The PNP vs. guns-for-hire industry More blood has been shed this week, this time in the coastal town of San Fabian, less than a month after the spillin San Carlos City. The victims and the circumstances of the slaying are chillingly similar: both victims were lawyers, still at the prime…
Honesty not the best policy The proposal to postpone the scheduled barangay election on October 29 has brought to the fore a major ill in the country’s systemof governance – patronage politics. We’ve all known about this for a long time now, this “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”…
Jail the pusher, save the user ILLEGAL drugs have long been a menace to our society. Particularly lethal have been the modern-day synthetic variety, the most popular of which is the methamphetamine hydrochloride or more commonly known for its street name “shabu”, because of their easy production, proliferation and affordability….
Ending the Flooding Most of the past week has been sun-shiny once again, hot and humid actually some of the days with temperatures back at summer levels of above 30 degrees centigrade. But the dry weather is a very welcome respite following almost two previous weeks of incessant rains and…
Potent brew Cattle rustlers have long been a bane to our farmers. Earlier this year, farmers in barangays Darawey and Macayocayo in Bayambang, one of the areas most often hit by the farm animal thieves, even had to resort to the use of the kung-kung, a native gong made from…
Back in the Limelight Jueteng has once again become the burning issue of the day. As much-needed rain quenched the parched earth during the week, sizzling words gushed out from the powers that be over this undying illegal numbers game following national media attention singling out Pangasinan as one of…
Tough times for our farmers Agriculture chief Arthur Yap has assured Pangasinan farmers that the very dry and very hot weather we’ve been enduring the past weeks is no cause for great alarm. It’s supposed to be just a prolonged dry season, not a drought similar to the one being…
Promises, Promises “It will be done.” These were the intense concluding words of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in her State of the Nation Address after mentioning that House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr. and Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza have requested her to build an airport in the hometown of the…
Silent hero A round of applause – no, a standing ovation, please – for a citizen of Dagupan named Edward Santos for rising up to the call for vigilance. This man, a resident of Bonuan Boquig, concretely acted upon what majority of the general public prefer to just chat about…
Sense of security resident Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is bent on putting into effect the Human Security Act (HSA) beginning today amidst calls for deferment and clarifications from various sectors in society. The administration dubs the implementation of the highly controversial law as an investment in peace and order. Press Secretary Ignacio…
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