Family and rivalry THE Sunday PUNCH condoles with the family and friends of Ramon and Zorahayda Arcinue who were killed in cold blood by a suspected hired gun on March 7. They were a couple in public service – with Ramon having once served as vice mayor of Lingayen and…

Held hostage by politics KOREAN officials must be shaking their heads in disappointment as they watch from the sidelines how ugly politics is slowly destroying the Seafood Processing Plant in Dagupan which they funded through a generous grant of P100 million. Makapabaeng. It is an embarrassment not just for the…

About accountability WE commemorate this week the anniversary of People Power, an event that earned us Filipinos the world’s salute for our peaceful but determined struggle against a 20-year dictatorship. It would be fitting to remember that one of the driving forces that brought people to EDSA in 1986 was…

Stop plagiarism THE advent of the World Wide Web has given us a new kind of freedom – access to an almost bottomless amount of information. And the introduction of search engines, the most popular of which comes in the form of www.google.com, has provided us with the power to…

Calamity watch PANGASINENSES, especially those from Dagupan, can deeply empathize with the people of Negros Oriental who are suffering now in the aftermath of a 6.8-Richter Scale magnitude earthquake that shook their province and neighboring areas last week. That earthquake’s intensity was lower than the 7.8 experienced in Luzon on…