Two and three-wheeled hazards in open road By Gerry Garcia WITH the season of joy and goodwill barely over, we’re in no mood to grapple in this column with the complex and often confused issues relating to former President Erap’s long running detention (or vacation?) at his sprawling rest-house in…
Watch your public official By Jun Velasco THERE is a quiet outrage among Dagupeños who get their regular dose of graft and corruption reports about the conduct and behavior of officials they have elected to run the city affairs. Since not many of them are lawyers and can hardly see…
More on the DCNHS dream By Gonzalo Duque MS. LINDA Magno is in town. One of the most sought-after lady singers in the 60’s up to the 80’s, Atchi Linda, now Mrs. Cloutier, will entertain old friends and the local media at the family residence along Rizal street, beside the…
Junked rice breeding material turns out to be an asset By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Junks may not be totally useless if something is done to make them beneficial to man. One good example is the improved IR58025B where the IRBB lines of IRRI [International Rice Research Institute] were used as…
Reformist, Nationalist, Populist By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. There are marked indications that the 2004 midterm elections are key to the future of this country. Since the texture of the present administration there is an on-going long litany of big socio-moral reversals and scandals with their consequent ugly and…
Let’s hear JDV once again By Gerry Garcia TRADITIONAL politics, as especially played out in our Third World Republic, has been singled out by most political analysts to be behind our dismal failure to catch up with our regional neighbors some of whom were at par with, or even below,…
Kuya Joe, the ball is in your court! By Gonzalo Duque AFTER a couple of weeks’ vacation, your fiery columnist is back. Sorry to those who were praying that I go on leave for a longer period. But so many were looking for this column whom I cannot ignore….
Linda Magno comes home By Jun Velasco IT SHOULD not surprise us that US Marine Lance Corporal Smith is being treated with kid gloves by the authorities. What’s surprising is our alacrity to pretend that we can obtain justice against the world’s political industrial complex ruled by the United States….
First biotech rice variety in RP released By Sosimo Ma. Pablico The first biotech rice variety in the Philippines, released only recently by the National Seed Industry Council [NSIC] for commercial production, is now being produced in a large scale. Called NSIC Rc142 or more popularly as Tubigan 7, the…
Contradictions Par Excellence By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. The attempt to reverse the Anti-death penalty law by some members of the lower house and the recent death sentence imposed on a known dictator, brings to mind the ridiculous as well as gross contradictions of death penalty – even on…
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