Urdaneta eyes workers' retrenchment
Posted on February 12, 2006 - Filed Under Business, News | Leave a Comment
Urdaneta City – Mator Amadeo Perez Jr. has formed a task force that will evaluate the performance of employees and determine which department they would be most qualified for.
This, he said, is in line with the possible retrenchment program to be effected by the city government this year to cut expenses.
But Perez assured the employees, [...]
Posted on February 12, 2006 - Filed Under Guest Book | Leave a Comment
Shamilla Chuneelall
Canada
12 Feb 2006
Just wanted to say a special thanks to my beautiful cousin Devi and her family for making me feel at home while visiting. Love you lots.
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Geeypee Gabriel
Makati City
11 Feb 2006
Happy Valentine's All … Happy BDay too to Mary Cecille Daroya-Garcia of Toronto-Canada on Feb. 23 May you have more celebrations to come … Good Luck… Good Health … God Bless You!!! All the best to you and your family… We missed you a lot! Thank you, Sunday Punch and more [...]
Business Log
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Kalutan's euphoria
By Eva C. Visperas
They danced, they sang, they ate.
Yes, I took part in the once-in-a-lifetime excitement of the Kalutan ed Dagupan exclusively for the delegates, who took respite from their stressful routine in the middle of the week as they competed in the week-long Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) national games held at the [...]
Feelings
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Images to remember
By Emmanuelle
It was not a crowd out there; it was a mob. The twelve security personnel (of the total force of 104), left to man the Lower Ringside Passage could not have stopped the sudden deluge of bodies surging forward with tremendous speed and force. A guard tried to hold back the tide; [...]
General Admission
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'Ultragedy'
By Al S. Mendoza
If you were Willie Revillame, what would you be doing now?
Willie, of course, is the host of the tragedy-stricken "Wowowee" noontime ABS-CBN show that claimed 71 lives and injured more than 300 in a stampede on Feb. 4 at the Ultra (Philsports) in Pasig City.
I don't know why they continue to [...]
Think about it
Posted on February 12, 2006 - Filed Under Think about It | Leave a Comment
The Duque brothers
By Jun Velasco
During our elementary school years, we would walk from our home in Barangay Malued to the public plaza almost every Saturday to bike around the well-paved square. There were rows of bicycles for rent, which thrilled us to no end. It was in that regular Saturday activity that we met [...]
Playing with Fire
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Athletics and politics don't mix
By Gonzalo Duque
By the time you are reading this, the PRISAA games would have been over. Thank God, it's over? No, I wish the games were still here. We enjoyed every minute of it. And I must thank everyone û from Speaker Joe de V to the last man in my [...]
Here and There
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The inimitable John Lesaca
By Gerry Garcia
Another surprise entertainer from Metro Manila, aside from Gary Valenciano and Dagupeña Mocha, invited by PRISAA honcho Gonz Duque to add color to the just ended national games here in Pangasinan, was Pinoy jazz fiddler John Lesaca, probably the one and only professional violinist in the country who has [...]
Editorial
Posted on February 12, 2006 - Filed Under Editorial | Leave a Comment
Take a bow, Pangasinan
The Private Schools Athletics Association (PRISAA) games end today, Sunday, following a week-long sports competition among some 3, 495 athletes from private schools in the country's 16 regions.
Pangasinenses hope that both victors and the vanquished, with their medals and pains, shall long remember the not only how the games were played but [...]
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