Playing with Fire
MCAdore or Macaderya?
By Gonzalo Duque
OUR sincere condolence to the family of former Gov. Tito Primicias who died last Monday at age 81.
Life is like that, mga agagui.
Life, indeed, is too short. Let’s not waste it in trivial things.
May Manong Tito rest in peace!
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Too busy these days.
This is the reason we couldn’t find time and energy to indulge in trifles such as one publisher’s peeve over our supposed overstaying as press club president. We were thinking, even for just a humanitarian reason, if we bite his line . . . but our club officers / directors solidly gave us a resounding vote of confidence.
So, tama na yon seguro, mga kapatid at agagui since we are living in a democratic rule.
OK, we said we’re too busy. Yes, in Manila and hereabouts.
Friday, we presided over a PRISAA (Private Schools Athletic Association) meeting mainly to prepare the province’s hosting of the national meet on Feb. 10-16 early next year. That’s only two months away, folks. And already our partner, nay, bosing, Guvnor Spines is also on his feet for this grand event, with Pangasinan being the venue.
Isaludo tayon amin si Guv ed tsampyan ya panagmaneho to ray onian actividades. All over the country, dayewen day Spines ya singa impan asikaso day recent Palaro national games nen imbeneg ya pigara labat ya bolan.
It was then Gov. Victor Agbayani we partnered with for PRISSA games hosting in 2006, the first time we played host to it. Pangasinan’s hosting became a benchmark, standard, reference point for the grand national games.
Also, just a couple of days ago, we actively participated in a Philippine Ass’n of Private Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAPSCU) meeting and the Coordinating Council for Private Education of the Philippines. The subject? It’s how we in the education sector are handling the severe challenges the new curriculum K-12 which has included kindergarten and two more years in high school in the curriculum.
Matindi ya, mga agagui. Just think about it.
Many children who live in distant areas where, worse, there are no colleges and universities? Ansakit so ulo na aray educators! But order is order. Law, however, harsh is the law.” Dura Lex Sed Lex.”
It’s like implementing Phil Health, you know. Everybody with Philhealth cards is happy, but the hospitals are located miles and miles away!
The government showed compassion by appropriating P10, 000 per student. OK yan, but is that enough?
Araya kabaleyan so momotektekken mi in the name of service. Our country, it’s true, is graduating from its extreme poverty status, having climbed a few rungs up, but still, we are still below the line.
This is development’s litmus test. And, as our forbears say, “better to light a candle that curse the darkness.”
Hay!!! And last Wednesday, being the chair of the Annual Search for The Outstanding Filipino Physicians (TOFP), we were at the Manila Hotel awarding rites, with Tom Ceriles, JCI Senate president, and Mel Velasco, TOYP executive director.
Grabe, grabe schedule natin, Manny.
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Aha, so Mayor Benjie Lim is resurrecting from the grave his defunct Pangasinan Sun Star newspaper! Does the Journalist Code of Ethics allow a politician – and during election season at that! – to be a publisher of a newspaper?
Agti pala mantitilaan! Of course, the name of the politician will not appear in the Editorial Box, balet amtay interon sanlibotan no siopay akankien!
Grabe met so panag insult dad arom ya palapagan. We have more than 15 local newspapers that don’t want to see his corruption activities! Saksakey kalamor so Sunday Punch ya manpaparungtal na katwaan (truth). (Sorry, mga abays, but that’s the truth!)
Makapalek so rason to, agagui, ompiano walay objective tan impartial ya managpalapag kuno! Ha, ha, ha, hay, buhay!
Por Dyos met, panon ton objective tan impartial so dyaryon kayarian na politico? Ibasileng yo pala yan bulok ya idea!
Say rason, no agkayo tangaw tangaw, Mayor Lim has very poor regard to the provincial papers. He really thinks all these papers could not deliver the message he wants to fight the Sunday Punch!
We’’ give an example. The Awai deal issue. He bought the Awai property at P 6 million. Then sold it to the city at P16 million.
Ni, anggad natan, agto naimpanengneng so titulo na property.
Now, he wants to resurrect Sun Star (we better warn the Garcias of Cebu about this) to serve him. The other Pangasinan news weeklies do not exist. Bale wala ra.
Any day now, the city will bid MCAdore. Hmmm… ambanget la yan isyu, agagui, naoringan lay gamet na majority of our councilors on this Macaderya issue.
Siyempre magicken day saliwan. Mantalunggaring so interest nen mayor.
He will buy it at P100M, then sell it at P400 million! We know his track record! Palabigasan toy Dagupan, awa Manny?
That’s what he’s done with MCAdore (Macaderya).
Let’s recall. With the help of then Land Bank director Albert Bolingit, the city borrowed P50-million for the purchase of the MCAdore bldg. Then President Gloria ok’d it because BSL told her proceeds would be used to build a new City Hall!
Was that so? A-magic si Ate Glo. Where’s the P50-million? Where is the city hall? Everyone knows that in Dagupan, when it rains, city hall is BSL – “Below Sea Level.”
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