Beware! The Bangsamoro Basic Law   THE series of hearings and deliberations on the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law will start this week at the Senate. Here are some issues that will likely be considered as contentious but crucial and vital to the consideration of the measure, never mind that the…

EASTER MESSAGE Endless frustrations, infinite hope! EASTER is the greatest and most important feast of our faith. If Christ did not rise from the dead, our faith is irrelevant and meaningless, dry and dead. Easter beckons us to go beyond the customary greetings and feasting. We must continue the mission…

Farmers’ woes   THE province’s onion and rice farmers have become a distressed sector overnight, what with the dumping of farmgate prices of their produce. And if buying prices, particularly of onions, which were already way below production costs, were not bad enough, the onions are now being left to…

Praiseworthy initiative THE Dagupan City government outdid expectations of the city populace anew when it convinced the Dagupan Doctors Villaflor Memorial Hospital (DDVMH) to do what was unthinkable – to adopt the “No billing” policy of government by partnering with the city government and PhilHealth. As the PhilHealth official said during the signing…

All out war vs drug-dealing politicos WE note that th anti-illegal drug campaign in the province is not as intense or concerted as the provincial and town police stations want to make it appear. This is not to belittle their efforts in arresting suspected drug peddlers in the streets because…