Charter Change or Administration Change? By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD COMPARISON is not odious when it becomes necessary to make the right choice. Comparison is neither obnoxious when sound reason dictates that there is an imperative to point out what is true or false. And comparison is now dutifully…
Bayambang: Proposed cycling capital of PH By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. PRIOR to the staging of the First Gerry Lacuesta Memorial Cup, Bayambang Mayor Ricardo M. Camacho announced his plan to promote Bayambang as the cycling capital of the Philippines. His two reasons: 1) Lacuesta, the man who pioneered the…
Trafficking in Persons By Johanne Margarette R. Macob MY last weekend was different. Instead of the usual laundry, clean-up, or family bonding days, I spent three days in Baguio City learning about human trafficking, the situation and how we, journalists, should go about reporting it. Trafficking in persons (TIP) or…
Accuser becoming the accused? By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE full-court legal (psy-war?) offensive of the Cabangon Chua group against the Belen Fernandez administration in Dagupan has started, if the publicity that the group launched is to be believed. As it appears today, the cases allegedly filed against Mayor Belen…
Bayambang’s other, stellar side recalled By Jun Velasco ““The perfection of virtue is to conceal virtue,” Quintilian THE town of Bayambang is at center stage today, March 16, when a cycling classic—Gerry Lacuesta Cup—reels off. Yes, it’s part of a series of activities to drum up interest on…
Balon Dagupan vs. Dating Dagupan By Gonzalo Duque THER’S a funny joke going on in Dagupan. It’s like this. People, by and large, are happy with what is going on in their city. In spite of the bankruptcy left by the past administration, Mayor Belen Fernandez was able to…
On Slaughter & Lassiter, values misplaced By Al S. Mendoza THERE is both praise and criticism for Ginebra’s Greg Slaughter and San Miguel Beer’s Marcio Lassiter. For declining an offer to join the Gilas Pilipinas basketball team, Slaughter and Lassiter got applause for their unselfish act. But others said…
The continued challenge By Bebot Villar EVERYDAY, arrests of drug pushers in the past weeks in different places sa Pangasinan fill the blotters of our police stations. Sana ganito na parati every week. This is an indication that drug pushing is still rampant despite the intensified campaign and efforts…
CUTE! By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD SUCH is the less painful way to describe a sad phenomenon, a soothing mode to speak of a shameful reality – “Cute!” The word not only lessens the mortification but also somehow neutralizes the disgrace present, the scandal generated – “Cute!” There is…
What happened to Werweran ed Mangaldan? By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. MORNING of March 10, a day after my town Mangaldan’s fiesta celebration ended, I went to the public market to buy some foodstuffs for my family’s daily consumption. And believe it or not, I was bombarded by queries from…
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