Ronaldo Castanaga 24 Dec 2008 The PNP provincial command under Dir. Barba is crippled and lacks the ability to solve the Rosueller murder case. It’s been dragging for too long building a case, no leads but cartographic of suspects. We need a hard- charging PNP director to track down the…
Bernard Diaz 24 Dec 2008 Seeing politics in my beloved country, as a full blooded Filipino, I feel hurt by what our political technocrats doing. Their main concern is to enrich themselves at the expense of 85million Filipinos. As we compare our country to some Asean member countries, our country…
Political will, not just prayers
GILBERTO ERFE GARCIA (December 20, 1925 – December 22, 2008) Peacefully joined our Creator at the age of 83. His loving wife, Susana, children Gina and Ralph de Guzman, Gilberto Jr. and Doris Joy Caracas, Peewee, Malou and Noel Corpuz; grandchildren Maita, Alberto and Alyana; brothers Ruben and Gerardo; and…
GILBERTO ERFE GARCIA
Eduardo Pontaoe 25 Dec 2008 Not to be outdone, the Taiwanese bangus producers are going high-tech in going head to head with the competition. Competitions coming from Thailand, Vietnam, and the King Kong of ’em all . . . the ballyhooed Bonuan bangus magicians. Is it the soil or the…
Taiwan’s high-tech bangus
Eduardo Pontaoe 24 Dec 2008 Abraham Lincoln . . . a trapo Jun Velasco? Abayag calan driver na jeep agmo cabat ya anggad natan ira’y pasaheros mo! Abe was a master politician. An innovator. Look at the members of his cabinet, a mixture of republicans and democrats with varying opinions….
Lincoln not a trapo
Jeremias Andrade Carrera 24 Dec 2008 The PCE’s extraordinary praise for JDV who had admitted that he was a witness of numerous corruption activities under the GMA administration while he was the Speaker and is only telling us after his unceremonious removal from power, is not expected to come from…
Journalism for sale?
Eduardo Pontaoe 23 Dec 2008 This ATOTbiography of JDV is full of . . . balderdash. Who will buy this book hardcover at $27.95 dollars a pop? You must be out of your freakin’ mind to buy one! Like I said before it went out the presses, a book not…
Different title for JDV book
Gilbert E. Garcia, 83, passed away peacefully on December 22. Garcia, youngest brother of the late Ermin Garcia Sr. and PUNCH columnist Gerardo Garcia, was the PUNCH’s chief news photographer from the mid-60s to early 80s. A graduate of cinema photography in the US, joined the US Navy in the…
Gilbert, ex-PUNCH photojournalist, writes 30
For visiting us and being with us in our time of sorrow … For praying with us and for us … For the Mass cards and messages of sympathy and condolences … For the beautiful flowers to express compassion… For joining us in our nightly vigils … For attending the…
Message of Thanks from Balingit Family
Ronaldo Castanaga 23 Dec 2008 I bought a Taiwan-grown bangus labeled and packaged as ‘Bangus’. In all respects, the Taiwan ‘Bangus’ appeared wide- bodied chubby looking fish exactly as our real Bonuan ‘Bangus’. I cooked it with tamarind broth sinigang but the taste, to my dismay, is disgustingly different. Not…