Philippine Abu Sayyaf Group By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Certain personalities holding relatively high positions in the local public and private sectors with legitimate concerns and business ventures in the Country, appear to have been long since nauseated and even exasperated with a particularly well known presidential creation known…
Jueteng in Western Pangasinan To Chief PNP Jesus Verzosa, Dear Sir: Ano na po ba ang ang nangyari sa ANTI JUETENG CAMPAIGN ng PNP sa bansa natin? Namamayagpag po ang jueteng sa buong lalawigan ng Pangasinan. Mula 3 hanggang 4 na beses na sila magsagawa ng bola sa loob ng…
Begging Bowl By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. There is a world financial crisis that even much progressive and wealthy countries are reeling from. This is not to mention the reality of global warming that practically all nations the world over are suffering from in form of one kind of…
Binmaley can but Dagupan can’t By Ermin Garcia Jr. What’s the difference between the governments of Dagupan City and the town of Binmaley? In Dagupan, fish pen operators can thumb their noses at the mayor and his officials, ignoring the city’s ordinance and get away with it. In Binmaley, the…
Let’s chat with Jimmy Licauco By Jun Velasco YOU must have read or heard about Prof. Jimmy Licauco’s report that on December 12, 2012, the planetary system will have a realignment of sorts. We thought it was no big deal and chose to ignore it. But the word “rearrangement” could…
Jun Ebdane for president? This guy is good! By Gonzalo Duque OUR brilliant friend Bishop Oscar Cruz, 76, has been replaced by a younger prelate, the equally brilliant and affable Rev. Socrates Villegas, who is only 49. A close friend of the Aquinos — no wonder Senator Noynoy and his…
I will miss Pacquiao-Cotto but still, thanks to Kuya Mario By Al S. Mendoza (Belated happy birthday to my brother, Kuya Vicente, on Nov. 7. Also on Nov. 10, happy birthday to another brother, Kuya Onie. Manang Rose has prepared her delicious pancit on both occasions. More birthdays to come…
Pacquiao will win By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. ASIDE from politics, the talk of the town now is the fight between our very own Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao and Puerto Rican slugger Miguel Cotto for the World Boxing Organization welterweight belt. They will clash in a catch weight of 145 pounds,…
Zilch between the ears By Emmanuelle This writer begs your pardon. It had been so long, weeks too long, more than a month even that this space had idled. It had lain uninhabited. Up to now, anggad natan, inggana tattan. No one breathes here. No letter stirs the vacant air….
Bangus Scandal 2009 By Ermin Garcia Jr. Typhoon Pepeng after all was not all about devastation of everything good. Its wrath was about a pointed message to the Dagupan City Hall – “I destroyed your friends’ illegal fish pens!” Indeed, Dagupan City Administrator Alvin Fernandez has some real explaining to…
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