Cesar T. Quiambao: ‘I have returned!’ By Jun Velasco STRANGE how a sizable section in our fabled isles shamelessly posture itself as self-righteous, lumping all demonic adjectives to the vanquished after the Supreme Court “dumped” (ibinasura) Sigaw ng Bayan’s People’s Initiative platform. Why can’t they be like the proverbial boxing…
The private schools’ concern By Gonzalo Duque OUR unceasing efforts and prayers have paid off. I am referring to what began as a lonely war which we waged, together with University of Luzon’s president, Dr. Macky Samson, and officers of the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU) to correct…
Playing with Fire
No shortage of critics By Al S. Mendoza THERE ARE no bragging rights this time. I was right in the sense that in the case at hand, things really happen all the time. This world has no shortage of critics, oppositionists. They’d always sprout like mushrooms anytime of the…
General Admission
It was worth the long wait! By Eva C. Visperas It was a great birthday gift he received but above all, it was a dream come true for Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil who finally got the much-coveted post as Philippine National Police’s Ilocos Regional Director. Bataoil, now 53 having turned…
Business Log
Tungro-resistant Matatag rice varieties By Sosimo Ma. Pablico THE tungro virus disease is a very serious pest of rice such that it can cause heavy damages on standing rice crops. It is transmitted by green leafhoppers as they feed on the rice plants. That is if the insects have been…
Harvest Time
Judicial stature By + Oscar V. Cruz D.D. It is not a secret that the present administration has a low judicial standing. This is well shown by the number of times the Supreme Court decidedly quashed its many attempts to arrogate power beyond its competence. It is somehow funny that…
Viewpoints
MALASIQUI SHOOTFEST– Malasiqui Mayor Alfonso Soriano (second from left) prepares to fire his pistol to open his own 2nd Mayor Alfonso V. Soriano Cup Invitational Shootfest. With him are the other participants, among them NBI provincial chief Jose Doloiras, NBI Regional director Atty. Rustico Virgilia, Bacundo East barangay chairman Laudencio…
MALASIQUI SHOOTFEST
MILO SPORTS KARATE CHAMPIONSHIP — Members of Team YMCA-Dagupan, (left-to-right) Jona Reyes, Gerard Martin Tamayo, Fidel Reyes, and Jayson Ramil Macaalay, headed by Dr. Enrico Vasquez, take a break from competition with Milo National Karate organizer and AAK president Poncholo Veguillas at the Music Hall of SM Mall Asia.
MILO SPORTS KARATE CHAMPIONSHIP
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