luis Samson Jr., Jeslito Seen and Alfie Fernandez listen to the discussion during the budget hearing on Wednesday at the Dagupan City Sangguniang Panlungsod session hall. (Punchphoto…
SAN FABIAN–The chairman of Barangay Tocok here was shot and killed on January 20 while on his way to the town plaza for the Barangay Night that culminated San Fabian’s town fiesta last week. Arsenio ‘Ambet” Bucao, 49, on his second term, died from a single bullet wound on the left side of his head…
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