Open letter to the Bishops and Priests – 2 IN their open letter this January 2010 addressed to the Bishops, Priests and religious in the Philippines by a group of Filipino Lay Catholics – which is some kind of a first venture in recent local Church history – the writers…
Balancing Negative and Positive Forces By S. Bill Jimenez MAKE a lemonade. This is a metaphor on dealing with a negative force in life by making it into a more positive usage. We must learn to balance negative and positive forces. Electricity is produced by the combination of negative and…
Thank God for the new alibi By Ermin Garcia Jr. Thank God for the assignment of new regional director in Region 1, P/Chief Supt. Constante Azares Jr. and evidently a hushed new directive from Guv Spines, Smiley PD Barba was rebuffed and finally compelled to take back his word on…
RP is due for a big earthquake too By Jun Velasco THE whole world grieves at the tragedy that has befallen the Republic of Haiti since Thursday’s earthquake . Conflicting reports say half a million died in the holocaust (PDI Jan.15) while Philippine Star placed it 100,000. It’s a colossal…
Where’s Dagupan City Hall? By Gonzalo Duque DAGUPEÑOS and Dagupeñas want us to vote for either Al Fernandez or Benjie Lim. If you are asking us, we’d say, sorry, none of the above! Why, well, basic, we have no handsome city hall to speak of Benjie and Al have had…
Mayweather must be crying over spilled milk Al S. Mendoza IS it final? I mean, is the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight finally off? My take is, it can still be saved. In boxing, as in politics, nothing is impossible. The fight was supposed to be held on March 13 in Las Vegas.
Open Letter to the Bishops and Priests – 1 By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD It has been reported recently and understandably – that a group Filipino lay Catholics have prepared a revealing open, ardent and urgent letter specifically addressed to the Bishops and Priests of the Philippines, inclusive of the…
San Fabian leads in boxing By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. ONE seldom hears of a boxing match, either amateur or professional, being organized here in our province. Yes, we know this is not our sport. But unknown to many, this province had already produced a professional world champion, the 1965…
Cultural acclimatization By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique—Many years ago, it was a foreigner friend who first stirred in me thoughts about our “gun culture” in the Philippines. He commented how he found it disturbing, quite menacing actually in the beginning and somehow amusing later on, to see security guards carrying…
Not a smiling matter By Ermin Garcia Jr. JUST as we feared, what happened would happen again. Soon after the shotguns were indiscriminately issued to barangay chairmen in the province, a number of kapitans became ‘power-charged’ and careless that led to incidents of violence. This time, another hotheaded barangay kapitan…
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