NO MORE lofty dreams for former President and now speaker of the House of Representatives Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. But events unfolded and favored her. She was thrust again to the limelight as a consequence of power struggle that started in Davao.
Former Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez should have seen it coming when he stripped GMA of her deputy speakership. Alvarez who was appointed secretary of Department of Transportation and Communications by Arroyo showed no gratitude. The immensity of power may have gone through his head, that he even picked quarrels with his former friends like Congressman Tony Boy Floirendo and political allies of the latter. The last nail in his coffin when he wrongly picked on Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte. “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” And the rest is history.
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At first glance you may want to clap your hands by the news that a Korean bank is going to build a $62 million state-of the-art solar power plant in Lubao town. Converting ‘kuno’ garbage into energy. In simple term this is a landfill. This Koreans are not telling it all. They will put a sanitary landfill like the controversial one in Florida Blanca which is meeting a lot of opposition from local residents, multi-sectoral and advocacy groups. The dumped garbage in those landfills can only be converted into energy after several years. Don’t allow your towns to be garbage dumps.
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The Capampangan in Media Inc. (CAMI) met recently former Congressman Yeng Guiao and declared in that meeting he will be in the congressional race next year. He wouldn’t mind even if he will face incumbent Congressman Carmelo Lazatin who was responsible in cutting short his stint in congress. And Angeles City Mayor Ed Pamintuan who is on his last term at city hall may join the fray.He will be in a three cornered fight with Lazatin and Guiao. Very interesting.
What is very interesting is someone dragged the name of Manny V. Pangilinan, MVP to many. Guiao’s supporters are saying that MVP will court the block votes of the INC in favor of Guiao. In fact almost all games where NLEX where Guiao is the head coach are now played at the INC owned Philippine Sports Arena in Marilao, Bulacan. And that MVP even ordered the widening of the access road to PSA.
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Talking about basketball, I stopped watching the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) for many years now. For one thing almost half of the participating teams are owned by only two men, MVP and Ramon S. Ang (RSA) of San Miguel Corporation. In an item a I read in the sports page of a national daily, there’s now the possibility of sister teams Ginebra vs. San Miguel competing for the championship trophy. Why the PBA board of governors allowed such is really ridiculous if not downright stupid. You bimbos there.
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I missed those days of the old PBA. The rivalry between Toyota vs. Crispa. Remember Robert ‘Sonny’ Jaworski, Ramon Fernandez on the Toyota side against Atoy Co nd Bogs Adornado of Crispa. Araneta Coliseum in Cubao then was always full to capacity each time the two teams competed for the championship rounds. Those really are the days.
There’s a saying don’t fix it when it ain’t broke. There was some years ago the Metropolitan Basketball Association where it features teams of provinces with strictly only local boys should be in the teams. Remember the Pampanga Dragons led by Ato Agustin? Remember the Negros Slashers and other provincial teams that caught the attention of the national audience? It was achieving success when they polluted the teams by allowing them to recruit outside of their local boys. So in no time, the audience lost interest. Buried and forgotten.