By Al S. Mendoza ALEX Eala became the newest sports sensation when she won the U.S. Open tennis junior singles championship last weekend in New York, USA. That is no mean feat as Alex crowned herself the best tennis player in the 18-year-old and below in the whole wide…
By Gonzalo Duque I’VE been privileged to be named by Mayor Belen T . Fernandez as member of an executive committee tasked to prepare the activities for our 75th Diamond Anniversary this year with Mayor Belen herself as chairperson. In the first meeting of the executive committee held at…
By Leonardo Micua A deeper and thorough study by government experts is really needed to determine the cause of our flooding in Dagupan City due mostly to tidal flooding and to extreme meteorological factors that cause many rivers to overflow their banks. This is because of the nagging suspicion in…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo OVER time, we forget, no matter if we say, we will never forget. In the same manner, we remember, even if we choose to forget. As we transition from one stage to the next, we often forget more than we are able to remember. We…
By Farah G. Decano CARDINAL Antonio Tagle once said, “[i]f you are not useful anymore, you are dropped, you don’t exist. It is not human dignity. It is not a contemplation of human dignity. Even people are measured by profitability.” That people must bring value to an organization in…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. VIVA is a Spanish word that literally means ‘long live’ in English. Some Latino countries say “Viva” to congratulate somebody for an achievement, some as a birthday greeting. I learned this when I was a fourth-year high school student at Jackson High School (now…
By Rex Catubig BEING advanced in age tends to make one retreat and hark back. It seems to follow the rule in physics where for every action there is an equal opposite reaction. So as you move forward in years, the more you get older, the more you look…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. I managed to watch Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez’s interview on DZRD’s “Ikaw ang Bida” last Friday and, frankly, I cannot but commiserate with her. Listening to her detail all the problems in the city that resulted from failed governance of the Brian Lim administration, and…
By Al S. Mendoza LET’S call a spade a spade. Chot Reyes has just committed a monumental boo-boo that will haunt him for the rest of his life. He chose a meaningless chore over a hugely important mission. Instead of putting his heart into TNT’s title-retention campaign, he shuttled…
By Gonzalo Duque I missed to write my column last week because I was in the hospital for my routine executive check-up, checking on my diabetes, heart condition, if I have lipid, liver and kidney disorders, neurological disease, and diseases in the colon and other body organs, including my…
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