By Gonzalo T. Duque    THE annual Bangus Fest has just ended. What comes next? Just a rewind. Years back, I recall that we experienced a devastating typhoon two weeks after the Dagupan Bangus Festival. Many houses and buildings had their roofs blown down by the typhoon. Parang yong wind…

By Gonzalo Duque   WHEN Mayor Al Fernandez was still alive, he formed a political alliance and named it LiFe. It’s an acronym for Lim and Fernandez. That was the time when then Fourth District Congressman Benjie Lim run for mayor of Dagupan with Al’s son, Alvin as his vice…

By Gonzalo Duque   MANY people expressed serious concerns regarding the reported sudden presence of many Chinese students in the Philippines, especially in places where EDCA bases are located. In Cagayan alone, it was reported that thousands of students are suddenly enrolled and the suspicion is that these students were…

By Gonzalo Duque NOBODY is disputing the claim of Celia Lim and company that the Mother  and  Child Hospital was the brainchild of her husband, former Mayor Benjie Lim. The problem is, the late Lim patriarch was not able to accomplish the project nor did this project able to take…

By Gonzalo Duque   OUR school, Lyceum Northwestern University, was established by my parents, Dr. Francisco Q. Duque and Mrs. Florencia T. Duque, in the late 1960s, then a college, located at our Polyclinic Hospital fronting the Dagupan City Plaza. When our enrollment was already growing, my parents decided to transfer…

By Gonzalo Duque    PALM Sunday is the day when Catholics go to mass and bring with them fronds of coconut or palm tree inside the church and ask the priest to bless these in observance of the old tradition centuries back. This tradition reenacts the triumphal entry into Jerusalem…

By Gonzalo Duque   I’VE been following up the case or cases filed by Vice Mayor Bryan Kua against the three councilors from the majority in Dagupan City. I understand that they had to file a motion for reinvestigation to reopen the case or cases after the prosecutor had already…

By Gonzalo Duque   I happened to get hold of a copy of  a resolution of Maychelle Ablog-Sergio, acting city prosecutor for Dagupan, denying the motion for reconsideration made by Councilor Irene-Lim Acosta, one of the respondents in the case filed by Vice Mayor Bryan Kua against the three majority…

By Gonzalo Duque   IN my enthusiasm to bring a civil case against the majority councilors in our city, I started getting in touch with our friends at the Dagupan City Hall. But I suffered an initial snag because Mayor Belen Fernandez has not been taking my calls. Ditto with…

By Gonzalo Duque    I’VE  been on a semi-retirement mode for some time which is why I suspended my favorite pastime, column writing. Truth is, my editor, Ermin, had been prodding me to resume my column to put my mind in shape but I could not find the right motivation…