Roots
Posted on August 5, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Roots | Leave a Comment
Rain dance
By Marifi Jara
As an enthusiastic gardener, I have been devotedly praying for a constant dowse of rain from the heavens.
I’ve even had tempting thoughts of organizing a community rain dance in our barangay using indigenous Philippine musical instruments.
I think it would be an equally enjoyable alternative activity for our videoke fanatics [...]
Feelings
Posted on August 5, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Our real, not reel, “Pinoy brothers”
By Emmanuelle
THE biggest Fil-Chinese federation builds schools for the barrios the Federation of Filipino-Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Inc. (FFCCCII), to date, is a network of 170 chambers of commerce and trade and business associations all over the country. It is the largest organization of Filipino businessmen of Chinese [...]
A Kabaleyan's Thoughts…
Posted on August 5, 2007 - Filed Under A Kabaleyan's Thoughts, Opinion | Leave a Comment
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Bulan na Lingguahi ed Lapag a Bansa
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Tayug Mayor slammed
Posted on August 5, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
POLICE FAILS TO ARREST SUSPECTS
Mapili refuses to surrender 3 bodyguards
LINGAYEN–The police is prepared to throw the books at Mayor Carlos Mapili of Tayug if he continues to coddle his three bodyguards believed involved in the slaying of a passenger van dispatcher and the wounding of a tricycle driver last July 24.
Police Provincial Director Senior Superintendent [...]
Yap:'It's an extended dry spell, not drought'
Posted on August 5, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
SAN MANUEL– “ Don't panic.”
This was the message of Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap to the people in the Ilocos region over the dry spell being experienced in the area over the last few weeks.
Yap, in a talk to newsmen during his visit of the San Roque Dam Monday, said the weather condition is an effect [...]
PGMA hikes reward for Resuello killer
Posted on August 5, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
Kabesa's head now worth P1M
LINGAYEN-A P1 million reward is now being offered for the capture of the principal suspect behind the murder of former San Carlos Mayor Julian Resuello.
The reward money, originally set at P500,000 through funds pledged by citizens and the police, was doubled by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo when she visited Rosales town Wednesday.
Senior [...]
Three guns-for-hire in Apilado slay charged
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LINGAYEN–Murder and frustrated murder cases have been filed against three suspects involved in the shooting of Vice Mayor Bonie Apilado of San Manuel and his driver on June 20 in Urdaneta City.
However, the three, as well as the mastermind behind the murder, remain at large and are the subject of an intensive manhunt by Task [...]
Urdaneta maintains 2 city halls
Posted on August 5, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
URDANETA CITY–This town's new city hall, the biggest and grandest in the province, has become more of a financial burden to the local government.
Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr., who served his first term in 2001, said there was a significant drop in tax collection when they moved to the new building, which is about five [...]
Police nabs marijuana dealers
Posted on August 5, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
LINGAYEN–The provincial police have arrested 12 suspected marijuana dealers in different parts of the province after it intensified its campaign to rid the province of illegal drugs.
Senior Superintendent Isagani Nerez, provincial police director, said the arrests indicate that their successful efforts against shabu have prompted the drug dealers to shift to the distribution of dried [...]
Model police station in Alcala opens
Posted on August 5, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
ALCALA–Here's another model police station in the making.
The new police station here inaugurated last Monday, is now being bandied as the latest model for the rest of the province.
“People didn’t expect that a small town like ours, a fourth class municipality, could build a beautiful police station building but we showed to all that if [...]
