How to decide fast and easy By Ulysses Raciles Butuyan Executive Judge Regional Trial Court, Tayug, Pangasinan Honestly, and lawyers never lie, it took me long and hard to decide on what to write. It took me even much longer to decide whether to write at all. That’s how indecisive…
The lying Kapitans By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE barangay kapitans of Dagupan City were not only caught flatfooted by the floods but they have been caught as well with their fingers inside the cookie jar. What’s worse, their folly pointed to a conspiracy inside the mayor’s office (yes, again!)…
Those trash in plastic bags amuse tourists By Jun Velasco “Cleanliness is next to Godliness.” – Nursery rhyme AFTER Dengue’s devastation comes Mother Nature’s harmful fury. But is it really Mother Nature? Or greedy man debauching Mother Nature? We Northern folk must have (again!) seen — and experienced — a tough test to…
Revisiting the ‘Thrilla in Manila’ in 1975 By Al S. Mendoza THE nation did not observe yesterday’s 36th anniversary of the “Thrilla in Manila” Well, so what, you might say. The event doesn’t have any meaning anyway to the common tao. Commemorating it can’t even feed hungry mouths.
Conditional Cash Transfer equals… By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THE infamous Conditional Cash Transfer being assiduously funded by this government through merciless direct and indirect taxes imposed on all Filipinos – the CCT recipients included – can mean anything but its ridiculously claimed intention of poverty alleviation. Is it too…
My big mistake By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. DESPITE the threat of Typhoon Pedring lashing the country with heavy rains and strong winds and causing flooding, the organizers of the much-publicized LBC Ronda Pilipinas bikathon decided to push through with the 12-day road saga on September 24 with much fanfare…
Culturing abalone is easy By Roberto Garcia ABALONE is a high value shellfish whose meat is considered a delicacy while the shell is used for making various artistic merchandises. Nothing goes to waste.
The PUNCH’s martial law issue By Ermin Garcia Jr. DATE: September 21, 1972. It was a Thursday and was supposed to be another routine day of writing stories, columns and editorial for The PUNCH’s September 24,1972 issue. On top of my mind then was to do a follow-up story…
Give Filipino youth a new home By Jun Velasco “Nothing more detestable does the earth produce than an ungrateful man.”—Ausonius OFF HAND, we were in favor of the idea to scrap the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK). We changed our mind. Scrapping it is too harsh, too grave. It’s a big slap on the Filipino youth.
Mayweather does another of his evil stunts By Al S. Mendoza IF you weren’t stunned, shocked, by what Floyd Mayweather Jr. has done, something’s wrong with you. Sorry, but that’s my thesis. Cruel? But then, come to think of it. Mayweather hit a defenseless foe and came out the winner…
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