Hope springs eternal By Jun Velasco IT would be well for the Dagupan engineering and public works guys to mobilize their crew to work double time, day and night, to finish the rehabilitation and elevation of flood-prone Arellano Street. That stretch gets a daily grind of all types of vehicles,…

Impressive!!! By Gonzalo Duque NORMALLY, or abnormally, we don’t go to the Provincial Capitol, well, maybe, for personal reasons. Our apathetic attitude could be due to our dismay to the non-cooperative stance of past provincial officials to our projects and/or advocacies we thought were worthy of support for the good…

Enhancing peace in ARMM the PhilRice-JICA way By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico PEACE IN the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) has always been elusive. Other than political reasons, the continuing conflict between the Muslim rebels and the government is being aggravated by poverty among Muslims. To many of the…

Recipe for disaster By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. When will the Malacanang long standing occupant ever accept that as a leader declared as most corrupt, crooked and double-dealing, majority of the people have also long since appended thereto their distrust, disgust and disdain? And when will the known and…

PHINMA head defines role of education in development By Jun Velasco WOW! It may be ordinary for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to come to her home province often, but to hold her cabinet meeting at the residence of PASG chief Usec Bebot Villar in Sto. Tomas town is something. Not…

‘Political traffic jam’ By Gonzalo Duque WE are lately suffering from what we call a “political traffic jam,” if we take note of the many personages who have been making pronouncements left and right here and there that they are the God-sent messiah tasked to save the country from wherever…

Low-tech but cheap and reliable By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico LOWLAND RICE FARMERS can now easily assess the soil nutrient that is deficient in their fields by using a kit invented by a former soil science professor at the University of the Philippines at Los Baños (UPLB), former scientist of…

Sad tales By Marifi Jara LOOK, no Quelimane, Mozambique dateline here! And I am smiling, happy to be back in Pangasinan for a couple of months. By some interesting twist of fate, the first Filipino friend I made when I arrived at the airport in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique,…

The dramatic rise of Pingkoy Duque By Jun Velasco TWO front-page news items in the papers, last week Pangasinenses must have received with gusto point to Health Secretary Pingkoy Duque as first, a shoo-in for the administration’s senate slate in 20l0, and second, his topping the list (as head) of…

Let’s go ahead with the media advisory idea By Gonzalo Duque WE received a lot of encouraging reactions to our subject last week, which was about Senator Pimentel’s Right of Reply bill. As we said, to which many agreed, the bill was not anti press freedom; but anti media malpractices….