Save the bangus industry By Jun Velasco SCENIC Dapalu drive (Dawel-Pantal-Lucao Alternate Road) gives motorists a panorama of the city’s major bangus industry. Yes, Virginia, the river under the Japanese-funded bridge (Dagupan’s version of the San Francisco Bridge in California) is part of the Bonuan navigational route that raises the…
Pinoys don’t know how to handle power? By Gonzalo Duque ALTHOUGH we are in the US — at Macon, Georgia at the East Coast, particularly -thanks to our Ate Grace, now a Mrs. Dizon – our thoughts flew back to the Philippines, especially in our beloved Dagupan and Pangasinan, which,…
If Hoya allows it, Pacquiao will win By Al S. Mendoza AFTER Jose Sulaiman, who else but the legends themselves is deciding to join the fun. Sulaiman, the president of the World Boxing Council, has said the De La Hoya-Pacquiao fight is a battle between a “pachyderm and a hobbit…
Triple whammy By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. First was the lead content in toy paints. Children love to lick their toys, put these in their mouth while playing and feeling good. Unknown to their dotting parents, their children were being slowly poisoned by such a deleterious element. How many…
Bantay son finds success in Mindanao By Sosimo Ma. Pablico AN SVD PRIEST once told this writer, “Go South, young man. There are lots of opportunities over there.” True enough, there are lots of opportunities in the south, particularly in Mindanao. One of those who realized a truism in the…
Good choice By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. ON Thursday, September 25, SBP executive director Noli Eala announced that most likely to be appointed as the new head coach of our national basketball squad will be the Serbian Rajko Toroman. Toroman, the former head coach of the Iran nationals arrived here…
Kindness as an inheritance By Glaiza Bernadeth Pinto IS chivalry, or being a gentleman, dead? For a while, I have been convinced that it is. On most occasions, for example, I see young people – both male and female – crossing the street alongside an old man or woman and…
One day in her life By Emmanuelle Hedges have eyes, and walls have ears. People, too. Or haven’t you noticed? Anyway, this story is not about hedges that have eyes, or walls that have ears, or people who have eyes and ears or haven’t you noticed. Though someday, more than…
The President’s men from Pangasinan By Ermin Garcia Jr. AFTER the DPWH, it’s the projects of the Department of Agriculture that are highly vulnerable to corruption. Like the substandard mix for asphalt and cement for road projects, anomalies almost always attend distribution of millions-worth of fertilizers, feeds and maintenance of…
Stewing over GSIS Manager Winston’s ‘mismanagement’ By Gerry Garcia WHAT has long peeved the millions of subordinate members of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) is the extended office term of Winston Garcia, highly paid millionaire head of the system who has been at the helm since he was under…
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