Nuclear Power By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD This is nuclear power: Beneficial yet likewise dangerous. Wonderful yet basically fearful. Praiseworthy yet ultimately untrustworthy. In other words, nuclear power is a good example of the composite of what is good and evil, what is desirable and unadvisable, partly known and mostly…

Beyond an hour of darkness By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique–“Why is the night so dark?” asks a young boy. “So that we can see the stars,” replies a wise old man. Those are lines I will always remember from Dreams, the last masterpiece of legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa (he…

Impromptu reunions By Jun Velasco SOME of our readers feel edgy for our series of death column articles lately. We don’t want to further disappoint anyone. Bear with us, here’s another one. But we wish to assure you that writing about the death of a friend isn’t a walk in the park….

Media and police crime prevention By Gonzalo Duque AT the KBP forum last Thursday, we had a nice chat with Police Supt Gerry Roxas, spokesman of the Pangasnan PNP on some points we wish to share with you, dear readers. You’re right, it’s about what our police are doing to ensure the peace…

M.8.9. By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD ON the occasion of the magnitude 8.9 earthquakes that hit Japan and leave the Country ravaged, had people killed and has its economy devastated, it is expected that there are certain individuals who will speak and engage in a good amount of prophecies of…

Courage By Jun Velasco PROBABLY, due to its sheer length, our paragraph on fellow writer Jimmy Lucas, former trade and industry director of Pangasinan flew over the hump in the Punch’s last issue. It was a dusky afternoon when we visited him at his Bonuan Boquig home, three days after he…

Thank you, PPC! By Gonzalo Duque WE wish to thank the members of the revitalized Pangasinan Press Club for their vote of confidence in your columnist. We assure them that we shall do our best to meet their expectations — the revival of a true and responsible press in this premier…

Lie vs. Truth By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD A lie by any other name remains a lie. Deception. Falsification. Prevarication. Invention. Misrepresentation. All these and other impressive variance of the same reality still say one and the same thing: Lie. Perhaps – just perhaps – it might help those present…

Slavery By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique–On a trip to the northern part of this country over the last Christmas and New Year holidays, one of the places we visited was Ilha de Mozambique, an island off Mozambique’s northeastern coast declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1993. It’s…

Time is short By Jun Velasco   THAT familiar charming woman — Mrs. Perla Duque Novales — at the famous Marigold educational center is gone. She was 86. We’ve known Atchi Perla since we were in the elementary grade as the warm and motherly proprietress of Marigold. She was second mother…