NBN too hot & too heavy to handle! By Jun Velasco THE Holy Book’s axiom on the oneness of the son and the father has caused Speaker Joe de Venecia’s bashers sleepless nights. JdV’s superstar son Joey has dramatically soared to global prominence because of the controversial broadband deal. How…
Political surveys unreliable By Gonzalo Duque MOST Filipinos, including Dagupeños, in San Francisco are not in the pink of financial health. Many have acquired some kind of phobia against financing institutions due to sky-high loan interest. Many we have talked to say “there’s really nothing like home in the Philippines”…
A blast from New York By Al S. Mendoza RENATO E.O. VALDEZ, my classmate from Grade 1 to Fourth Year high school whom we fondly call Rene, e-mailed me last week to say he reads the Sunday PUNCH through the internet. “I now read your General Admission regularly through the…
The Supreme Court of the Philippines By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. During these days of frustration in the search for truth and times of exasperation in the pursuit of justice, the Supreme Court of the Philippines stands at the summit of hope especially for those who feel or know…
Saved by PhilRice – JICA project By Sosimo Ma. Pablico After losing their savings in more than a decade as overseas workers in Hongkong, husband and wife Eduardo and Agnes Asuncion of Currimao, Ilocos Norte have found the farm as their escape from the memory of scams that almost ruined…
Pangasinan cyclists strike again By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. The months of July, August and September are supposed to be the rainy season. PAGASA earlier said this year is supposed to be characterized by La Niña, a weather phenomenon of abundant rains. But it has been the other way around….
Quest for Quality By Marifi Jara As a little girl, on our family summer visits to my mother’s hometown, Sabangan, San Fabian, I would know that we were close to my grandparents’ home once we hit the rough road. That last left turn to my most wonderful childhood playground brought…
Of Queens and Consorts By Emmanuelle The following tale and its characters may be true. Definitely, it is not entirely false. Meteors from heaven, ang tamaan ay huwag sanang magka-bukol. Nagmamarunong lamang po ang may kaunti at ang wala talagang . . . alam. We are the world! We are…
Who is next? By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. One down and counting. It cannot be otherwise. The one who fell was burdened with some overwhelming socio-moral accountabilities. The next one will find it hard not to fall as well. The latter’s both ethical and political liabilities are much more…
Sooner or later By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. The signal is clear. The message is loud: jueteng is a personal curse and a national shame. This is the bitter lesson that goes with the guilty verdict rendered on a former president primarily on account of jueteng payolas. Jueteng is…
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