Belen has ‘balls,’ Benjie ‘fool’s pride’ By Gonzalo Duque WE had an interesting exchange with Mayor Benjie Lim and Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez over the weekend. Separately, of course. You might be imagining that Ashok Vasandani’s unity project is already working. Not yet. Ashok, by the way, is now being dubbed…
Tiger is back and the second coming is here By Al S. Mendoza I SAID it would come. It finally did, when Tiger Woods won the Chevron World Challenge on Monday at Sherwood in Thousand Oaks, California. Time, indeed, has its way of dealing with us. For nearly 25 months,…
Casino By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD TIME and again, it has been pointed out – with big disgust and genuine embarrassment – that the government under rule of the present Chief Executive, has shamefully become the biggest gambler in the Country. This is by reason of the glaring fact that…
My second world title watch By Jesus A. Garcia BY the time this piece comes out, the world title fight between Filipino World Boxing Organization (WBO) flyweight champion Brian Viloria and number one contender Giovanni Segura of Mexico on December 11 (PH time) may still be in progress or already…
Welcome home Bonuan bangus By Roberto Garcia A LONG time ago, bangus grown in Dagupan were unloaded in Dawel where the Silverio’s Restaurant now stands. Buyers then from all over Luzon flocked to this area where they know the famous Bonuan bangus can be had. Now everything is done in…
Please believe him! By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE waivers are fake! It’s true. I say this because I have no reason to doubt City Administrator Vlad Mata’s claim. Indeed, the alleged waivers issued for the ritzy squatters illegally occupying premium beachfront areas in Bonuan Binloc must be bogus, because…
‘Crime does not pay’ By Jun Velasco “How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.” — Janius WE just read in his People’s Tonight column Chairman Bebot Villar’s chastisement of the peace and order situation in Pangasinan. Because he knows…
Political unity is dawning? By Gonzalo Duque WE wish to congratulate Ashok Vasandani for his role in the “goodwill game” that featured last week our LNU Dukes against the PBA and the action-laden basketball team. The avowed goal to entertain the students and sports-minded general public was satisfactorily met. The games were held…
Fil-Am golf builds bridges of friendship By Al S. Mendoza TODAY is the day before the blast-off of the 62nd Fil-Am Invitational Golf tournament in Baguio City’s Baguio Country Club and Club John Hay. So, from December 5-10, the men’s regular of the country’s oldest amateur team competition will be…
Hacienda Luisita By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THERE was the bloody Mendiola Massacre. There were the bitter strikes of the farmers staged in the Hacienda. There were the gross killings in Tarlac intimately connected with the same Hacienda – inclusive of the murder of a good and kind Aglipayan Bishop…
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