Forget Guinness I HATE being a party-pooper but our communities’ acquired fixation over landing a line or two at Guinness World Records for the “longest…most…biggest, etc” title is getting out of hand. Sure, earning a Guinness title can mean something to the community but truthfully, it’s just a very small…
Premature politicking By Jun Velasco “It’s better to look where you’re going than to see where you’ve been,” E.C. McKenzie AN over-protective security aide of Mayor Belen Fernandez roughly pushed aside Manila Bulletin’s Liezle Basa-Inigo while covering the mayor recently. The mayor may not know anything about it. The…
Incredible performance By Gonzalo Duque WE thank Archbishop Socrates Villegas, Vice Gov. Ferdie Calimlim, Ched Regional Director Ms. Teopie Taguibao, and Mayor Belen T. Fernandez for leading the entourage in the blessing of Le Duc Hotel last Tuesday. Guv’nor Spines, PIO Butch Velasco told us, was on his way…
Cristina’s cry scripted? By Al S. Mendoza CRISTINA Ponce Enrile has come forward in defense of her husband. She said Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, her husband of 56 years, is a womanizer but “he is not a thief.” We all know that Enrile was implicated in the P10-billion scam of…
Creative hide-and-seek By Bebot Villar WHILE the police officers are aggressively hunting down the illegal drug dealers, mas nagiging creative pa ang mga damuhong criminal in selling droga! Patunay nito ay ang isinagawang raid last week ng Dagupan City police at mga agents ng Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)…
Gender Identity Question By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD IN its more simple or plain understanding, the phrase “Gender Identity Question” means a young boy or a man having amorous feelings towards another young boy or man, a young girl or woman having amorous feelings towards another young girl or…
Summer time is cycling time By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE are already feeling March’s hot climate, an imminent sign that summer time is now around the corner. Last February 2 during the Binmaley bikefest we, race officials, and especially the participating cyclists still felt the cool atmosphere throughout the…
Being 20-something By Johanne Margarette R. Macob I JUST arrived home from get-together with a college buddy. No serious business to talk about, just shared stories about our respective careers, families, love-lives, etc. until we zeroed in on career, on our dreams. I’m a struggling journalist while she, a struggling…
“OVER THE MYSTERIOUS DISEASE REPORT” LINGAYEN —Say you made a mistake. And the giant ABS-CBN network did just that last March 3 but not after the Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed a resolution earlier in the day expressing its indignation and dismay over the first public apology issued by the network over…
LINGAYEN–The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) has cleared Binmaley Mayor Simplicio Rosario of the administrative charges for alleged grave abuse of authority, dishonesty, and grave misconduct. In a report last March 3 submitted by the committee on good government and accountability of public officers chaired by 6th District Member Alfonso Bince Jr.,…
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