Pangasinan has no clear history? By Gonzalo Duque ON the occasion of Dagupan City Day last Wednesday, we locals couldn’t help but be proud of the city’s history. Can we say the same of our province? Sadly, we cannot. We congratulate the outgoing Agbayani administration for the construction of the…
Insan Ponsing’s Malasiqui, a boom town By Al S. Mendoza SOL Juvida and I were in Malasiqui on Tuesday, June 19, to pay our last respects to Eufemia Barrozo, a gracious woman who was the mother of Alma Juvida. The last time we were there was last Holy Week. We…
Who’s next? By Eva C. Visperas I can’t help but cry whenever I interview families of slain Pangasinan officials. I still recall when tears flowed down my cheeks when I interviewed a relative of slain Mayor Jose Peralta Sr. of Balungao who was shot inside a church, when I rushed…
Sad dependence days! By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Lately, the Philippine Independence Day was celebrated—with the sour note that it was declared a working day plus school opening, the eventual results of which were relatively few celebrants and big traffic jams. As expected, people were exasperated and the national…
BPRE develops copra moisture meter By Sosimo Ma. Pablico An agricultural engineer of the Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension (BPRE), based in the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, has developed a moisture meter that will now prevent farmers from being cheated by copra traders who more often than…
I don’t agree By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. A well-known Comelec officer of the Fourth District of Pangasinan who asked not to be named said “the breeding ground of corruption is the Sanggunian Kabataan because they are mastering the art of making vouchers (money claims). As we all could see…
Of course, of curses! By Emmanuelle How would you react when a Cherry Gil look-alike throws red wine on your thousands-worth of straightened hair, make-over and white gown; and, adding insult to injury, she contemptuously proceeds to spray laway on your shocked face with the famous line: you are nothing…
People for the government By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. The present administration has successfully changed the consecrated democratic principle that the government is for the people. The reality is now precisely the other way around: the people are for the government. Sad but true—and dangerous. The plain and simple…
Who will clean up the candidates’ mess? By Ermin Garcia Jr. Every election year, we see fence walls, buildings, electric posts, bridges, etc. in every nook and cranny in the country vandalized to the hilt by our politicians, this despite an election law prohibiting the posting of campaign posters in…
Perplexing June 12 By Gerry Garcia THE proclamation of Philippine Independence in Kawit, Cavite on June 12, 1898, was more an expression of will and faith than actual acquisition. What we gained freedom from did not strike us as fully convincing as we were still under Spanish domination fighting against…
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