Hell, why the dancer instead of the attacker? By Al S. Mendoza YOU honestly believe Floyd Mayweather Jr. beat Oscar De La Hoya last Sunday, May 6? If you do, then you are the so-called only thorn among the roses. Everywhere I went moments after the fight, people would call…
Most expensive election By Eva C. Visperas The campaign for the 2007 elections has been the most expensive so far, according to Pangasinan politicians. This, as the candidates who declined to be identified, said voters have become more demanding and vote buying became the name of the game. “I never…
Business Log
Cashew nut sheller increases production By Sosimo Ma. Pablico A manually operated cashew nut sheller developed by agricultural engineers of the Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension (BPRE), which is based in the Science City of Munoz, Nueva Ecija, has made cashew nut production and processing in Limay, Bataan more…
Harvest Time
24 Pangasinan cyclists vie for Tour ’07 titles By Jesus A. Garcia THE country’s annual multi-stage bicycle road race called Tour Pilipinas was supposed to be staged before or just after the Holy Week. But the organizers postponed the summer road spectacle and decided to hold it after the election…
Sports Eye
From the rest of us WEmen By Emmanuelle This is the last issue before the May 14 election. Let me take this opportunity therefore to wish Good Luck, God Bless to my friends, skirted or in slacks, long-haired or bald, daring or dared, idealistic or idealized. . . Congressman Mark…
Feelings
Finds no Omnibus Election Law violation THE Commission on Elections, in an en banc resolution, has cleared Speaker Jose de Venecia and the Lakas Christian-Muslim Democrats (Lakas CMD) of vote-buying charges. The en banc decision was promulgated late Thursday afternoon, removing what Lakas CMD legal counsel Raul Lambino described from…
Comelec clears JdV of vote-buying rap
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz has, for the record, stressed that he is not endorsing any candidate. “I did not really endorse Mayor Lim,” Cruz told The PUNCH following a press release issued by Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim, who is running for the fourth district congressional seat, claiming that the…
Archbishop: I’m not endorsing anyone
SAN CARLOS CITY–Is the big fish lurking behind the small fry? Top-gun lawyers reportedly sent by the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) arrived last week to extend assistance to Angelito Soriano, the arrested suspect in the murder of Mayor Julian Resuello on April 28. This raised suspicion among the family…
Resuello slay suspect gets CHR help
The lawyer in the disqualification case against House Speaker Jose De Venecia has cried foul and is accusing the Commission on Election of a biased decision. Lawyer Francisco Baraan III said he will formally file an impeachment case against Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos and the Comelec commissioners who signed the…