Pangasinenses are again on top! Remember Pangasinense Joan de Venecia who recently topped the bar exams? Well, here’s another one to crow about. The name is Gringo de Guzman San Diego, topnotcher in the recent nurses’ licensure examination. Yet, the last time we looked into the controversy stirred by the…
On believing the advocates of Charter Change One hundred and eight years since our independence was won in 1898, Philippines has not done much even to half deserve being called independent among nations in the Southeast Asia. Ironically we’ve done more to keep our republic lagging behind in the race…
The DENR and Pangasinan’s open dump sites The discovery of an illegal open dumpsite in Tayug by an investigating team of the Department of Natural Resources brings to the fore the unabated practice of local government units maintaining open dumpsites in defiance of the law prohibiting it. What is worrisome…
Police credibility and integrity Two weeks ago, Chief PNP Director-General Arturo Lomibao described how he would like his countrymen to remember his stint as commander of the national police organization. He said he wants to be remembered as the chief who restored dignity in the police service. Dignity means a…
Speaker JdV can be the next generation’s hero Pangasinan’s political icon, Speaker Jose de Venecia, has doggedly pursued the shift from the presidential-bicameral system to a parliament-unicameral system via a Constituent Assembly over the past year, and it has not seen the light of day and it does seem it…
Let’s help our public schools! The presidential public scolding of the officer-in-charge of the Department of Education two weeks ago brought to the fore the worsening situation in and neglect of the country’s public education system. While the issue at hand was the varying definition of the formula to address…
Is the government helpless or is it behind the assassination of journalists and activists? Last week, the oft-garrulous and off-target Secretary of Justice Raul Gonzalez did it again. In response to the human rights commission’s and organizations of journalists’ charge that the Arroyo government is not doing enough to stop…
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