Playing with Fire
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Playing with Fire | Leave a Comment
Scrap the SK
By Gonzalo Duque
KUDOS to the student leaders who in a recent conference in Baguio City made a position paper to scrap the Sangguniang Kabataan from our political system.
The young leaders probably saw that the SK was doing our youth more harm than good.
Santisima! Have you seen them, some SK officials, merrily riding [...]
General Admission
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Pacquiao is No. 1 turncoat
By Al S. Mendoza
MANNY Pacquiao is presently proving himself to be the country's No. 1 turncoat.
Do you know what he had just done?
He left ABS-CBN for GMA-7.
He gave no reason for the transfer.
Now I know why Pacquiao deserted the Philippine Team during the recent Philippines-Mexico World Boxing Cup in Sacramento, [...]
Harvest Time
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Late but Not Outdone
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
BEING LATE IN A LEARNING SITUATION does not necessarily mean that it would be difficult to catch up with those who started from the very beginning, as shown by a 76 year old farmer who has produced the highest and second highest yields in two seasons of the [...]
Sports Eye
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment
From nine down to four
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.
THIS year's Southeast Asia (SEA) Games is just around the corner.
Compared to the first and second times we hosted this biennial meet, the third time, which was held again in Manila in December 2005, was a very different story.
In our third time as host, [...]
Roots
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under News, Opinion, Roots | Leave a Comment
Who let the dogs out?
By Marifi Jara
I was not surprised to learn that the Philippines ranked third in the Word Health Organization's list of countries with high rabies incidents. But that does not mean I was not shaken. A confirmation of a reality is still, and always is, disturbing.
Travel anywhere around the country, whether [...]
Feelings
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Never say Never!
By Emmanuelle
Same feathers, same bird. Birds of same feathers flock together. Trace it way back to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, this habit of collecting together a set of subjects sharing a common feature, or sets of features attributed to one subject, then converting these into popular sayings. Once is enough. Or [...]
City may lose Awai land
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
ANOTHER PURCHASE GONE BAD
Property subject to CARP
GONE with the wind?
It appears today that the 30-hectare property in barangay Awai, San Jacinto bought by the Dagupan City government for P16 million as a possible sanitary landfill site may never be owned by the city after all.
The City Legal Office recently discovered that the property [...]
Oct. 29 barangay, SK polls all set - Comelec
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
IT is all systems go for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on October 29.
This was confirmed by the Commission on Election (Comelec) office in Dagupan.
“We are prepared,” said lawyer Reddy Balarbar, provincial Comelec supervisor.
Meanwhile, Dagupan City Election Officer Remarque Ravanzo said his office already received a copy of Comelec Resolution 8301 advancing the [...]
Wanted: Prov'l legal officer
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
LINGAYEN–The seat of the provincial legal officer (PLO) has long been vacant and no one seemingly wants to occupy it.
Sixth District Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr., himself a lawyer and the longest serving provincial board member in the province, said this situation is "abnormal" and the absence of a legal officer has been hampering their [...]
Cruz: Anti-jueteng drive the big winner in Erap case
Posted on September 17, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
“A TRIUMPH in the fight against jueteng.”
This was how Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, chair of the Krusada ng Bayan Laban sa Jueteng (People’s Crusade Against Jueteng), described the plunder conviction of former President Joseph Estrada.
“(The guilty sentence) is an omen that jueteng is a curse Jueteng undermines not only moral and social values but it [...]
