In Pichay’s defense; JDV awards golf champ By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. It’s a bag of nonsense that senatoriable Butch Pichay is being made to resign his position as national president of the Philippine Chess Federation simply because he is gunning for a senate race. I know the guy as…
Be not sad! By Emmanuelle Melancholia. Depression. The latter much worser than the former, ungrammatically on top of dramatically. This is the writer’s self-diagnosis of what regularly ails her all of the days leading to Black Saturday, starting from Ash Wednesday. Every year. All of the years of…
1,000 days as payback time By Ermin Garcia Jr. It’s showtime, folks! Watch out for the singing, dancing, baby-kissing clowns with their toothpaste smiles, their campaign vests stashed with P20, P50 and P100 bills, all hoping to lure voters with their “caring” stances. But after the lowliest of the lowliest…
Outstanding Pinoys in int’l music world By Gerry Garcia TODAY, first day of the Holy Week, is Palm Sunday where the faithful come to church to commemorate Christ’s entry into Jerusalem with processions in which branches of palm are carried… and blessed by the priest. It’s the ashes of these…
Political virus By Jun Velasco AT the rate Philippine elections are going, we’re afraid the democratic ideal is getting bruised beyond repair. It threatens the foundation of what we have held sacred and diamond-precious, which is the election of the best and the brightest in government now getting ensnared by…
Unsolicited political advice By Gonzalo Duque MINUS the physical violence inflicted by a mediaman on a brother in the industry – may justice be served with dispatch on this – on the last day of filing certificates of candidacy, Pangasinan was peaceful and exciting. Most attractive sight was Speaker Joe…
A few good men By Al S. Mendoza I AM sad that Bebot Villar had backed out of the gubernatorial derby. His iron-fist style of leadership could have made the difference had he ran and won. But I am sadder that Oscar “OO” Orbos also nipped his bid to run…
Powerhouse team vs. “TH” line-up By Eva C. Visperas Maybe you want a peek of the big day when the Fernandez-Fernandez camp versus the Lim-Mata line up filed their certificates of candidacy for the May elections, particularly for Dagupan City. At high noon March 29, cheering supporters, with hundreds of…
Barangay captains By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Supposedly for basically civic intents and purposes, the position of barangay captain has been introduced in the country—not without basis from early Philippine history. That is why the holder of the office has its Spanish title of “Capitan del barangay”. Gradually and…
RP coach Reyes, PBA cagers conduct GenVel’s basketball clinic By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER successfully staging a bicycle road race last year, retired PNP Deputy Director General Reynaldo V. Velasco threw in his support to his second favorite sport, basketball. GenVel, as he is fondly known, sponsored a basketball…
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