Ed Pontaoe
6 May 2008

 

 

Ms. Marifi Jara:

The best of trips, like the best of love affairs really ends . . .

The end is in the beginning, when you get married to it.

Ed Pontaoe
5 May 2008

 

 

Gov. Espin-off appalled? Dismayed? Shocked?

The state of condition these provincial hospitals in Pozorrubio, Lingayen, Manaoag, San Carlos, Dasol, Alaminos, Tayug and Umingan?

Took him almost two years to notice Pangasinenses dropping like flies?

Almost two years to know these hospitals are not hospitals but morgues?

Is it hindsight?

Nooooooooo!

It’s a ludicrous show of compassion, that he should have done his first day in office; rather done showing the Sunday Punch how to pick cigarette butts.

Why now, Mr. Governor?

What made you shed “bayawak” tears?

What did break your heart?

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Cabinet Revamp and Transactional Politics

By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.

Now it can be said without reserve and with ethical certainty. There are more than enough indications that Malacañang itself even wants it openly known and noted. The ruling administration has nonchalantly demonstrated and continues to prove that transactional politics is its devious expertise. The publicly admittedly “secret” of a forthcoming cabinet revamp is exactly what transactional politics is all about. Political interests – not the good of the general public – are the priority. Partisan concerns – not the general welfare of the people – are the focus.
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Worth celebrating

It was a festive week for the province with the celebration of the annual Pista’y Dayatand the holding of the major events for the month-long Bangus Festival in Dagupan, Pangasinan’s main business center.

People flocked to the streets and beaches for the  parties, many participated in sporting events and other competitions, tiangges and food stalls were crowded, and the fiesta spirit was very much in the air notwithstanding the rains that weather forecasters have earlier warned will be falling even during the dry season this year.
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The boy… and sex

By Ermin F. Garcia Jr.

Summer season is that time of the year that most boys aged 5-11 either look forward to or dread coming.

‘Tis the time for circumcision! It means pain and a test of one’s courage. It means passage to maturity, affirmation of manhood.

Alas, it’s also the start of misconception about sex and nature’s reproductive system. And members of the immediate family of the newly circumcised boy unwittingly contribute to it.
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Labor Day for OFWs, especially

By Gerry Garcia

LABOR Day celebrated in honor of workers is most often a holiday.  In the US it falls on the first Monday of September . . . unlike here in Pinoyland and in other countries where May 1st is the common choice.

In this country which brags with understandable pride how its economy is buoyed somehow by remittances from millions of OFWs abroad, especially in the Middle East and in Asia, including Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, etc., Labor Day should have a special meaning focused on giving recognition, to our overseas foreign workers, of their deserved role as the country’s unsung heroes. And to the unfortunate ones who fall prey to the deceptions of illegal recruiters, the Administration could do no less than to exert efforts to help or protect them as they are part of the country’s unwitting saviour.
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All these festivals are good for nothing if . . .

By Jun Velasco

WE were locked in a lively exchange over how and why a modernizing city could be so crazy over a fleshy aquatic animal called bangus.

Can’t you, Dagupan people, come up with something better, say, larger than life, or something more meaningful?

A scholar-friend must have found the mestisang bangus too trifling or bland to advertise the city of Joe de Venecia and Al Fernandez asked us that.
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Origin of Pista’y Dayat

By Gonzalo Duque

THESE festivals  we are  having these days — from Lingayen to Dagupan and all the coastal towns of San Fabian, Binmaley, Labrador and  Sual  including Alaminos City — have  their  stories of  origin. Read on.

Manong Resty Basa, well-known local historian and awardee for his work, wrote a recent article for the local papers, and we are taking the liberty to reprint it here:

“Pista’y Dayat is Governor Francisco Q. Duque’s legacy to the people of Pangasinan. It was his brainchild.
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A trip rooted to roots

By Al S. Mendoza

I HAD a chance encounter with Mayor Rey Velasco of Sta. Barbara on Tuesday at the fabled Dagupeña Restaurant.

After the usual handshakes and hellos, I asked the good mayor, “What’s the latest on your airport project?”

Rey was quick to reply.

“The feasibility study is ongoing,” he said. “But don’t you worry a thing, Al. I’ll get my airport project done. I can guarantee you that. You’ll be the first to know when the ground-breaking ceremonies will be held.” So there. Right from the horse’s mouth, so to speak.
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