Lingayen cityhood long overdue By Jun Velasco CONGRESSMAN Joe de Venecia’s debt-to-equity plan looms as a simple yet dramatic solution to the huge gap between the rich and poor countries on our planet, especially those in the Third World. On paper, the plan is doably cute, be-all solution, which can…
Let’s restore sanity in our country, please! By Gonzalo Duque IT’S great to be back! Yes, after one long month vacation in the U.S. To Sammy and Mita Sta. Maria, our gracious hosts, thanks for the warm reception and the memories! Some of the good Fil-Ams we stayed with there…
The swim suit of Kuya Leonie By Al S. Mendoza FIRST, he sends me a text message from Los Angeles, California. “I am arriving tomorrow on board a Korean Air jet,” he says. “Hope to see you immediately upon my arrival.” “C yah when I C yah!” Next day, he…
Organic Agriculture and Certification now pushed By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Two years after Executive Order 481 was signed and declared that it is a national policy to promote organic agriculture nationwide, the Department of Agriculture, through the Bureau of Soils and Water Management (BSWM), now appears to be all out…
First time By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE first time a multi-stage bicycle road race was held in the country was in 1955. That was the Manila-Vigan run won by Sta. Rosa, Laguna son Antonio Arzala. That event, organized by the late Atty. Geruncio Lacuesta, a native of Bayambang, also…
Between here and there . . . (Part 3) By Emmanuelle are moments so exquisite, so intense that though they remain unphotographed, unrecorded, they might as well had been. The prints they carved in our memory scoured full and deep. In one of her brakes-and-stops, Manta suddenly realized there was…
Edener Benitez Fabella 31 Mar 2008 Now Mr. Ceralde, you had to rub it in didn’t you? I suspect I am the most senior among you since I’ve admitted early on I’ve been around since the late president Elpidio Quirino? I say this not for any other purpose…
Jose Ceralde 30 Mar 2008 Edener Benitez Fabella, Planting rice or working in the fields is never fun. Going to quite a few islands in the Pacific, I observed decades ago they were mostly independent on their food needs. With the global economic conditions of subsidies, a lot…
Isidro Ramos 30 Mar 2008 Tour de Georgia, State of Georgia, USA is having seven day cycling event on April 21-27, 2008. This cycling event is a major tune-up leading up to the Tour de France in July and will be an international participation. I wonder if Mr…
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