Wanted: The farmers’ champion By Ermin Garcia Jr. IT is heartening to learn that Fourth District’s Cong Toff de V has refiled his Magna Carta for Young Farmers in the 18th Congress which was unacted on in the previous Congress. Perhaps, the bill may never be passed because the intended…
Payback time for Acosta, Erfe By Gonzalo Duque I just arrived from San Francisco, CA where I had an enjoyable time with Ex-Mayor Jose “Bogs” Esteves of Milpitas City, our kabaleyan, who invited the media in the West Coast to interview me. I suddenly became a very popular figure because of my…
Pacquiao to win by KO between 5-9 rounds By Al S. Mendoza AGAIN, time to make a prediction. It’s a job that I have to face from time to time. Part of the territory. I should not have been a columnist, dealing mainly on sports, if I would avoid this…
The endless PH sports woes By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE are just over four months away from hosting the 30th Southeast Asia Games this year but until now our national governing sports bodies, the Philippine Olympic Committee’ and Philippines Sports commission’s (POC) power squabble continue. Worse, another tarnishing image…
By: Dr. Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in a page on www.moralstories.org. I’d like to share, something we can all learn from. The Praying HandsAuthor Unknown Back in the fifteenth century, in a tiny village near Nuremberg, lived a family with eighteen children. Eighteen! In order merely…
Teaching Thurman a lesson By Leonardo Micua NO doubt, all Filipinos are glued to their seats today in front of their TV sets to watch the epic battle in Las Vegas, Nevada between our own fighting Senator Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao against the undefeated super welterweight champion, the trash-talking Keith Thurman….
Gone too soon By Jing Villamil WE do not bury our children. They bury us. This is how things are supposed to go. Fetus, neonate, infant, toddler, pre-school, almost unending school-age, adults thereafter. Life lived to the full. For us older folks, when the sun had risen for the last…
MORE RAIN PLEASE! — Farmers in Mangatarem hurriedly plant palay after rains fell on their rainfed rice farm. (Contributed by Art Valenzuela)
TO COUNTER EL NINO LINGAYEN–The agriculture sector in Pangasinan welcomed the monsoon rains intensified by Typhoon “Falcon” as timely because it’s planting season. This was conveyed by Provincial Agriculturist Dalisay Moya during the “Talakayan sa Kapitolyo” program on July 16 as she pointed out that to date, only 87,000 hectares or 47…
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