Club Pangasinense night on March 14 By Jun Velasco DEPENDING on how you look at the world, the political confusion — the nonstop attempt to foist charter change, martial law talk, and the jockeying for mileage in the race to the presidency — has either become a merry-go-round craze or…
TESDA as trailblazer By Gonzalo Duque PRESIDENTIABLE Manny Villar did a big booboo when he remarked rather irresponsibly that for one to be able to launch a bid for the presidency, he must at least have Pl billion. As expected, his rivals the likes of Dick Gordon, Ping Lacson, Mar…
Davao’s version of Dirty Harry By Al S. Mendoza DAVAO CITY – You smoke here in public, you go to jail. You drive discourteously here, you go to jail. These are just two of the “light penalties” you incur when you break city ordinances here. Mayor Duterte has banned smoking…
Stop indiscriminate spraying to save onion predators By Dr. Sosimo Ma. Pablico ONION FARMERS may as well stop spraying insecticides indiscriminately on their crops to protect predators or friendly insects that help them control the onion leaf miner, scientifically known as Liriomyza trifolii. This advice comes from Dong Arida, a…
Malacanang folly By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Foolishness, inanity, absurdity – these are some of the realities similar to “folly”. And when such is appended to “Malacanang”, it means the folly of its reigning occupant or ruling chief. Put it together, “Malacanang Folly” has reference to the foolishness, inanity…
Werweran ed Mangaldan By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE province’s most popular annual bicycle race, “Mangaldan Cycling Grand Prix”, was started on March 14, 1974 and pioneered by the late mayor, a sports buff, Atty. Macario G. Ydia. The very first race was won by my former teammate Winselmo Baguio…
Counting the days By Therese Soriano Colegio de Dagupan HOW time flies. I hardly noticed that the month of March has set in. That means just a few more weeks to go and I would be leaving the portals of my college life in Colegio de Dagupan. No more boring…
Our drinking water is not safe By Ermin Garcia Jr. For weeks now, the PUNCH has called the attention of the Dagupan City government about the dangers posed by the continued dumping of wastes from the Dagupan District Jail direct to the Tondaligan beach shoreline. For this effort, the PUNCH…
The nationalist option By Jun Velasco TWO friends who have no love lost for the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund swear that the United States government has acquired a vulture image because of these two giant funding institutions. Nationalist writer Alejandro Lichauco and Local Water Utilities Administration (LWUA)…
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