We remember Martin Luther King Jr. By Jun Velasco “Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that,” Martin Luther King Jr. THERE’s this guy who is hooked in illegal activities–jueteng, fishpens, gambling, etc.– who does not see the point why we have laws. Could this be…
Restore the old Dagupan seal! By Gonzalo Duque DAGUPAN’S respected artist Alex Villaflor, a former Jaycees Inc. president, was mumbling to us, while we were in a National Culture and Arts Commission orientation seminar last week that it was utterly wrong for the past city administration to change the…
Defining smuggling, stealing By Al S. Mendoza IS there rice smuggling really? If we listened on radio or watched on TV the past Senate hearings investigating alleged rice smuggling, it would seem none. And yet, before the probes, it’s been reported that the government has been losing an average…
Another Colombia? By Bebot Villar MAY kakilala tayong politiko ang nagsasabi if we really want to stay on top the illegal drug problem ,we need to improve our intelligence networking especially with the Interpol so we can have the watchlist of foreign nationals engaged in drug cartel!
CBCP Pastoral Exhortation on Philippine Economy (1998) By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD Recommendations for Confronting the Situation “Considering that the socio-economic plus political realities in the Philippines are distinctly far from the stipulations of truth, justice, and peace… it is definitely neither surprising nor incredible the CBCP Recommendations for confronting…
Pangasinan’s formidable three? By Jesus A. Garcia WHILE I’m making this piece (Friday, Feb. 7), the sixth stage of the 2014 Ronda Pilipinas was just finished. The 153-kilometer flat and mountain trek from Lucena City to Antipolo City in Rizal province was won by a foreigner named Peter Pouly of…
Serving the bosses By Johanne Margarette R. Macob WHO would forget this line: “Kayo ang boss ko.” The President couldn’t have emphasized more that his constituents are his, or the government’s, bosses. However, this still does not hold true particularly for many in remote areas, they who do not receive…
Build Cities to Survive Storms By Crispin C. Maslog AS the Philippines slowly recovers from the knockout punch from Super Typhoon Yolanda, described as the world’s most powerful typhoon ever to make landfall, there should be no more debate on whether global warming is here.
NEW ISLAND—After years of abuse and neglect of Dagupan City’s rivers by the city government, an island like mound of silt now surfaces at the Calmay River during low tide. The heavy siltation in the city’s rivers, caused largely by the unregulated operation of fish pens for more than a…
RANJIT GOES TO COURT URDANETA CITY—Stop the increase! This was the appeal made before the court as a petition for injunction with temporary restraining order (TRO) and/or preliminary injunction was filed against the Pangasinan III Electric Cooperative (Panelco III) that implemented a P5.63 per kilowatt hour (KWH) rate hike in…
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