Rotary’s Five Way Test By Ermin Garcia Jr. Anent my item last issue about Rotarians and their fellow Rotarian Joc-joc Bolante, Rotarian Jun Velasco of the Rotary Club of Metro-Cubao informed me that his club was among the first to manifest its disappointment over the flight of Rtn, Joc-joc, away…
RP, Asia’s perpetual sad sack? By Gerry Garcia THE recent 6-car bombing suicides which ripped through a major Shi’ite militia force in Baghdad and killed 46 people, injuring 204 others were a trifling event casualty-wise compared to the Ultra stampede in Pasig City last month. This tragic incident netted 74…
Get those stone throwers shot at the plaza By Jun Velasco “Everyone wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.” — Ashok V FRIDAY over breakfast, our youngest son, Youssef, 22, glancing at two Rizal books on the table, asked if the Rizal Law was still being…
Experiencing God By Gonzalo Duque BELOW is a paper written by my daughter, Ma. Florinda Princess E. Duque, l8, Pebbles— for short, as her assignment in Theology Class as a freshman in Mass Com at Miriam College. I am taking the liberty to reprint it here, with very minimal editing…
Neat Nani By Al S. Mendoza WHO SAID NANI BRAGANZA is not a man of his own? He proved it just a while back when he said, loud and clear here at PUNCH, 1017 would destroy his city’s tourism campaign. His words were comforting. They made him 10 feet…
By +OVCRUZ, DD There are many and loud complaints coming especially from the ranks of the poor and the oppressed. There is much resentment among many citizens. There are numerous and repeated dissenting rallies and marches in the streets. It is even said that there is continuing restiveness in the…
Mayor Benjie Lim, the publisher By Ermin F. Garcia Jr. Finally, the Senate has terminated its investigation on the P728 million fertilizer scam at the Department of Agriculture. In brief, the Senate recommended that criminal and administrative charges be filed against former officials of the department, led by Sec. Agriculture…
Gov’t’s dubious ‘recovery’ of stolen wealth By Gerry Garcia WE’RE well past 2006, three years dating back to the “doubtful” 2004 presidential elections which had caused PGMA’s unabated bashing by the Opposition. She had, they say, cheated her way to the presidency and beaten the hapless but immensely popular…
Rachel Arenas is it? By Jun Velasco First we change the system, then we are changed by the system.—Anon. WITH the 2007 elections a done deal (Speaker JdV said so), the familiar faces we see during the elections are fast resurrecting day by day. In Pangasinan, those of exciting interest…
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