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by Rene Sebastian ACROSS   1. Wild pig   5. Pelotari’s bat 10. Stratagem 14. Cupid 15. Marriage venue 16. Exist 17. Pres. Cory’s monicker ...

BSP, GCash support digitized economy

  BSP Cafeteria and Cooperative opt for cashless transactions A counter at the BSP cafeteria with the GCash Scan to Pay QR code With an objective geared...

SM City Urdaneta Central opens May 4       

SM City Urdaneta Central, SM Prime Holding’s 69th mall, opens its doors to serve shoppers in Pangasinan. It is the second SM Supermall after...

24 arrested over Globaltech’s illegal gambling operations in Negros Occidental 

Twenty-four people were arrested in two separate operations by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) and National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) against Globaltech Mobile...

Robinsons Bank and Pru Life UK receive regulatory approvals for bancassurance partnership

Robinsons Bank and Pru Life UK are pleased to announce they have received the necessary regulatory approvals for their strategic bancassurance partnership. Approvals have...

SSS runs after delinquent employers in Dagupan City

The Social Security System (SSS) conducted its second provincial leg of its intensified collection campaign against delinquent employers here today, May 4. Under its Run After...

League of Vice Governors of the Philippines visits Laguna Water’s used water treatment plant

Laguna Water welcomed the League of Vice Governors of the Philippines (LVGP) to its LTI Sewage and Septage Treatment Plant (LTI SSTP) in Laguna...

Federalism: the Filipino view by Fil V. Elefante

Federalism? What is that? That was the apparent sentiment of most Filipinos, according to a recent survey released by Pulse Asia Research, Inc. Put more bluntly,...

The ‘gospel’ of Federalism by Joel Pablo Salud

The Duterte administration preaches Federalism as a sort of ‘gospel of liberation’. My past interviews with executive director Joel Sy Egco and House Speaker Pantaleon...

The fox and the pitbull by Marie Yuvienco

If Rodrigo Duterte felt no compunction cussing out the Pope, it is unlikely he’ll be suffering pangs of conscience over ordering the deportation of...

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GUERILLA DOWNPOUR

There is no warning— the sky, a sudden insurgent, opens with                     guerrilla downpour. Torrential rain, an unrelenting witness, assaults the fragile spines of trees and the quiet bones of houses. Water spills, not as mercy, but as a force that shatters the brittle calm we cling to. In the heart's small orchard, the fruit sags                beneath shadowed weight, and...

Salt Prayer

"There must be something strangely sacred about salt.It is in our tears and in the sea."from SAND AND FOAM (1926) by Khalil Gibran Matthew 5:13— "You are the salt of the earth. But ifthe salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made saltyagain? It is no longer...

Something more

BY THIS TIME next year, Teresita could be elsewhere, unmindful of the biting cold. She could see herself walking along a cobblestone path strewn with scattered leaves from maple trees that lined the streets. It would be October, and the foliage would be nothing short of magnificent....