Jueteng is waiting By Manuel P. Biason IT’S gone. It’s over. It’s dead. But not forever. Like the dreaded cancer remission, it is now hibernating, waiting for the right time to resurrect and strike, again. But not while Pnoy is the president, and while Bishop Oscar Cruz is still…
Courage By Jun Velasco PROBABLY, due to its sheer length, our paragraph on fellow writer Jimmy Lucas, former trade and industry director of Pangasinan flew over the hump in the Punch’s last issue. It was a dusky afternoon when we visited him at his Bonuan Boquig home, three days after he…
Thank you, PPC! By Gonzalo Duque WE wish to thank the members of the revitalized Pangasinan Press Club for their vote of confidence in your columnist. We assure them that we shall do our best to meet their expectations — the revival of a true and responsible press in this premier…
Fervent prayer for Donaire By Al S. Mendoza THE case of Nonito Donaire Jr. reminds me of Gabriel “Flash” Elorde. Elorde, as a boxer, had his father-in-law as his manager. His name was Lope Sarreal Sr. Lope, who was my friend, was a regular guy who delighted both his…
Lie vs. Truth By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD A lie by any other name remains a lie. Deception. Falsification. Prevarication. Invention. Misrepresentation. All these and other impressive variance of the same reality still say one and the same thing: Lie. Perhaps – just perhaps – it might help those present…
Saving the Werweran By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FOR 37 years now my hometown Mangaldan has been conducting a bicycle race every year in conjunction with the celebration of the town fiesta. Started on March 14, 1974 under the leadership of the late hizzoner Atty. Macario G. Ydia, the annual…
Slavery By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique–On a trip to the northern part of this country over the last Christmas and New Year holidays, one of the places we visited was Ilha de Mozambique, an island off Mozambique’s northeastern coast declared as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1993. It’s…
A pseudo SOCA? By Ermin Garcia Jr. THERE is this piece of good news for Dagupenos… but still more bad news. City Mayor Benjie Lim finally agreed to present his plans formally to the city council as mandated by the local government code (LGC). Hopefully, this change of heart will…
Time is short By Jun Velasco THAT familiar charming woman — Mrs. Perla Duque Novales — at the famous Marigold educational center is gone. She was 86. We’ve known Atchi Perla since we were in the elementary grade as the warm and motherly proprietress of Marigold. She was second mother…
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