General Admission
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under General Admission, Opinion | Leave a Comment
PAL Interclub: A habit I can’t kick
By Al S. Mendoza
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY—I wrote this piece in this jewel [...]
Harvest Time
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Watch out for weedy rice
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
Rice farmers would do well to watch for the invasion of weedy rice in their farms, as this weed poses great competition for soil nutrients with the rice plants and could cause reductions in yield.
Research reports indicate that if 35 percent of a rice crop [...]
Viewpoints
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
Remember: “Hello Garci”
By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.
The “Hello Garci” issue refuses to die. It was denied to rest with the adamant rejection of the impeachment process no less than twice filed in the House of Representatives. [...]
Sports Eye
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment
Kudos
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.
It was one unique and exceptional basketball event that was played last February 13 at the University of Pangasinan (UPang) gymnasium. The UPang players in the 70’s to 90’s, then popularly known as the Greyhounds, battled the current squad named the Webczars.
The project, dubbed as the “All Time Battle of [...]
Feelings
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
The Old and the New
By Emmanuelle
This week's article was written while waiting for the Cebu Pacific flight to Mindanao, the fabled land of promises.
You see, before this writer plans to lay her head down to a sleep where there is no awakening, there is this standing promise to herself to see with her own [...]
MJ endorses Usec Villar for Pangasinan governor
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
PROMISING FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Al for Dagupan mayor,
Rachel for Congress
THE often garrulous former Manila Congressman Mark Jimenez, speaking for more than one hour before political leaders and members of the media with his loose pants threatening to drop thrice, endorsed Undersecretary Antonio "Bebot" Villar for governor of Pangasinan, Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez Jr. for mayor of Dagupan [...]
Contractor keeps mum on missing steel bars
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
THE mystery of the missing steel bars and trusses retrieved from the burned private market owned by the Bugnay Construction and Development Corporation, which disappeared last year, may never be solved by the city council.
This as contractor Robert Sison, through his counsel Atty. Albino Gonzales, has invoked his right to remain silent following an invitation [...]
3 Dagupan senior officials in hot water
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
FOR TOWING SERVICES MESS
THREE senior officials of the city government are now in hot water in connection with the towing services rendered to the city by JLD Motorworks and Towing Service of Sta. Maria, San Jacinto, Pangasinan even as the supposed contract signed by Mayor Benjamin Lim remains missing.
Surprisingly, it was Councilor Teofilo Guadiz III, [...]
New provincial police director vows firm anti-drug campaign
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
LINGAYEN–Newly installed Pangasinan Police Director Senior Superintendent Isagani Nerez, who took over the command Thursday from Senior Superintendent Alan Purisima, has vowed to make the campaign against illegal drugs more intense and rigid in the province.
Nerez also pledged to impose the law more strictly as he warned his men that he will apply the [...]
Velasco shifts to mayoralty race in Sta. Barbara
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
STA. BARBARA—Vowing to the clamor of local leaders and majority of the people to lead a principled politics of change and reform in his native town, retired Police Deputy Director General Reynaldo V. Velasco has formally announced his bid for mayor instead of his initial plan to run for Congress.
"While I initially planned to run [...]
