Jeremias Andrade Carrera
29 April 2009

 

 

The Philippines under GMA has earned another first in the region-NARCOTICS TRADE HUB IN ASIA.

The 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report of the US State Department says “The country under President Arroyo has retained world infamy as a narcotics source and transshipment country in the region”.

Kaya pala inalis ang death sentence para sa mga drug lords and plunderers.

What kind of truth are we being asked to try to discern?

Abraham Fetalvero
29 April 2008

 

 

I am interested in the cashew sheller. I would like to purchase 4 machines if they have any available.

Please contact me on the email address provided. Thank you very much.

Brando Garcia
29 April 2008

 

 

I am sick and tired of your column, Mr. Garcia. The only sports you write is biking. Is biking the only sports in Pangasinan?

Why don’t you call your column Bike Eye instead of Sports Eye?

Are you getting paid by the bicycle association of Pangasinan to write about biking? Or, do you have a bicycle business?

Mr. Garcia, I would like to hear about other sports, otherwise, call your column “Bike Eye” not sports eye.

Singa ka aderal ya plaka.

Alfredo Gavina
29 April 2008

 

 

I’m looking for any relatives. My father’s name was Anecleto (Alex) Gavina.

I went to the Philippines with him in 1965. I was 10 years old. He introduced me to a brother whose name was also Alfredo Gavina. I left after a month back to California.

I asked my dad to come back with me but he said that he would go in a short while. He never came. I’m hoping to find some relatives for I am planning to go next year to the Philippines.

If you have any info, please write back. Thank You.

Alfred Gavina

Guiller211263
29 April 2008

 

 

It’s good to see our province is still into cycling sports. But I noticed this May’s race is only covering 1st to 4th Districts. What happened to 5th and 6th Districts? Are they not part of Pangasinan since you call the race Tour de Pangasinan? I thought our governor is promoting “One Pangasinan” vision to our provincemates.

 

P.S. Jess, my apologies. I read your article again and noticed that the race will pass through Asingan which is part of 6th District.

Kareef
28 April 2008

 

 

I used to agonize over this when I was in my first job, right out of college, brimming with ideas and ideals and all that mush. . . then suddenly, I realized - no matter if it’s a cliché - life is what you make it.

Forgiveness without Repentance, Restitution, Repentance

By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.

Forgiveness is so easy to say, to give and even to preach when the forgiving persons were not the ones ravaged and damaged, neither the individuals exploited and trampled upon, nor the ones cheated and robbed. And even supposing that the victims themselves of big graft and gross corruption do forgive the culprits, the truth is that these are not forgiven when they are not really repentant, when they simply keep what they stole, when they actually do nothing to repair the damage they did, to undo the injustice they committed. In this case, the ones forgiving must be well commended not only on behalf of humanity but also in the name of the Good Lord. But the ones forgiven remain as culpable, reprehensible and guilty as they really are in reality and fact.
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The rice battle

The rice crisis at the local level — here in Pangasinan which is one of the major rice producing provinces in the country — has now come to a face-off.

On one side of the battlefield is the government, represented by the National Bureau of Investigation and the National Food Authority. On the opposite side are the rice millers and traders who maintain the warehouses where the Filipino staple food is stocked.

The fight between the two groups can be summed up by the accompanying word war: “inspection” vs. “raid”.
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After JDV, Archbishop Cruz is next

By Ermin F. Garcia Jr.

In case you are not aware yet, the vengeful yet threatened Arroyo government has been flexing its muscles looking at its targets in Pangasinan straight in the eyes, promising dire results. The Malacañang operators have discerned that their notorious carrot approach (P.5M inside paper bags) apparently can work wonders with most of our elected officials in the province but not with a few who dare stand up to the government who insist on ferreting out the truth.
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Bothersome bus terminals?

By Gerry Garcia

Our  fellow-Promdi province of  Pangasinan Antonio Villar Jr., seemingly always in the fore-front in the drive against corruption in the government, hit the headlines again recently when he caused the filing of charges of smuggling against 29 government officials at the Office of the Ombudsman.

This expose on smuggling of luxury vehicles was probably the hottest so far since it involved personnel of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Land Transportation Office (LTO).
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