Benjie Lim on the comeback trail By Gonzalo Duque SORRY we missed the deadline last week. This Sunday Punch column writing business (thank you, Ermin!) has become a life routine so that when deadline comes, we couldn’t be at ease without doing our column writing bit wherever we are and…

After the storms By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique—The Christmas holidays are coming. Crime is on the rise. A couple of weeks ago, five of our six plastic chairs outside the house got nicked. One of the regular guards assigned to our house is on leave and an oldish gardener who…

Filipinos love boxing By Jun Velasco EXCEPT for 2 or so doubting Thomases, the packed audience who attended Jimmy Licauco’s lecture at the 100 Tower Penthouse in Kamias were his admirers. Jimmy, a world lecturer on paranormal phenomena, succeeded in opening a clear vista of the universe and, in the…

Philippine Abu Sayyaf Group By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Certain personalities holding relatively high positions in the local public and private sectors with legitimate concerns and business ventures in the Country, appear to have been long since nauseated and even exasperated with a particularly well known presidential creation known…

Begging Bowl By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. There is a world financial crisis that even much progressive and wealthy countries are reeling from. This is not to mention the reality of global warming that practically all nations the world over are suffering from in form of one kind of…

Let’s chat with Jimmy Licauco By Jun Velasco YOU must have read or heard about Prof. Jimmy Licauco’s report that on December 12, 2012, the planetary system will have a realignment of sorts. We thought it was no big deal and chose to ignore it. But the word “rearrangement” could…

Jun Ebdane for president? This guy is good! By Gonzalo Duque OUR brilliant friend Bishop Oscar Cruz, 76, has been replaced by a younger prelate, the equally brilliant and affable Rev. Socrates Villegas, who is only 49. A close friend of the Aquinos — no wonder Senator Noynoy and his…

All Souls Day By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Why a day of all souls every year? What is so distinct and singular about human souls? Who are these souls and where are they? The truth is that cemeteries are full of people during “All Saints Day” – but practically…

Jun Ebdane, a political politician By Jun Velasco AT first glance, Jun Ebdane, erstwhile public works and highways czar, looks like a square peg in a round hole in the presidential equation. You’d least expect the guy, who has lived in Pangasinan and served as Dagupan police chief and provincial…

Pidong Bustria endorses Solo for congress By Gonzalo Duque GEORGIA, USA–WHAT’s that news item denying our report that Antonio “Solo” de Venecia  Jr. is gunning for congress in the fourth district? We could only say they are now denying the denial. Why not get it straight from Solo himself and…