Pacquiao decides who will win By Al S. Mendoza WHILE you are reading this, either the Pacquiao-Barrera fight is over or just about to begin. Whatever, read on. I wrote this column in advance, exactly two days before today’s fight in Las Vegas, Nevada. As usual, before the fight, I…
Less losses, more profit with cold chain By Sosimo Ma. Pablico A continuous refrigerated handling of high value crops and other commodities like fish from the production area like the farm to distant markets could very well extend their freshness and quality, resulting in less postharvest losses and more profit….
Harvest Time
“Bagong Nayong Pilipino Manila Bay Integrated City” By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. The very long and complicated title alone is already impressive as well as intriguing. In fact, it does not only sound compound but also appears complicated. Its envisioned grandiosity is precisely what generates its suspicious reality and…
Viewpoints
Another milestone for GenVel By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. PANGASINAN sports lovers, especially in the field of basketball, are aware that the town of Sta. Barbara is a producer of sports celebrities. PBA’s Marlou Aquino and Christian Calaguio are the current luminaries from that town. Well, if you consider body-building…
Sports Eye
Manners make the man! Or the woman? By Emmanuelle It is not mere old folks’ talk. Written records from the earliest centuries had been dug up by anthropologists to give credence to the proposition that people as far back as even before the Middle Ages believed strongly in this popular…
Feelings
ZTE, JPEPA, RP-CHINA Agreement By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. There are truly trying times in the Philippines. These are really shameful days for the Filipinos. The Constitution continues to occupy a distinct place in the honor roll of corruption in the world. The national leadership remains in a dismal…
Viewpoints
Killing the IRA with NBN et al. By Ermin Garcia Jr. To many, the brouhaha over Joey de Venecia’s expose on the national broadband network (NBN) may have simply provided them some true-to-life drama for the day’s entertainment while others take the senate hearing as another waste of time as…
Punchline
Erap’s era finally ending? By Gerry Garcia FOLLOWING is a tale of sexual harassment from one Grace Ibañez, alleged member of the PPRCI (presumably Pangasinan Press and Radio Club). We do not know Grace personally. We picked her story from a press copy lying on our desk last week. Grace…
Here and There
Tragedy grips Lagao family By Jun Velasco “PEOPLE don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” — John Maxwell CONGRATULATIONS to a childhood friend and kin, newly appointed DENR Usec Eleazar Quinto from Barangay Lucao, Dagupan City. Ely is the scholarly son of the…




