The late Dr. Ado was a sportsman By Gonzalo Duque IN case you don’t know, our late brother, Dr. Salvador “Ado” Tiongson Duque, was, in his own right, a great sportsman. In his teens and early 20’s and 30’s, he was a basketball player. He and former Mayor Al Fernandez, together with…
Carnapping murders, bus-bombing: Who did those? By Al S. Mendoza TERRORISTS did it? As I was writing this, two suspects had been tagged as the perpetrators of the bomb that punched a huge hole to a passenger bus cruising along Edsa near Buendia Avenue in Makati last week. If authorities,…
Pointers on Clerical Discipline By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD Notwithstanding the belief and stance that most of the Filipinos are constituent members of the Catholic Church, that the Country has a good number of Catholic priest assigned to Parishes, Schools and other Church agencies, and that Filipino Catholics are wherefore…
Ebdane’s sports, tourism advocacies By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IT WAS my bosom buddy and media colleague Jun Velasco who introduced and connected me to then DPWH secretary Hermogenes Ebdane, Jr. If my memory serves me right, I think it was in October 2009 when I first met him.
The media in the midst of the crimes By Roselle P. Gale STORIES of crimes and violence have been bombarding us the past weeks. With all of these bloody scenes being beamed out from our television screens, it seems that we are getting used to the carnage. Thus, the result…
WINNING DANCE–Street dancers from the Binmaley School of Fisheries amaze the crowd with their impressive performance that won for them the top prize of P50,000 in the street dancing competition on Feb. 2 of the 1st Sigay Festival. Eight street dancing teams participated while Laoag City’s Daklisan Group took the…
UNFAZED BY JEERS FROM CITY HALL THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) will resume its hearing on the proposed 2011 budget of Dagupan during its regular session on Monday, February 7, according to Councilor Jeslito Seen, chair of the committee on finance.
“Too late the hero!”- Majority SEVERAL hearings on the proposed 2011 budget of Dagupan, undertaken by the city council en banc, have come and gone.
DAGUPAN Mayor Benjamin Lim is adamant that the continued delay in the approval of the city’s proposed P568 million budget by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) is politically-motivated.
STOP wasting our time. This, in a nutshell, was the message sent out by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, who concurrently chairs the Sangguniang Panglungsod (SP), as she called on the critics of the city council and the minority group to just allow the councilors to do their job of reviewing the…
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