Restore Oplan Tokhang here By Ermin Garcia Jr. IT is encouraging to see P/Colonel Redrico Maranan, acting PNP provincial director, moving deliberately and surely on the war on drugs in Pangasinan. His surprise order for PNP personnel from the town to the provincial level to take drug tests was in fact long overdue at the […]
Opinion
Playing with Fire
Treating a thin senior citizen badly By Gonzalo Duque SINCE I lost weight last year, I thought all the time that it is an advantage to have conquered the scales and be seen as young and blooming again, but getting thinner also has its own disadvantages. This was my experience in Mangaldan during the concert of […]
General Admission
Fake as the ‘branded’ in Greenhills By Al S. Mendoza THIEVERY in government happens because of crooks it endlessly harbors. Crooks come in many forms. They are heads of agencies or any branch of government. They are government employees from the top down to the rank-and-file. They know the law like the palm of their […]
G Spot
The past and the volatile current By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – Great Gatsby SOME try to recapture the past especially if it brings back memories of love, especially love that was interrupted in between. Some want to recapture it to right […]
Feelings
Dancing with my darling By Jing Villamil THIS story was passed down three generations. She did not know what woke her. It must have been the whoosh of the wind from the open windows, the swishing of the silk curtains, or just old floors creaking. Whatever . . . from the depth of sleep she […]
Sports Eye
Warriors refuse to die in Game 5 By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “ALL points are important to me from the first to the last even though I’m losing, I’m never going to let go,” said half-Filipina, half-Ecuadorian Leylah Annie Fernandez after winning the French Open junior girls championship in Paris last weekend. And that’s exactly […]
Learnings in Life
By: 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. Appreciation of Hard WorkAuthor Unknown ONE young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company. He passed the first interview, the director did the last […]
Random Thoughts
Guv Pogi’s order to Maranan By Leonardo Micua IN a talk to newsmen after the flag-raising ceremony last June 3 at the Capitol Plaza, Gov. Amado ‘Pogi’ Espino said his first marching order to new police provincial director P/Col. Redrico Maranan in their very first informal meeting a week before: “Establish order”. Col. Maranan, a no non-sense police […]
Punchline
Bikoy vs. Fr. Soc By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE surprise turnaround of Peter Joemel Advincula, alias Bikoy certainly has most if not all the outspoken detractors of President Duterte on the defensive mode. Who wouldn’t? After all they were being linked to an illegal activity that can end up in their being charged for sedition […]
Playing with Fire
Autonomous status for LNU By Gonzalo Duque WE at Lyceum Northwestern University are hoping and praying that we would be granted autonomous status by the Commission on Higher Education (CHEd) soon. This would certainly be a big boon to us, our faculty members and our students. It will be a testimony to our unrelenting efforts […]