Triumphalism By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THE word as such does not even appear in standard dictionaries. There are terms such as “triumph”, “triumphal”, and even “triumphalist”. But the word “triumphalism” seems illusive. Yet, the truth conveyed by the term is not hard to decipher and wherefore not exactly unknown…
Basketball brouhaha By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. RUMORS circulating in Dagupan that the annual Jimmy Fernandez Cup (JFC) basketball tournament will be discontinued are not to be believed. This was vehemently denied by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez during last Wednesday’s Media in Action forum at Pedrito’s bistro when I asked…
Spoliarium. Spolarium. Artistry and Reality By Johanne Margarette R. Macob “…umiyak ang umaga. Anong sinulat ni Enteng at Joey diyan sa pintong salamin Di ko na mabasa ‘pagkat merong nambura…” I WAS still not in this world and even out of my parents’ minds when the incident happened. But I’ve…
A Bad Omen By Leonardo Galvez ON the very same day Vice-Mayor Belen Fernandez filed her certificate of candidacy for the mayoral post, she was again buffeted by the same forces that failed to silence her in her quest to clean the city of grafters. A woman, her namesake, filed her COC to the same…
TWO BELENS–Vice Mayor Belen Tan Fernandez (left) and 66-year old Belen Tamondong Fernandez field questions from the media after the latter appeared at the City Election Office to submit her affidavit withdrawing her candidacy for mayor. City Election Officer Remarque Ravanzo (right) received the affidavit in the afternoon of Oct. 6….
DIRTY TRICK FOILED “I WAS fooled.” This was part of the statement made by a namesake of Vice Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, who is running for mayor of Dagupan, when she withdrew her candidacy a day after unwittingly filing a certificate of candidacy (COC), also for mayor. Sixty six-year old…
NEIGHBORS and relatives could not believe their eyes when they saw on television Belen Tamondong Fernandez, a namesake of the vice mayor of Dagupan City, filing her certificate of candidacy (COC) for mayor. “That was a joke!” was the common reaction of people from Sitio Sabangan Sur in Bonuan Gueset…
IT will be a relatively easy ride for 22 congressional and local government candidates as they run unopposed in the May 2013 election. Records of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) show two congresswomen, two board members, five mayors, four vice mayors and eight councilors in one town are the lone…
THE second complaint for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act filed against Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim, with City Administrator Vladimir Mata as his co-respondent, before the Office of the Ombudsman is now on course after the anti-graft body docketed it as case OMB-L-C-0495 AT OMB-L-A-0435. The complaint was…
ANTI-CYBERCRIME ACT JOURNALISTS and netizens in Pangasinan can look forward to a new deal in confronting the risks to their daily practice. Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter S. Cayetano recently filed three bills seeking to amend major provisions in the controversial Cybercrime Act and to decriminalize libel and defamation in…
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