Holy Week’s unholy observance By Jun Velasco THE week gives us a much-needed pause amidst the rat race, the political noise and haste. Are the things we are doing every day really worth it? Have we asked why we are doing what we are doing? Let’s hope the spiritual, week-long…
Nominal Christians, watch out! By Gonzalo Duque ALL Christendom pauses this week for a spiritual retreat. I wonder why we are advised to do it only once a week and annually. It should be a daily, every second of our lives activity. But alas, we are mostly nominal Christians, And…
Are you worthy or worthless? By Al S. Mendoza IN 1381, a guy named John Ball said: “From the beginning all were created equal by nature, slavery was introduced through the unjust oppression of worthless men, against the will of God; for if God had wanted to create slaves, he…
Longing for love By Eva C. Visperas His song said what he felt. The singer, a boy, expressed how it feels living without the care of his biological parents. He belongs to a group of about 10 boys who found temporary home at The Haven, Home for Street children in…
Improved brooding method makes heavier broilers, more eggs By Sosimo Ma. Pablico A Berlin-trained microbiologist has found a new method of taking care of young chicks or brooding, resulting in heavier broilers and increased eggs of layers, as well as in minimizing the obnoxious odor of chicken manure, converting it…
Easter Message By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. “The Lord is risen indeed!” (Lk 24:34) It is not a secret that our country as a whole is undergoing its own long, sad and painful passion. There is much poverty and sickness in the land. The vices of drug and gambling…
In Pichay’s defense; JDV awards golf champ By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. It’s a bag of nonsense that senatoriable Butch Pichay is being made to resign his position as national president of the Philippine Chess Federation simply because he is gunning for a senate race. I know the guy as…
Be not sad! By Emmanuelle Melancholia. Depression. The latter much worser than the former, ungrammatically on top of dramatically. This is the writer’s self-diagnosis of what regularly ails her all of the days leading to Black Saturday, starting from Ash Wednesday. Every year. All of the years of…
‘HIRED KILLER’ ARRESTED Mastermind’s identity yet to be unmasked URDANETA CITY—The slaying of a son of a city councilor here on March 5 may now have been solved, thanks to a concerned citizen here. The suspect, Vicente Simon, 31, allegedly a hired killer who shot the son of Councilor Julio…
GOODBYE Mayor Benjamin Lim. Their loyalty is now to House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr. Majority of the 31 barangay chairmen in Dagupan City who used to support Lim have now turned their backs against their mayor following his decision to run against De Venecia in the congressional race. According…
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