A profile of ‘Sta. Barbara’ folks?
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Eduardo Pontaoe
20 Nov 2007
When will Tolong - the pre-Hispanic name of Santa Barbara - regain its meaning, its courage, its morality?
In 1967, when the Papacy discharged Santa Barbara from sainthood of being unsaintly, it sent a moral upheaval thru all those towns and entities that carried her name.
Why now? Centuries after [...]
Pangasinan, per Spain’s journal
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Eduardo Pontaoe
20 Nov 2007
When was Pangasinan founded?
This question is as archaic as the province itself. The only recorded history of the province’s founding can only be found from the Spanish perspective.
Before the coming of the Spaniards, there’s no written chronicles pertaining to, but just glimpses of what the province looked like in the [...]
Corruption on high gear
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Jeremias Andrade Carrera
20 Nov 2007
The recent news about the $232 M loan being withheld by the World Bank due to bid rigging and overpricing just means that indeed corruption is engaged in high gear.
Walang ng preno, at baka ilalagay pa sa OVERDRIVE bago 2010. Kaya pala puro mga malalaking project ang palaging iniisip kahit [...]
More good ideas please
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Heidi
20 Nov 2007
Re: Mr. Carrera's Excellent Studied Assumptions
I'm so sorry to call your well-researched study "assumptions" because they are just simply as that. There is nothing more to it, regardless of how much reading and research you have spent in coming up with those statements.
I do, however, respect your "studied opinion". You are [...]
Shed off colonial trademarks
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Alfredo Natividad
20 Nov 2007
When will Binalatongan regain its real name before the friars changed it to San Carlos? When will Tolong regain its real name before the friars changed it to Santa Barbara? When will towns all over the country shed their colonial trademarks?
