Pork barrel in lieu of CCTV cameras By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE importance of the CCTV in solving crimes is again highlighted in the case of retired police general Marlou Chan’s ambush. Guns-for-hire practically become invisible without the CCTV cameras. Fortunately, initial recovered footages caught images of the suspects. But this will hardly be the […]
Opinion
General Admission
Duterte girding for war vs water concessionaires By Al S. Mendoza PRESIDENT Duterte seems determined to engage into “war” the owners of Maynilad Water Services and Manila Water Co. He has drafted a contract to renew the agreements giving both companies the right again to sell/distribute water to the 16 million residents of Metro Manila. […]
G Spot
The US-Iran Conflict: What it means to the Philippines By Virginia J. Pasalo ACCORDING to available data, the armed conflict of Iran and the US started sometime in 1988, when “the United States launched Operation Praying Mantis against Iran, claiming that it was retaliation for the Iranian mining of areas of the Persian Gulf as […]
Learnings in Life
The Farmer By Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read on Facebook in Demic page that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. Author Unknown UP on the mountain, a poor farmer and his wife were struggling to survive. So the farmer decided to leave home to find a better […]
Sports Eye
Battles for the fifth and last slot By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER the long break for the holiday season, hostilities in the 4th Governor’s Cup Pangasinan Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament resumed on January 11. This is still not the next round among the four teams in each conference group (Central, Western, Eastern) that officially qualified […]
Random Thoughts
Another proof on MacArthur landing By Leonardo Micua SECOND District Board Member Liberato Villegas, now on his third term of office, rejoiced over the claim of University of the Philippines professor, Ricardo T. Jose, that General Douglas Mac Arthur first landed in his hometown of San Fabian and not in Dagupan or Lingayen as many Pangasinan […]
Feelings
There got to be a law! By Jing Villamil AN hour before the “reunionists” arrive for lunch, the house is smelling clean and fresh, thanks to the wide-open but screened windows, pine-scented freshener and days of vigorous, hand-numbing scouring, scrubbing, sweeping, washing, airing, arranging, re-arranging. It smells cloyingly yummy, too. The rainbow cake awaits for […]
Punchline
“Shared Responsibility” in protection racket? By Ermin Garcia Jr. SOMETHING was amiss in the enforcement of the firecracker law and executive order of President Duterte. Notwithstanding the ban and intensified campaign in media vs. illegal firecrackers, there was still obviously ample supply of deadly banned firecrackers manufactured in various barangays prepared for the New Year […]
General Admission
History is on Trump’s side By Al S. Mendoza DONALD Trump was impeached last December 18. He becomes only the third President of the United States to suffer that fate. The first was Andrew Johnson getting axed 151 years ago in 1868, followed by Bill Clinton in 1998. But impeachment does not kick the President […]
G Spot
2020 By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ON New Year’s Day, my brother-in-law Jojo and his daughter Jam brought me with them to visit a lot their family purchased eight years ago at Amiya Raya Highland Homes adjacent to Banyan Ridge at Timberland Heights by Filinvest in San Mateo, Rizal. It was a panoramic view at the […]