Drug trading inside provincial jail, too? By Bebot Villar IT certainly looks like there are jail guards and inmates at the Pangasinan Provincial Jail who think they can replicate the drug trading activities of their peers at the New Bilibid. It was a good thing alert si Jail Officer…
Of facelift, shabu and martial law By Ulysses Raciles Butuyan Presidential yacht to undergo facelift. A president needs it, too. Ilocanos still pushing Digong-Bongbong tandem. Only by those who have never heard of due process of law. Shabu seized inside provincial jail. Where can’t shabu be found? There is…
The elderly boy-driver By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ON the 30th of November 2014, early morning at 6:00 a.m., I boarded a Five Star bus to Urdaneta. I was the only passenger, and traveled with several sacks of vegetables which the driver picked in front of Balintawak. I commented that…
Mayor Bona scrapped Werweran’s tradition By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE fiesta celebration of my town, Mangaldan, this year started in mid-January and will end on March 8. Like in the past two years during the administration of our Mayor Bona de Vera Parayno, a lot of activities were organized…
The real indicator By Johanne Macob THE presentation of the administration seems to be very obsessed with the idea of the Philippines’ increasing gross domestic product (GDP) or gross national product (GNP). If I’m not mistaken, every State of the Nation Address by the President always has a portion…
COURTING PANGASINAN VOTE. Senator Grace Poe, whose presidential ambition at this stage now hangs by the thread because of the impending decision of the Supreme Court regarding her disqualification handed down twice by the Commission on Elections en banc, was among those who came to Pangasinan and wooed its voters…
Bongbong’s politics By Ermin Garcia Jr. NOT a few in Pangasinan, have wondered what kind of politics Sen. Bongbong Marcos is playing. Consider these situations. First, he announced that he secured an understanding with Sen. Miriam Santiago that they will form the tandem for the presidential elections – Miriam…
P-noy indulges in double talk By Gonzalo Duque DURING the EDSA celebration, President P-noy had the best and worst of times denouncing the atrocities of Martial Law and everything that the late Ferdinand Marcos stood for. Let’s grant that this heir of the Aquino legacy, that from Ninoy and…
Revealing Pacquiao’s bigger battle By Al S. Mendoza THE first nagging question is: What happened to Manny Pacquiao? Why his sudden outburst against gays and lesbians? What made him do it, calling same-sex partners making love as “worse than animals?” Where did his position come from, when I never…
Comelec, Madonna, Marriage By Ulysses R. Butuyan “COMELEC, PALACE: NO CHEATING.” That sounds like they were talking to each other. “BISHOP SLAMS MADONNA: BEWARE THE EVIL ONE.” Who between them? “GOVERNMENT MAY SURPASS REFORESTATION PROJECT.” Most likely, there’s digging of holes even on roads, old and new, everywhere these…
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