One too many By + Oscar V. Cruz D. D. On one hand, there is the national leadership who long since has been proudly and loudly pronouncing its resolve to clean the government it leads from the infamous graft and corruption that have become its expertise. Sometime last year or…
Let the games begin! By Ermin Garcia Jr. SAN CARLOS City Mayor Julier Resuello has shown the way how politicians and the clergy can agree to disagree civilly, and keep the community united for a common purpose – a God-fearing community that values integrity in governance. I wasn’t there to…
Unwitting punchline from imperious MLQ By Gerry Garcia AS expected following the trouncing defeat of pro-administration senators in the last polls, opposition senators are preparing to reopen the investigation of the “Hello Garci” vote-cheating controversy again, only three years remaining before the presidential elections in 2010. Revival of the “Hello…
Hope for the world’s poor By Jun Velasco JOE de V, Dagupeno, our 4th District congressman and Philippine speaker, was at center stage in Kuala Lumpur during the assemblage of top parliament leaders in the Association of East Asian Nations — the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly. For a moment, you mused:…
New pathways to education By Gonzalo Duque HEARD the song “Honesty?” We want to dedicate it to most of our pubic officials. Here goes, “Honesty, it’s a lonely word, everyone is so untrue.” If you read the national dailies these days, that guy whose name is Doble seems to be…
Pacquiao flirting with disaster By Al S. Mendoza MANNY Pacquiao was in the news recently for having suddenly decided to leave his training camp in Los Angeles, California. He came home after spending only two days in America in a complete reversal of schedules. The people’s champ was supposed to…
Awards for excellence By Sosimo Ma. Pablico If one indicator of the quality of manpower in a government agency is the kind and number of awards received by its personnel for their accomplishments in research and development, then BPRE [Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension] may very well be among…
Psychological incapacity By + Oscar V. Cruz D. D. It is an open secret that practically all marriages “annulled” by the government forward the ground of “Psychological incapacity” on the part of either or both spouses. It is also quite known that especially so in these “annulment” cases, the best…
“Rain, rain go away…” By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. LAST March, our weather experts from PAGASA predicted that when the rainy season comes this year, we will be suffering from La Niña, especially here in Luzon. More typhoons will bring rains that will flood the lowland areas, they said. (While…
Pangasinan subol By Marifi Jara They are the isko at iska from Pangasinan, living in Baguio for the meantime. That’s short for “iskolar ng bayan”, a moniker for students studying within the University of the Philippines (UP) System. And they are not forgetting their roots even as they move out…
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