Edwin T 11 Feb 2012 Re: Dagupan collected measly P81-T from fish trade Her Highness Belen Fernandez is aghast that a measly P81,000 was collected by City Agriculture Office’s (CAO) last year. One has to wonder how much taxes Madam Belen paid in taxes from her fishponds. It has…
PUNCHITERIA
Paging MAYOR BENJAMIN LIM: Please account for the P16 million lost by the city for the failed sanitary landfill project. Paging POLICE PROVINCIAL DIRECTOR ROSUETO RICAFORTE: When will you order your city and town chiefs to arrest illegal gambling den maintainers openly operating the “Drop Ball” game…
Our People Have Not Forgotten
Editorial Cartoon
Stop plagiarism THE advent of the World Wide Web has given us a new kind of freedom – access to an almost bottomless amount of information. And the introduction of search engines, the most popular of which comes in the form of www.google.com, has provided us with the power to…
Editorial
Work ethic By Ermin Garcia Jr. LEST I am misunderstood, my recent items on the rampant plagiarism that afflicted both print media practitioners and teachers in the province were prompted by a need to make the ill-advised professionals realize that work ethic is primordial in the practice of a…
Punchline
JdV, Tito Primicias: V Day greeters By Jun Velasco “Judge not, that you be not judged.” — Matthew 7: 1 A LOT of people have told us the angry exchange at the impeachment trial has sort of made the country a hate-country. An ironic twist of our reputation as a…
Think about it
Good work, Governor! By Gonzalo Duque AT LAST, per advice of elder brod Cesar, our pen puts to rest our commentary on Dr. Voltaire Arzadon. Pasalamat siya for free advertising. He has become very popular because of our column. Mahal yon, pare Ermin, di ba? Anyway, we did it not only for Cesar actually…
Playing with Fire
Tabuena has nothing to be ashamed of By Al S. Mendoza A FRIEND of mine asked me: Why was a neophyte pitted against a veteran? He was referring to Miguel Tabuena as the neophyte, and Mardan Mamat the veteran. The Mardan-Tabuena duel was in the final round of the ICTSI…
General Admission
On Top of the Situation By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD TAKEN either in the good or pejorative sense, someone said to be “on top of the situation” implies and says one and the same thing. It means that the person concerned has controlling coverage over an issue under consideration, has…