RP’s crying need today — united leadership By Gerry Garcia OFF-the-cuff survey of public sentiments relating to the on-going drive to gather a convincing number of signatures in support for the people’s initiative for Charter change . . . . is bound to be extra-positive. Especially if it’s made by…
Conflicting emotion By Jun Velasco DAGUPEÑOS are in a grip of conflicting emotions. Sad because a good man who has cast a giant shadow in education, civic leadership and family rearing has just passed away – Dr. Luis F. Samson, beloved founder of the University of Luzon and the Mother…
What’s Ping Lacson’s game plan By Gonzalo Duque FOR coming out with his latest anti Erap antics, Sen. Ping Lacson is being pilloried and also praised. But come to think of it. Is he for real? Or he has a deeper agenda? He was anti jueteng, true, but why did…
Gambling lords By +Oscar V. Cruz Now it is official. Not it can be told. The present government is the biggest gambling lord in the country. Its hands are full of gambling—PAGCOR at the right and PCSO at the left. All other gambling lords of all gambling forms operating in…
STL cum jueteng By +Oscar V Cruz,DD To date, the standing experience is that Small Town Lottery cannot stand on its own. It was tried before and it also folded up not long after. Reason: the “official” total shell-off by their operators is 37%: 10% for the Mayor, 10% for…
Ace up JDV’s sleeve: cha-cha By Gerry Garcia ONE can’t help being amazed at the overwhelming number of motorized trikes (motorcycles) on the road today. Private motorists in the province (as elsewhere most probably) often find themselves harassed left and right by these bike riders zooming in and out of…
A school that love built By Jun Velasco We must be the change we want to see. – Gandhi WHILE a classmate in the university – a resident of disaster-damaged Leyte province – pours out his heart (an entire barangay was swallowed up by rampaging mountain mud killing thousands amid…
Opposition falling apart By Gonzalo Duque A KEY (susi in Tagalog) Michaelangelo Zuce who was earlier spilling the beans on the opposition’s charges that PGMA stole the presidency has just volunteered to help PGMA’s anti jueteng campaign under Secretary Ronaldo Puno. There you are. Zuce can’t be the opposition’s susi…
RP, Asia’s perpetual sad sack? By Gerry Garcia THE recent 6-car bombing suicides which ripped through a major Shi’ite militia force in Baghdad and killed 46 people, injuring 204 others were a trifling event casualty-wise compared to the Ultra stampede in Pasig City last month. This tragic incident netted 74…
Get those stone throwers shot at the plaza By Jun Velasco “Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” — Ashok V FRIDAY over breakfast, our youngest son, Youssef, 22, glancing at two Rizal books on the table, asked if the Rizal Law was still being…
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