Truth at its Most Brilliant
HOUSE Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr. has announced a major housing program to be undertaken by the present administration starting this year that seeks to build one million homes throughout the country.
Talking to newsmen at his residence here Sunday, de Venecia said the government is seeking possible funding of the program from the United States, Saudi Arabia and the governments of China and Korea.
LINGAYEN – Amid rising cost of medicines and health services, Gov. Victor E. Agbayani stressed here last week that the province will further strengthen its health care delivery program to serve the needs of more Pangasinenses.
Agbayani said the second phase of the rehabilitation of the Western District Hospital in Alaminos City has started.
THE new year is known as the Year of the Dog.
Although highly regarded in the Orient or East, the dog gets unkind words and insults from the Westerners who say the dog is man’s best friend.
The English language has colorful but cruel words and thoughts for the dog – the 11th of the 12 animal in the Chinese lunar sign.
SAYAN INDIO
Mario F. Karateka
MAKAPASINAGEM met a tua, ya natulongan mo ray arom ya pinalsa balet abalang la tan agmola natulongan so dilim ya anak laban ed disgrasya.
Ontan sigurado so walad liknaan nen inadaro tayon Ispiker Dyo de Benesya sanen walan ipalabo to so modernon usar ed pilalaban ed apoy ed saray kabiangay bombero na siyudad tan say Panda Volunteer Fire Brigade, sakey a pribadon grupoy Intsik-Pilipinon bombero.
YOU don’t have to be very intelligent to know that with a strong-willed, powerful and entrenched ‘enemy,’ every means can be employed to defeat him or her – and that includes, unfortunately, liquidation or assassination .
While many in the ranks of the leftist and military adventurists think doing away, permanently, with a sitting president like Mrs. Gloria M. Arroyo is the final solution to the utter failure of the opposition figures in the legislature and in the bureaucracy to unseat her thus far despite supposed mountains of evidence against her, we believe there are as many from the ranks of the legitimate opposition who cannot, would not, dare not sanction such a bloody measure, no matter how they may hate the guts of the country’s Little Big Woman.
AFTER ALL
Behn Fer. Hortaleza
A SLIP of paper handed to a member of our household last week and guess what its message was — penalties, yes, penalties for violations of four basic rules in cleanliness and beautification.
Kind enough to provide a slight-to-stiff level of fines for those who have more household garbage than they can handle, the village guys have spelled out the penalties set forth under the law: from P300 for the first offense to P500 for the second and P1,000 and imprisonment (whew!) for the third time you’re found and caught littering.
THE PEN SPEAKS
Danny O. Sagun
AGAINST the bold pronouncements by the police to stop criminals, in particular highway robbers, it is shuddering to note holdupmen seemingly more active now as seen in just this week alone. Three holdups in a row in three days, one per day, is surely not something to dismiss lightly as ‘isolated incidents.’
Robbers first struck Tuesday in Villasis where they carted away some P800,000, followed by the incident Wednesday in barangay Camantiles, Urdaneta City featuring motorcycle-riding men forcibly taking some P335,000 from a couple working abroad and on vacation here. Last Thursday, bike-riding men took some P1million from a Bolinao businessman while he was driving at the city proper in Alaminos just after lunch.
WINDOWS
Gabriel L. Cardinoza
Manny Pacquiao is home. And for a day, a proud, cheering nation welcomed him with warmth and admiration. For a day, political word wars were put to a halt; and for a day, the people forgot all their troubles and worries.
But poor Manny. From the time he disembarked from the Philippine Airlines flight that took him from LA to Manila to the late hours of that Friday night, he was literally tortured, defenselessly taking all the beatings when he was paraded in the streets of Manila and Quezon City and made to appear in before various private audiences, including live television interviews. He might have feigned he enjoyed the limelight because by sundown, in one television show, he was already talking like a broken record – a sure sign that fatigue has set in.
SMORGASBORD
Liway C. Manantan-Yparraguirre
THE town of Binmaley will launch on February 2 its own festival called ‘Malaga and Bingalo Festival’ as part of this year’s fiesta celebration.
Mayor Sammy Rosario said the main industries in Binmaley are aquaculture (bingalo or prawn, malaga and bangus), pottery and furniture.
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