We are back in the World Cup, thanks to South Korea By Al S. Mendoza WE are back in business. In August this year, the Philippines will play in the Fiba World Cup again. Set in China, the most prestigious world basketball event next to the Olympics will feature 32…
Silk dreams By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IN a Senate hearing last 21 February, Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III said, “roughly half of the 169,000 Alien Employment Permits issued by the Department of Labor and Employment in the last 3 years went to Chinese nationals and a third of which are…
Provincial basketball quarterfinals’ skirmishes By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE quarterfinals of the third edition of the “3rd Governor’s Cup Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament of Gov. Amado Espino III participated in by 24 towns and cities kicked off last February 23. Fifteen teams bracketed in two groups led by defending champion…
By: Dr. Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in www.moralstories.org. that I’d like to share, something we can all learn from. Boy’s Job AppraisalAuthor Unknown A little boy went into a drug store, reached for a soda carton and pulled it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the…
From shabu to cocaine? By Leonardo Micua REMEMBER the time when several containers of shabu were washed ashore in Barangay Cato, Infanta and when lawmen investigated this, they found more containers loaded with high -grade shabu floating offshore? This happened during the incumbency of President Joseph Estrada and his chief…
A closer look at Raffy Alunan By Ermin Garcia Jr. GUESS who blew into town – a good friend and hopefully a senator soon – Raffy Alunan! Accompanied by former PNP chief Art Lomibao (nominee of One Philippines party-list), both attended the farewell party of Art’s PMA mistah, Cong Pol…
Malasakit Center now in Dagupan By Gonzalo Duque AS I write my column today (Friday), the Malasakit Center of Region 1 Medical Center headed by Director Dr. Roland Joseph Mejia, was just opened with my good friend, former Special Assistant to the President Bong Go dropping by to greet the…
Our elections are only for the rich By Al S. Mendoza IF you have not realized it yet by now, then you must be in another planet. Elections in the Philippines are not for the poor. I mean, the poor can join every election, why not. They can file their…
The backpack By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo HE used to talk a lot even before the mass begins, annoying those seated beside him. There is an eagerness to his existence, always ready to give an opinion over the “kilometric” homily, the waste of words in litany and the impropriety of “pekpek”…
More cycling races in Pangasinan this year By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. NATIONAL scribes and cycling buffs outside our province keep wondering how and why our province is able to continue to produce national champions with international caliber in cycling,. I volunteer four reasons. Pangasinan is the pioneer in this…
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