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Pelayo: Citizen EdPam on 7 decades of shared friendship

J. Pelayo IV / from 3 hours ago

FORMER Angeles city mayor Edgardo “Ed” Pamintuan has turned 71 years old last February 23. One of his closest friends, the original Dennis Uy, organized a supposedly modest birthday party of just seventy guests which was later learned to be not feasible. That was not a surprise. EdPam has too ...

Cervantes: Caragan fest taunts Covid-19

Ding Cervantes / from February 27, 2020

ALLOW me a brief break from Marian and other supernatural issues, as I express some concern over plans of the Mabalacat City Government to push through with the annual Caragan festival amid the threat of Covid 19.Last Tuesday, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US warned ...

Pangan: Featuring Pogo and Togo

Benjie Pangan / from February 27, 2020

THIS piece took after the comedy duo of Pugo and Tugo in the 50s and 60s. It tends to bring to light the recent controversies involving Pogo, or the Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators, and Togo, or the other gaming operators including STL, sakla and, of course, jueteng.Admittedly, Pogos give our ...

Pena: Ban single-use plastic?

Rox Pena / from February 27, 2020

THE Technical Working Group (TWG) of the Ecology Committee of the House of Representatives is tackling a bill to ban single use plastic. They invited the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCII) environment committee of which I am a member to a meeting to discuss the pending legislation.Going through ...

Sangil: The Angeles-San Fernando Macarthur Highway needs an overlay

Max Sangil / from February 26, 2020

IT'S good to know, very heartening indeed, that almost all local government units in Pampanga are financially healthy. As described, good financial housekeeping became the common traits among them.Recently, I had a conversation with my friend Juliet Quinsaat, Angeles city treasurer, and with her signature smile, she happily told me ...

Lacson: Sarah, be happy

Michelle Catap Lacson / from February 26, 2020

I HAVE been a keen admirer and supporter of the Pop Star Princess Sarah Geronimo for the past few years now. I recall how I have come to like her so much to the point of me feeling like a big sister to her now. I think it was because ...

Cervantes: Medjugorje, Medjugorje, Medjugorje

Ding Cervantes / from February 25, 2020

CONSIDERING the historic and spiritual magnitude of the Medjugorje apparitions, I thought that most people in Catholic Philippines would be familiar with them by now. Wrong. Casual queries have told me most Pinoys, at least in my Pampanga surroundings, know Probinsyano on TV much better than Medjugorje. Some are totally ...

Garcia: Pamiganaka king EDSA king Banwang 2020 (Remembering EDSA in the Year 2020)

Kragi B. Garcia / from February 25, 2020

"Kanyaman ing mye king sariling balayan,Nung alang alipan at atin kang kalayan.Bale susupilan, mibangun bang lumaban mu namanAt paralaya sumala ya king aslag na ning kalayan!Ing balen kung Pilipinas, labwad ding dalaga't bulaklakLugud ing karing keying palad miyampang yang legwa't dalaga.At king keyang timyas at legwanDing dayu megayuma la nganBalen ...

Lacson: Tears of joy

Michelle Catap Lacson / from February 24, 2020

EAT Bulaga’s “Bawal ang Judgmental” February 21 episode was truly exceptional. For the first time, parents of children and adults on the Autism Spectrum joined the contest and presented to the audience the many challenges of raising their children born with autism. It may seem easy to get offended by ...

Sangil: Clark, then and now

Max Sangil / from February 24, 2020

SOMETIMES it is puzzling to me why business groups in the country, particularly the influential Makati Business Club are raising “serious” concerns on President Duterte’s move to terminate the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and were never concerned on the abuses resulting from a supposedly “strong relations” with the United States ...

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