Playing with Fire
If we don’t speak up…
By Gonzalo Duque
THIS should interest if not excite you: the Lyceum Northwestern University is organizing its Little Football League as it has already finished its spacious football field on the university’s pang-international grounds.
No, the project was not inspired by the Askals, maybe part of it… but by the fact that most US presidents were football players during their youth.
The field’s official opening has made our students happy especially the foreign students who have families in the province.
It is also an eco-tourism come-on aside from being a sporting facility.
Come to the LNU new world.
Waja lan amin so anapen yo!
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Back to Dagupan City’s exasperating “basura” problem.
Anto?!! Wala ray manpasnok no iporek tayo yan problema?
Anta yo, wala itayo ed demokrasya… where the last man among the governed deserves to be heard. If we don’t speak up, our democracy dies.
Say gabay day arom amo ibasyo la yan isyu ta idayew lan idayew si Mayor Benjie Lim because they say, he is doing his best to solve the garbage problem.
Is he doing his best? We disagree.
Nen saman ni. Look, people, this is the same mayor who told us in his first term as Dagupan mayor that “in less than a year the garbage, this basura problem would be licked.”
Now, last week, you all heard Pangasinan Agrarian Reform Officer Atty. Raul Laluan at the Sangguniang Panlungsod. He said there’s no way the city can anymore claim ownership of Awai, that luckless property which the city bought for P16 million! Anggad natan, atelek lay intiron mundo et simplen tepet na ayan palapagan akasulat ed primiron pahina ni!
Punch told Mayor Lim: ”Produce the title to the 30-hectare lot for the sanitary landfill that you made the city for P16 million.” Has he ever replied?
Benjie has been ignoring this appeal. He is telling everyone he is still negotiating with certain parties in order to resurrect the city’s ownership of that Awai. Ay awey! How could he?
Methinks imbasura la man ya titulo.
Manalwar kayo ta ayay mattek ya publisher mi imbaga to la may abayag lan alagaren na aray reform-oriented Dagupenos. He said there is already somebody who will file a case against those who benefitted from the “Awey” deal.
Sicayo ran manononot ya manag basay Punch, may we ask this: Why do you think Councilor Brian Lim was moving everything to block Atty. Raul Laluan of Agrarian Reform about the controversial Awai property deal from speaking before the Sangguniang Panlungsod? Obvious ba? May itinatago ba? Singa Watergate ya amo? O, anengneng yo la, sin liwawa na high noon what they are trying to do … conceal the truth from the public!
Let’s commend Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez for her solid opposition to all that are suspicious from the city executive! Say kulang labat, Vice Mayor, amay pan-file na kaso ed pikewet ya gagawaen na ciopakaman. Are you afraid? If so, that would make you a conspirator in silence! You are abetting a wrongdoing.
Lately, we congratulate you for bringing back to your fold two of your former allies who were earlier hoodwinked to the tune of P 1.5 million. Galit so Pare Ope. Pl.5 milyon as incentive to approve the resolution authorizing the mayor to sell McAdore and a city property in Calasiao. Ok ra yay duraa — Councilors Karlos Reyna and Alvin Coquia. Walay prinsipyo ra. There’s still hope in this land! We hope we can still say the same of the others who have been tainted by Macaderya! Anggapo ni amoy aderewan, awa, Manny? Pero kimolaney iray pigaran amimigo tan amiga. Are we talking of shame here? Akaoley kayo lan man-interpret agagui!
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The youthful Rep. Teddy Casiño of Party-list Bayan won the local media’s hearts when he guested at the PPC’s Media in Action last Wednesday.
We asked him what he thought are the reasons that should qualify him to become a senator. He talked briefly but full of wit. Among others, he was the author of the “Whistleblower” Act, which has been OK’d in the House, and the Freedom of Information bill Never mind the many others. For these advocacies, Teddy Casino has our vote.
We need him in the Senate. He is articulate, courageous and, ok, ladies, watch out, gwapo!
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