Real crisis, no real solutions Looking at the numbers being pronounced by various officials on the farm output plus volume of supply that are available on stock and being shipped in from Vietnam through Poro Point in neighboring La Union, we can rest easy that there won’t be any rice…
Keystone firemen in the city By Ermin F. Garcia Jr. The news item about the discovery of Dagupan’s gallant firemen and fire volunteer brigades that the specifications of the city’s water hydrants are not compatible with their equipment is another sad commentary of how governance works around here. Nostalgic images…
PUNCH linking Dagupan to Florida, USA By Gerry Garcia MORE than half a century has elapsed since two long lost friends, this writer and the son of the late father-founder of the University of Pangasinan, Blas D. Rayos, Jr., separated ways following graduation from the University of Santo Tomas in…
Bless them who save poor people’s vision By Jun Velasco YOU’d mistake him for a retired movie actor ala Edmund Purdom or Gary Grant, this tall and handsome ophthalmologist who has under his care thousands of patients suffering from eye diseases in San Fabian, Pangasinan. Dr. Guillermo de Venecia, 76,…
Dr. Lucio Tan in town By Gonzalo Duque ZAMBOANGA CITY — This lovely city reminds us of our grade school song. ‘Don’t you go, don’t you go to far Zamboanga…” but we went, and here we are. But we were not here for fun. We were here to co-preside over…
Marquez mars Manny’s day By Al S. Mendoza MANNY Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez recently showed the other side of their lives. Pacquiao is humble, Marquez rude. Interviewed on TV by ABS-CBN on April 6 during the “Invasion: The Philippines vs The World” boxing card at the Araneta Coliseum, both…
Public investments needed in improving rice productivity: I By Sosimo Ma. Pablico The message of all this arithmetic is clear. Without investments in improving rice productivity and efforts to manage the denominator of the rice-population equation, along with a focus on local-level potentials for growth, we will have to “run…
Pangasinan athletes shine again By Jesus A. Garcia THE five-day Tour de East Java bicycle marathon where our local boys participated was concluded last Sunday and our all-Pangasinense squad representing the Philippines landed fifth out of 22 teams from different countries in Asia including the host Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Iran,…
Republic of shortages By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. This country is now a land of big and shameful shortages. First, there were shortages of fertilizers, ballot boxes as well as votes. Then, there were shortages of commissions, “bukols” or “longpats”. Now, there are shortages of rice, pigs and irrigation…
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