Bless them who save poor people’s vision By Jun Velasco YOU’d mistake him for a retired movie actor ala Edmund Purdom or Gary Grant, this tall and handsome ophthalmologist who has under his care thousands of patients suffering from eye diseases in San Fabian, Pangasinan. Dr. Guillermo de Venecia, 76,…

Dr. Lucio Tan in town By Gonzalo Duque ZAMBOANGA CITY — This lovely city reminds us of our grade school song. ‘Don’t you go, don’t you go to far Zamboanga…” but we went, and here we are. But we were not here for fun. We were here to co-preside over…

Public investments needed in improving rice productivity: I By Sosimo Ma. Pablico The message of all this arithmetic is clear.  Without investments in improving rice productivity and efforts to manage the denominator of the rice-population equation, along with a focus on local-level potentials for growth, we will have to “run…

Republic of shortages By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. This country is now a land of big and shameful shortages. First, there were shortages of fertilizers, ballot boxes as well as votes. Then, there were shortages of commissions, “bukols” or “longpats”. Now, there are shortages of rice, pigs and irrigation…

Summer heat By Marifi Jara Summer seems to have come so suddenly this year. One day on the second week of March, it was still quite chilly in the late afternoon until early morning and nicely cool during the daytime, then the next day, as if from nowhere, the heat…

Let’s get rid of the ‘old’ City Hall By Gerry Garcia LACK of parking space continues to hound the city even after it had gone past its 60th year as chartered urban community and half of the proposed circumferential road designed to ease internal traffic has already been completed.      …

Bonuan bangus’ global popularity By Jun Velasco MANY are now considering Jun Lozada a shoo-in for the senate if and when he decides to enter the world of politics. Administration efforts to downplay his forays in the provinces such as the vaunted pulling down of his streamers and posters in…

Derogatory By Gonzalo Duque WELCOME to Dagupan and Pangasinan, Dr. Lucio Tan.         The famous  Chinese business mogul and philanthropist is in town, thanks to the collective efforts of Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, our old friend George Cham and  other personal friends for helping us to extend our invitation to…

Biogas Generation and Durabloom Production at Wellisa Farms By Sosimo Ma. Pablico THE PHILIPPINES won’t have much problem with methane gas emission if poultry and swine farms have their own biogas digesters for swine and use the sludge together with the poultry manure for the production of bio-organic fertilizer. Just…

Conscience By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. In general, conscience is the judgment of sound and right reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of an act that the same is about to do, will do or have done. In particular, moral conscience that is present in the…