Pro-life By Marifi Jara (I am writing this week’s column with reports from The PUNCH student trainees Charmaine Dizon, Wilna Memorial and Jahwela Ocay from UP Baguio.) In Manaoag, home of the shrine of Our Lady of Manaoag, also known as Nuestra Señora del Rosario, a popular pilgrimage site for…

Hope news of Dawel-Lucao road opening not ‘kuryente’ By Gerry Garcia TODAY, Palm Sunday, is the beginning of the Holy Week (Semana Santa) that will end gloriously on Easter Sunday commemorating the resurrection of Christ. Palm Sunday is celebrated with palm branch decorations signifying Christ’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem ….

Freshen up with Sendong So’s balita By Jun Velasco SECRETARY  Arthur Yap is probably the first pro GMA  cabinet  man who has made a  sensible  pitch for the embattled  lady  in a manner  that  dashes cold water to the heat  the anti forces have created. At Sendong So’s agri expo…

PhilRice comes up with submergence tolerant line By Sosimo Ma. Pablico A RICE line that could withstand complete submergence for at least two weeks has been developed by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice). This line may very well be one of PhilRice’s answers to the adverse effects that would…

“Why? Am I my bother’s keeper?” By Oscar V. Cruz D. D. It is no less than the Sacred Scriptures that recorded the question poised by a man named “Cain”. He murdered no less than his own brother. When asked by the Lord where his brother was, the murderer in…

Holy Week adventure By Marifi Jara Back in the 1980s, I particularly looked forward to family holidays in San Fabian, or elsewhere, timed during the Holy Week because that was an era before the advent of the smorgasbord of viewing pleasures offered by cable and satellite television. With school out…

Jueteng in perpetual motion By Gerry Garcia OFF-the-cuff rundown on what makes the GMA regime most “evil”. After joint agreement with ASEAN for stand-off vs. China in the Spratlys RP suddenly left on its own and joined China on a joint seismic “exploration” of RP’s which gov’t politicians and bureaucrats…

Mike Enriquez’s Angels By Jun Velasco THE advent of March usually brings up thoughts of the hottest season of the year, starting with Lent. It seems, as Bob Dylan celebrates it in a song, the times, indeed, “they are a ‘changin,’” as you, too, must have noticed the subtly biting…

High hopes with Durabloom among Bayambang farmers By Sosimo Ma. Pablico CORN FARMERS in San Gabriel, Bayambang, Pangasinan cultivating 301 hectares are placing their stakes on the bio-organic fertilizer Durabloom as they now witness the impressive performance of the crops of two farmer leaders. Their centers of attention are the…

Support for a cost By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. It has to be not simply conceded but accordingly admitted that the present Malacañang occupant still has a good number of followers and supporters. By and large, they come from the House of Representatives and the Local Government Officials—not to…