By Gonzalo Duque THE withdrawal of Senator Imee Marcos from the Alyansa ng Mamamayang Pilipino, otherwise known as the administration ticket, will greatly affect the senatorial ticket of her brother, PBBM, in the forthcoming election. Because of Imee’s move, we learned that some of the candidates of the administration…
By Leonardo Micua AN ambulance is supposed to be solely dedicated for the transport of sick or injured patients to the hospital so that they can be given immediate medical attention. If the ambulance is used for any other purpose, especially for private benefit, every taxpayer has the right to…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo A tribute to the sand, who came, and stayed inside of me, theoretically, erratically. Happening I am not, tonight, going to talk not because I have nothing to say, (because there’s much I’m going to say) but because I can’t speak about pain, the kind…
By Farah G. Decano WHEN I was in grade two, I appreciated the national politicians dancing on stage during the campaign period. My young self thought that their performance was not for mere entertainment but was also for reaching the masses. As a kid, I surmised that our leaders…
By Eva C. Visperas TWO media colleagues recently confessed their weariness of the ongoing campaign season. My response, a resounding “No!” delivered with a wide grin, prompted a curious inquiry. Why, they asked, did I seem to relish this period? The answer, I explained, is multifaceted. Firstly, there’s the…
By Rex Catubig IT was sometime in the mid-1990s that a friend of mine, while I was on my holiday vacation, invited me to join him and a couple of other friends to do some charity work for the season. He warned me, however, that it would not be a…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE action-filled drama and suspense last week on the “kidnapping” of former President Rodrigo Duterte ‘will certainly create an opportunity for an independent filmmaker to produce a two-hour blockbuster documentary movie. It had all the ingredients – deception by Marcos Jr. about involvement of foreign…
By Gonzalo Duque NOW that the preliminary hearing on former President Rodrigo Duterte’s case by the Internal Criminal Court has been concluded, we learned that one of the confirmed lawyers for Duterte, British-Israeli Nicholas Kaufman, said with confidence that the case of FPRRD is an easy one, both for…
By Leonardo Micua FROM now on, the people of Dagupan should stop hoping that the Mother and Child Hospital will still rise. Yes, this project will not see the light of day anymore because the P150 million allotted to it under the General Appropriations Act of 2022 is no…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ON 12 May 2025, we are going to elect those who will govern our country, the ones we will be calling, “Honorable”, whether they deserve it or not. Most of those we elected could not even pass a regular job interview, but had been entrusted…
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