Editorial
A call to action for NAMFREL in Pangasinan
LAST week, former DICT Secretary Eliseo Rio Jr., an advocate for transparency in computerized vote-counting, posted four (4) measures that he said Comelec should adopt to ensure transparent, clean and honest May 12, 2025 election. While it is unlikely that Comelec will do so as he recommended, there is nothing…
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Toothless Comelec
WHOEVER expected that this year’s midterm elections would be tame and subdued upon seeing the politicians who filed their certificates of candidacies quietly participate in the signing of the covenant and the parade of “decent, civilized” candidates, must have been truly naïve and desperate to see meaningful changes in the…
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Hideous 2025 election agenda
THE Red flag is up! The 2025 Midterm elections is not going to be just like any other in the past. What it is, and how it will end will be a test of our individual and community moral character. It will not be a mere election of another set…
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Losing the Mother-Child Hospital
THE Mother and Child Hospital that would have brought immeasurable relief to mothers and their children in Dagupan City over their health concerns is lost. The credit for it belongs to the seven councilors who were dead set on stopping it for the past three years. Celebrating city’s loss today…
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“Crime against humanity” now a crime vs criminality
THE arrest of Past President Rodrigo Duterte by International Criminal Court via Interpol was not exactly a surprise after the apparent flip-flopping by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. no less. While our fellowmen are discussing and digesting both the future scenarios for FPRRD while under detention in The Hague, and the…
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