Where’s Dagupan City Hall? By Gonzalo Duque DAGUPEÑOS and Dagupeñas want us to vote for either Al Fernandez or Benjie Lim. If you are asking us, we’d say, sorry, none of the above! Why, well, basic, we have no handsome city hall to speak of Benjie and Al have had…

Open Letter to the Bishops and Priests – 1 By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD It has been reported recently and understandably – that a group Filipino lay Catholics have prepared a revealing open, ardent and urgent letter specifically addressed to the Bishops and Priests of the Philippines, inclusive of the…

Cultural acclimatization By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique—Many years ago, it was a foreigner friend who first stirred in me thoughts about our “gun culture” in the Philippines. He commented how he found it disturbing, quite menacing actually in the beginning and somehow amusing later on, to see security guards carrying…

Ampatuan-like mentality By Jun Velasco ERMIN Garcia was for saying that kabayan Bebot Villar who is doing a great job as head of the Presidential Anti Smuggling Group should have been designated   Dangerous Drugs Board chairman earlier. We should have started much earlier in giving peace a chance in this…

Advice to voters By Gonzalo Duque AMID the confusion of electors in choosing their bets in the 2010 polls, we suggest the following guidelines, to wit: If they go for the brainy, it’s Gibo. If candidate with a heart, Noynoy. If moneyed, Villar. If it’s macho-ism, it’s Erap. The other…

“the Best President the Country has ever had” By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD ”No law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech, of expression…” (Phil. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Section 4). Although unwritten and unsaid, the freedom of speech may not but be premised on objective truth or anchored…

Novel firecrackers By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD It is not a secret that Filipinos by and large have not only an innovative drive in doing things but also a creative spirit in redoing themselves – their outputs included. And this some kind of an in-born trait extends from the ingenious…

Random thoughts at the DCNHS alumni night By Jun Velasco WE were just discussing his TV program, “Kaagapay,” over UNTV a few weeks back. On Dec. 29, 2009, we received several text messages from Rotarian friends in Quezon City asking  us to join a mass  for Dr. Mandy Saquin, past…

Revive dress code in our baile By Gonzalo Duque UNIVERSITY of Luzon president Macky Samson and the unsinkable Boy Rayos of the old UPang were overheard expressing disgust over the low level protocol has plummeted into during the city’s observance of its annual fiesta. Unlike in the days of yore,…

US, China are the world’s worst polluters By Jun Velasco WE are sad witnesses to the conceits among governments of the different countries while dealing with climate change. The document that the world leaders hammered out in Copenhagen to promote a safe world environment has suffered a snag because the…