Kingdoms, Filipino-style By Marifi Jara NAMPULA, Mozambique– Over dinner with a Filipina from Mindanao (living here for many years now, first as a volunteer worker then for a private company) and a couple of friends from Europe (well-travelled though never been to the Philippines but they do have friends who…
Councilor Brian’s mom vents I AM yielding my space this week to the thoughts of Celia Lim nee Chua, a dear friend in our teen years and now the ultimate politician’s wife to Mayor Benjie Lim and doting mother to Councilor Brian Lim. First of all, I cannot but admire her…
Try Tony Rala’s idea By Jun Velasco AMID the nonstop wave of criminality worldwide, a close kin, former adman-turned evangelist Antonio Rala came up with a simple but, in our view, powerful scheme to preempt criminal acts in buses, jeepneys, including their terminals. Couched in a letter addressed to DOTC Usec Dante…
Hail P’Noy, Mar, Liberal Party! By Gonzalo Duque IN case you’d think the ngasngasan sa city hall is all bad, think again. It’s good for our democratic check and balance dynamics. Fight is better than onor-onor, it augurs for checking abuse by the authority in power. Mabuhay ka, Vice Mayor…
Is the city in ruins because of father and son? By Al S. Mendoza AGAIN, the father and son thing. They are almost one and the same. What the father is, so is the son. That’s been a truism “as perennial as grass.” A mango won’t bear a santol fruit….
Death Penalty: Here we go again! By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD THERE are more and more criminals in the Country. There are more and more heinous crimes done. There is more and more fear in the streets, in the community. Murders are ordinary events. Rapes are no longer big news….
A well-organized league By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. SO far the 2nd Jimmy Fernandez Cup being held at the Divine Word Academy gym is being run smoothly except for some lapses on the part of table officials and a team member. That’s what I observed with my partner Phil Celi…
“Greener pasture” at the cost of life By Roselle P. Gale I AM an OFW daughter. And I have no regret that I am. But considering the plight of other overseas Filipino workers and their families out there, I grieve. For almost 14 years now, my mother has been working…
Another “Impossible Mission” By Ermin Garcia Jr. HERE’S a seemingly “impossible mission” that only Guv Spines can take on. (After all, he is the only one who tried and is now succeeding in clearing and cleaning the province’s main rivers and tributaries not only to protect the environment but to…
Lakay’s health secret revealed By Jun Velasco SUDDENLY, Lakay Condring Estrella, the senior, is “top of the week” conversation piece in the province. Why so? Because he upstaged everyone when he sprightly showed up at the Capitol to address World War 2 veterans during the celebration of the Lingayen Gulf…
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