Calasiao Administrator Vivencio L. Vallo was all praised to Dagupan City Mayor Benjie S. Lim’s three spruced-up floating platforms.
“Those river cruisers at Loboc in Bohol would be shamed compared to what you got in Dagupan (City),” he emphatically told me.
He said local and international tourists would be breathless seeing the majestic’s mangroves and bird nest along the pristine river banks that hold the tranquil breathtaking clean Dawel-Watak river.
“Benjie hits a gold mine on his river cruise projects!”
The comparative advantage of Dagupan to Bohol he said is the delectable salacious Bonuan Bangus the city can offer at those restaurants on top of two large outrigger boats which are joined together.
“Tourists can be treated to fish pens how milkfish and others aquatic resources are harvested, “ he explained.
City Administrator Vlad Mata told me recently that a private consortium mulls to put a zip line to complement Benjie’s fancies.
"It’s a new product, and if pushed through, will be a very profitable enterprise," Region I Tourism Director Martin Valera quipped recently. "You can come up with noble approaches. Puwede ninyong i-timing sa gabi, sunset cruise, morning cruise for bird watching – ang daming possibilities.”
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Mata also told me that the mammoth crowd that joined the recent Gilon-Gilon (Street Dance) reached up to 450 thousands.
He said similar number of people joined the famous “Kalutan ed Dalan” in April 31, 2011 where ten bands entertained the wide-eyed spectators.
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Buzzes I received lately:
One, there was a rumour lately among powerful clichés in Manila that former President Gloria Arroyo, hubby Mike, and congressman- son Mikey have left the Philippines for Dominican Republic due to the resignation of ally Ombusman Merceditas Gutierrez.
This buzzed could not be far-fetched.
Without Guitierrez, the second line of defence of Gloria to avoid that dread“ kasalukuyang naghihimas ng malamig na bakal ng kulungan” would be the justices in the Supreme Court who are indebted to her when she appointed them.
But these magistrates would abandon her, too, by rejecting an appeal of his lawyer to the resolution of probable cause of the Ombudsman for the Sandiganbayan to lock her in jail without bail in a long tedious protracted legal battle.
These justices would play prudence by avoiding public uproar. Otherwise, the members of the House of Representatives who are aligned with President Benigno Aquino III would launch another Article of Impeachment against them.
Despite the political alignments of our senators, most of them would vote for the impeachment of these justices when the Article concludes its deliberation in that August Body.
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Insider at the122-strong League of Cities of Philippines told me that its members were furious.
One, the high court flipped flopped for the 3rd time. They said that the court has already resolved with finality that the 16 towns could not be a city because their bid was unconstitutional as it anchored on class legislation for one.
Two, the veracity of the report that the reason for the flipped-flopped was each of the city did not give P5 Million to some people up there.
Remember that the inclusion of the 16 municipalities would deprive cities like Alaminos, Dagupan, and Makati by P13 Million, P18 Million, and P100 million, respectively.
Three, the April 12, 2011 rejection of the Court of the Motion for Reconsideration (MR) of the LCP to reverse the favourable decision for those towns made some mayors livid. Some of them mull to file through their congressmen an Article of Impeachment against the justices.
Would the Court favour the second MR of the LCP because of these threats?
Or would the court rejects it anew otherwise it faces an impeachment bid against the members of the 16 towns that were rejoicing nowadays because they would be earning four-folds of the Internal Revenue Allotment they used to receive with-out lifting an effort?
(You can read my previous columns at http://dagupenosnews.blogspot.com/)
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