DAGUPAN CITY–Lingayen-Dagupan
Archbishop Oscar Cruz advised the government to leave sex education to the parents of the students.

Cruz said "Sex education especially with its human dimension and moral
consideration are better left to the parents of the students-the father and
the mother themselves giving formational sex education to their boy and girl
children respectively".

He added that it is incongruous to expect a lady teacher to handle sex
education for boy and girl students in the same classroom at the same time.
This is especially true for gentlemen teachers, he said.

The prelate said that if the government really wants sex education for the
school children, it should give its modules instead to their parents, and let
them do the task which is proper of them.

"After all they should be the first and best teachers of their own children
in such fundamental matter as human sexuality," he said.

Cruz said the present administration appears to have a twisted sense of
priorities, citing in particular in the field of education.

He noted that contrary to the enchanted view of the national leadership, the
educational condition in the country is appalling.

He cited the dire lack of classrooms where he said libraries and laboratories, bodegas and even comfort rooms are converted into classrooms.

Yet, he said, still, such pitiful conversions are not enough to accommodate
students and make them learn. The result is disturbing: functional illiteracy
of students by the millions, he said.

Cruz also noted that there is lack of teachers with their lack of incentives
and lack of updating.He added to the list the lack of books, the lack of
school equipment, the lack of teaching materials.

"The over-all result of this pitiful situation is predictable: a fast
deteriorating education in the Philippines as already noted by foreign
agencies," he said.

Cruz said,"But lo and behold the response of the government to all the above
negative educational factors in the country: sex education for the school
children!"

"One wonders where the administration gets its distorted ideas. The problem:
the school children are not learning. The solution: give them sex
education!," Cruz said.

He said that there is a whale of a difference between pure and bare sex and
properly human sexuality. Sex per se does not even need to be taught, he
said.

He said that even animals know the “what” and the “how” of sex. Human
sexuality however is definitely much more than a matter of sex organs and
functions, sex engagements and its results, he said.

The humanity of sex already enters the sphere of values and morals which are
beyond sex drawings and physical demonstrations no matter how detailed and
concrete these be, he said.–Eva Visperas

DAGUPAN CITY—Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan has re-opened on June 20, a special day here being the Agew na Dagupan (Dagupan Day), as it promises a better news reportage and commentaries with experienced broadcasters joining its reportorial team.

Gabriel “Ging” Cardinoza,, the station manager, said their radio station takes the 1161 khz frequency previously used by the defunct dwCM and dzRH Dagupan. The station is located at Galvan st. here.

He said that Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan is registered at the National Telecommunications as dwCM. The station is now under Bagong Sibol Broadcast Marketing Corporation, a business partner of Manila Broadcasting Company which owns the dwCM franchise..

Congressional Spouses Foundation Inc. president Georgina de Venecia, wife of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr whose congressional district covers this city, was invited to cut the ribbon in a simple inauguration ceremony.

Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, a media supporter and himself a good news source for his no-nonsense commentaries against graft and corruption especially on illegal gambling, will do the blessing of the studio and its facilities.

Aside from Cardinoza who also came from Radyo ng Bayan Dagupan, veteran broadcasters Minnie Caburnay and Joseph Bacani formerly of Bombo Radyo Dagupan, Violy Ferrer formerly of Super Radyo Dagupan, Susan Yadao of then dwDW and dwPR, Freddie Fajardo, Ilet Breguera, and Rudy Estrada of then dzRH Dagupan, as well as , “Star”, Joven Siapno and Rene Palisoc form part of the respected news team as anchors of news and commentary programs of the station.

Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan is the sixth AM radio station based and operating in this city.

CALASIAO, Pangasinan—House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. said “senators are playing martyrs” on the proposed Charter change (Chacha).

De Venecia, proponent of the shift from presidential to parliamentary form of government, said the abolition is both the Senate and the House of Representatives as there will be one unicameral House parliament once Chacha is made.

Senators and congressmen are deadlocked on Cha-cha. Senators want that any amendment to the Constitution should be approved by the Senate and the House voting separately, with each chamber mustering a vote of three-fourths of all its members. But congressmen insist on their assertion that the two chambers should vote as one.

De Venecia said,” How can you have a Constituent Assembly voting separately? They will never have ¾ of the Senate”.

He added that “the senators refused to budge”.
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DAGUPAN CITY—Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz said the report that jueteng witness Boy Mayor has returned to his old way as operator of this illegal numbers’ game is “one of the biggest jokes I received this week”.

Cruz, chairman of Krusada ng Bayan Laban sa Sugal (KBLS) told this writer that Mayor, who remains under his care after he testified during the Senate jueteng probe, tells him where he is everyday.

Yesterday, Cruz said Mayor told him he was in Bicol.

The prelate added that in one of their meetings last week, Mayor, also a member of the board of director of KBLS, told the board two things:

One, that he had been receiving a number of death threats and, two, that he has been receiving offers from different jueteng operators.

On Mayor’s death threats, Cruz said he himself acted on them by telling the source to stop threatening his ward.

Mayor also told Cruz that he was offered P550,000 a month just to keep silent.

But Cruz said Mayor just laughed this off.

When Mayor was still the operator of jueteng in Pangasinan, Cruz said based on Mayor’s revelation, he was getting a total daily gross collection of P8million where prizes, payolas and salaries of employees have to be taken from.

Cruz said the report about Mayor turning his back on Cruz’ crusade against jueteng is “just a ploy to destroy him”.

“Magandang palabas yan (That’s a good show), Cruz said sarcastically.

But is it a deal, or no deal?, Cruz said, “It’s no deal as far as Boy is
concerned”.—

ALCALA, Pangasinan—It was like a scene in an action movie when about six-hour heavy firefight between armed men and the combined forces of police and military ensued in barangay Pindangan Centro here Thursday resulting in the killing of two suspects and wounding of another person as well as confiscation of high- powered firearms.

Chief Inspector Lenbell Fabia, the town police chief, told this writer in an interview that the 71st Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army, and the police from nearby Sto. Tomas town and the local police fought it out with a group of armed men who were fired upon by the suspects while they were patrolling in the area around 9:00 a.m.

“Parang giyera (It was like war),” Fabia said as he described the encounter that happened along the wide farmland about five kilometers away from the town proper.

The presence of the police and the military in the area was due to a report they received about the presence of armed men who were allegedly doing indiscriminate firing to threaten their rival group.
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