WINE DRINKING BOSS. A medical doctor confided to this reporter how her former boss in a government-owned hospital in Pangasinan collected bottles of red wine, his favorite, without spending a centavo. The boss doctor uses the supposed request of some members of local media for some bottles as his convenient…
The writing on the wall By Ermin Garcia Jr. AS more details are revealed during the senate and congressional inquiries on the Mamasapano massacre of the Fallen 44, I cannot but fear a far more serious impact and implication of the whole process, including the passage or junking of…
Love makes the world go round By Jun Velasco “Love never fails,” — 1st Corinthians, 13:8 THE election of two Dagupenos to the country’s two highest Jaycee posts — Former Mayor Al Fernandez to the Philippine Jaycee Senate presidency and Vice Mayor Marc Brian Lim as Philippine Jaycees…
Tough leader is needed by the times By Gonzalo Duque WE are getting a lot of good messages and/or endorsements for Mayor Rody Duterte who is reluctantly being catapulted to the presidency. What does this mean? It means — while the others led by Vice President Jojo Binay are…
The real duel By Al S. Mendoza BEFORE you get carried away, one more point: Floyd Mayweather isn’t just a thinking fighter, he is also a cunning manager. He wouldn’t have come this far in his boxing career if he weren’t the master tactician that he is on the…
Winning the war By Bebot Villar I AM happy to note that our mayors in Pangasinan like Mayor Arthur F. Celeste of Alaminos City and Mayor Ricardo M. Camacho of Bayambang are active in promoting their respective anti-illegal drug campaigns. Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez, meanwhile, continues to be…
Humiliation By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. PHARR, TEXAS—-AFTER staying eight days in Fort Worth at the house of Mr. and Mrs. Giles Honeycut where my twins Raisa and Raina reside, and three days in Houston compliments of the Caguioa cycling brothers Amor and Blann and Gilbert Mangahis, I decided to…
Nursing as a vocation By Hilda Austria NURSING as a profession has never been a choice for me because, firstly their uniform easily gets dirty, secondly I don’t like seeing blood and third, I don’t think I have the patience to bear strangers pains due to illness and their family’s…
THE ABORTED HALO-HALO ESCAPADE. It’s during the love month when lovers are most expressive in their emotions. And two lovers, both school principals but assigned to different schools in the third district, already in their past 40s, would not want to be left behind and set their secret date. They…
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