Careful with herbicides By Sosimo Ma. Pablico RICE FARMERS should now be careful with the use of herbicides or chemical weed killers, as two weed species in Nueva Ecija and Iloilo can no longer be controlled with the recommended application rates of three groups of herbicides. Dr. Madonna C. Casimero…
Categorical prohibition By +Oscar V. Cruz Church law categorically forbids clerics from assuming any public office whenever this means having a share in the exercise of civil power (Canon 285 Par. 3 CIC). This is universal church law. This prohibition applies to all deacons, priests and bishops of the Catholic…
College not required By Emmanuelle The average no-nonsense Filipino does not ask for too much: a decent job with a monthly take-home pay as near to equal as that of Hong Kong or the Middle East. The wife and kids are fed, clothed, properly housed; the children are educated; the…
Decorp customers, the ultimate victims By Ermin Garcia Jr. There is definitely more to the brouhaha over the insistence of the Lim government to compel Dagupan Electric Corporation to pay real property tax for the hundreds of electric poles erected around the city. The real issue here is not really…
Choral rebirth in Dagupan? By Gerry Garcia The University of Pangasinan Glee Club’s bagging top honors, together with Russia, in the choral competition in Xiamen, China mid-July (dubbed the 4th World Choir Games 2006) involving daw the “best groups” from 10 countries was, for this writer at least, amazing. Utterly…
‘Cyberscam’ By Jun Velasco “The discerning heart seeks knowledge, But the mouth of a fool feeds on folly”- Proverbs l5:l4 WE had an interesting dialogue with young writers at a campus journalism seminar in Luna Colleges, Tayug, Pangasinan recently. School paper adviser Rene Ordona, a fellow traveler in the…
Tita Eggie By Al S. Mendoza I MOVED TO the Philippine Daily Inquirer because of Eugenia Duran Apostol, who is fondly called Eggie. That was in 1986, shortly after the bloodless February Edsa Revolt that toppled the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. I was plucked out from the Bulletin Today (now…
The miracle of the money inside the washing machine By Eva C. Visperas Thanks to the 5,000 lira she “miraculously” found inside the washing machine in her workplace in the war-stricken Lebanon, this Pangasinense’s wish to return to Bolinao, her native town, came true. Jonilyn Caacbay, 23, of barangay Concordia,…
Rice husk-fired power plants to be discussed in a forum By Sosimo Ma. Pablico The bright prospects of investing in the establishment of rice husk-fired power plants will be the focus of discussions in a forum at the Manila Hotel on Tuesday next week, August 22. Expected to attend the…
Quest for truth continues By +Oscar V. Cruz Lying repels. Cheating offends. Stealing disturbs. Combined, these three errant actuations are bad enough when attributed to but a private individual. He does not only lose self-respect but incites others to spurn and shun him. But when the same unethical behavioral patterns…
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