That Yolanda-effect
THERE IS something in the series of earthquakes and typhoons of late that I find far and away from the previous calamities that impacted the nation. Not so much in terms of intensity or in the scope and scale of devastation, as in the global response and concomitant relief. So, has anyone even noticed some […]
JB-Hell: Huwag yurakan (daw)
ATAS NG patas na pamamahayag at bilang paggalang sa karapatan sa pagtugon ng sinuman sa pagkalimbag ng anumang isyung kanilang kinasangkutan, ating inilalathala dito ang “Opisyal na Pahayag ng Jose B. Lingad Memorial General Hospital Tungkol sa mga Batikos sa Serbisyong Medikal.” Ito marahil ang kasagutan sa ating pagpuna na may pamagat na Ill-treatment at JB-Hell, (matutunghayan […]
They just lie there, and they die there: Ill-treatment at JB-Hell
WHAT HATH fashion maven Mich Viray wrought! No, not in the sosyal realm of haute couture but in the arena of social media justice. Taking the cudgel for her Casa Moda staff Ruby Ann Lazaro, Mich wrote a complaint letter to Dr. Monserrat Chichioco, medical center chief of the Jose B. Lingad Memorial General Hospital (JBLMGH), over […]
Wronged, to the end
HIS FINAL verse metered and rhymed, Calliope – poetry’s muse most divine – Unto Felix the golden laurel crowned. Alas, unto death poet laureate Felix M. Garcia remained dispossessed of recognition of one major work of his lifetime. Here’s that story published here on March 21, 2019. Intellectual property wronged “JUSTICE TO Mr. Garcia was already […]
TTKD: AC’s defining festival
WITH THE Abacan River back to its placid state, Angeles City stirred to life anew. Edgardo Pamintuan, with an overwhelming mandate as elected mayor, electrified his constituents with the clarion call Agyu Tamu (We Can!) to inspire confidence that the city could rise, phoenix-like, from the volcanic ashes. Pamintuan was inspired by a few intrepid city entrepreneurs […]
First 100 days: Sans promises, Dinan delivers
STA. ANA, Pampanga – The “suntok sa buwan” wishfulness voters here appended to the public hospital proffered by then-candidate Engr. Ferdinand “Dinan” Labung turned into a “puede pala” realization within his first 100 days in the mayoralty. Labung’s personal donation of land in Barangay San Bartolome has set the ball rolling for the construction of […]
Quickie Arrey
“AYAW NIYANG makasagabal at ayaw niyang maging distraction ito dahil alam niyang napakabigat na kailangan nating gawin at siya ay nag-tender ng irrevocable resignation at tinanggap ko na.” So announced Public Works Secretary Vince Dizon of Undersecretary Arrey Perez’s resignation on Friday, Oct. 17, in the face of allegations linking his underling to contractors. “Undersecretary […]
The private-public contradiction of BM Estelito, aka Shiwen, Lim
RES IPSA LOQUITUR. Then-aspiring board member Estelito aka Shiwen Lim in a public display of his COC. File photo of SunStar-Pampanga. EMBROILED IN legal entanglements ranging from a garnishment order and sum of money writ to a case of large scale estafa and more reportedly coming, Pampanga 3rd District board member Estelito P. Lim alias Shiwen Lim […]
Pampanga Delta Bridge ghosted?
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – Project billboards photographed near the vicinity of the nearly-six-years-in-the-making Pampanga Delta Bridge in Barangay Bebe Anac, Masantol, Pampanga showed two separate contracts. (Photograb from Cabalen Macabebe Pampanga FB page) The older one indicated the contractors as J.H. Pajara Construction/ Eddmari Construction and Trading; timeline of construction from Oct. 16, 2019 […]
Cruzada perpetua
“AQUI EN la Pampanga hay mucha piedad pero poca caridad.” It has been seventy-three years, this 2025, since that lamentation over the “wealth in piety but poverty in charity” expressed by Bishop Cesar Ma. Guerrero, the first to occupy the bishopric of San Fernando, noting “the stark class differences between the rich and the poor, […]