Rice, please! It could not have happened at a worse time. The reported withdrawal of funding support by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) from the proposed P2.5 billion irrigation component of the San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam project comes as a major blow in light of the pressing and…
The Urdaneta template By Ermin F. Garcia Jr. With Urdaneta’s City Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. at the helm, Urdanetans will undoubtedly be one of the more fortunate Pinoys who will never have to go hungry in the face of a food crisis. The city’s Tulungan sa Purok, a food production…
‘Fests of the North’, city’s ‘grandest’ By Gerry Garcia THE “Festivals of the North”, virtually a grand cultural event into which the Dagupan Bangus Festival, under the leadership of the city’s first lady vice mayor ever, Belen Fernandez, has expanded were overwhelmingly impressive in the number of crowds and commuters…
Is GMA giving Benjie a Cabinet post? By Jun Velasco THAT was a brotherly act by Dr. Salvador “Ado” Duque proposing reconciliation between President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and former Speaker Joe de Venecia. He thinks the rift was childish because it began with their kids, Luli, Mikey, and Dato Arroyo…
Lessons of Myanmar By Gonzalo Duque IT’S shocking that a very young man known for his amiability, industry and “workaholism” would die at a tender age. Reggie Ubando, 40, who until lately, was in charge of the city’s waste management, succumbed to cardiac arrest while Dagupan was in the midst…
Do you know the way to Baguio? By Al S. Mendoza I WAS in Baguio only a while back and guess what I saw: A totally altered traffic in the City of Pines. Has Mayor Bautista become a sudden fan of Bayani Fernando? Fernando is that favorite bloke of Ate…
NSIC releases 2 hybrid rice varieties By Sosimo Ma. Pablico THE NATIONAL SEED INDUSTRY COUNCIL (NSIC) has again released for commercial planting two hybrid rice varieties bred by private seed companies but developed with the national Rice Varietal Improvement Group (RVIG) led by PhilRice (Philippine Rice Research Institute). The new…
Resign By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. There are not only many individuals but also a good number of organizations that have been all saying the same thing by words and statements, through placards and effigies, by way of rallies and marches: “Resign!” Needless to say, all these verbal, written…
Adopting buro By Glaiza Bernadeth Pinto It was April 1997… I still remember that month as if it was only yesterday. We arrived in the town of Alcala from Mambusao, Roxas City in the Visayas. It was summertime then but it seemed to be the beginning of the season of…
Re-evaluating our values (Conclusion) By Emmanuelle Not to be confused with its numerical successors, the first EDSA revolution will always remain a phenomenon in the perception of the international community. The personal experience, however, had awakened us Filipinos to the surprise that the values we had looked for, or…
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