A ‘superman’ in our midst By Gonzalo Duque WE were simply glad, awed, too, we met anew our old and durable friend, Attorney Reynaldo A. Villar, older brother of newsmaker non pareil Presidential Anti Smuggling Group chief Bebot Villar at the birthday party of the congresswoman wife of Congresswoman Naid…
You say it’s your birthday By Al S. Mendoza (HAPPY birthday to Ilak M. Sadiwa, who turns one year old today. He is the son of Ricky and Ayapot and the brother of Mayasoh. To Mayor Teddy Cruz of Mangatarem, too, who celebrates on April 27. Cheers!) * * *…
General Admission
Broiler production increases with 2 veterinary products By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico TOP BROILER contract growers in Pampanga and Pangasinan are pointing to two veterinary products as having played a key role in their being top producers of a big time broiler contract growing integrator. The contract growers – Enrique…
Harvest Time
Financial crisis and Filipino resiliency By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. It would be unrealistic to claim that there was ever a time when the Philippines wallowed in opulence or abundance, when the Filipinos had all that progress and development could give. The truth is rather this Country and its…
Viewpoints
Tour of Luzon returns By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IT was the year 1976 when the last Tour of Luzon was held, a multi-stage bicycle road race held annually under the intellectual property ownership of the late Atty. Geruncio Lacuesta. A son of a fisherman named Modesto F. Bonzo from…
Sports Eye
Shallow bliss By Marifi Jara COMING home from a far less developed country, where infrastructure is so poor, feels like stepping back into paradise. From the airport, my brother drove us through the Pampanga-Tarlac segment of the new Subic-Clark expressway (all the while hailing how great it is). While that…
Roots
RIFT OVER BAGUL WORSENS THE word war between the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the City Prosecutors Office in Dagupan has escalated with the former insinuating that money changed hands when the latter resolved to release arrested drug lord Datu Michael Bagul. In the complaint filed by PDEA before…
PDEA, prosecutors trade bribery raps
WITH the huge crowd that mobbed the opening of the Dagupan Bangus Festival on April 15, the presence of the second highest official of Timor Leste and his family who joined the celebration was hardly noticed. But those at home watching the live coverage of the festival’s opening on cable…
Timor Leste’s 2nd top official enjoys Dagupan’s Bangus Fest
THREE Chinese companies have qualified to bid for the construction of the P4.5-billion re-regulating pond of the San Roque Multi-purpose Dam project in San Manuel town. The project, which will irrigate an additional 70,000 hectares of rice farms in the provinces of Pangasinan, Tarlac and Nueva Ecija, will be financed…