LovEmail to the Filipino Youth By S. Bill Jimenez Minamahal kong mga Kabataan: I take this opportunity to write you and express my hope and faith in your capacities and latent potentials for greatness. Our national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal, who dedicated his earliest work to the Filipino youth, confidently…
Crime statistics don’t solve killings By Ermin Garcia Jr. Finally, Smiley PD Barba, the provincial police director, looked like a winner last week. He finally had something worthwhile to report to the province. His command succeeded in collaring the leaders and 3 members of the notorious Colisao Gang, a group…
Will Rep. Rachel Arenas be unopposed in 2010? By Jun Velasco WE feared our car’s engine would go dead from the high water on the flooded streets of Barangays Pantal and Bacayao Norte on our way to Mayor Al Fernandez’s Fishpond, where a workshop of disaster preparedness was held last…
Why Manny Villar clicks By Gonzalo Duque PRESIDENTIABLE Manny Villar’s star keeps rising. Just as we thought so. Why? Like we too had said, because he doesn’t badmouth others on his way to the top… unlike most of them drooling to replace President Gloria. The other two who just keep…
My heart bleeds for Watson, for golf’s victims By Al S. Mendoza (Belated birthday greetings to writer Sol Juvida [July 23] and Rio Baloto [July 22]. Rio, a dear friend of my brother, Cris, is with the assessor’s office in Mangatarem. Cheers!) * * * * HOW long is one…
Non-SONA By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. It is not simply pitiful but also shameful, not merely pathetic but in fact lamentable as well. After no less than eight (8) glorious and majestic SONA addresses delivered with all possible glamour and grandiosity, the Philippines has in fact become much more…
RP five slumping anew By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. RECORDS show our national basketball team’s best finish in the Olympics was a fifth place in 1936, when the games were held in Berlin. That was skippered by our kabaleyan from Lingayen, the late senator Ambrosio Padilla. It’s the best finish…
PGMA embarrasses Sec. Pingkoy By Ermin Garcia Jr. I pity our two kabaleyans in the cabinet, who, as good soldiers for the wrong commander, are bearing the brunt of PGMA’s handling of the Cheaper Medicines Act willy-nilly. Mrs. Arroyo certainly had no qualms embarrassing Health Sec. Pingkoy Duque and Trade…
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