A TESDA training assessor of Pangasinan was murdered by a still unidentified suspect inside her house in Brgy. Bonuan Gueset in Dagupan City on January 11. The victim, identified as Lizandra Mamaril, 57 years old, was alone in her house when her husband Eusebio Mamaril, 60, found her naked, her face covered by a pillow and her head…
Opinions
Editorial
The Lunar New Year, the new Chinoy
FOR decades, the country has been witnessing celebrations touting the Chinese culture about wealth and prosperity. In fact, perhaps most are totally unaware that the Pinoy tradition of lighting fireworks and having round fruits and objects in homes to celebrate each New Year are adoptions of traditions to celebrate the…
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Punchline
EpaLiFes, the worst enemies of Dagupeños
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE epaLiFes, the 7-majority in the Dagupan sanggunian, are already frantically grasping at straws on how to evade responsibility over their plot to reject the proposed 2023 annual budget of Dagupan City and compel the reenactment of the 2022 budget in the next 12 months.…
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General Admission
Healing process ditched in Amores case
By Al S. Mendoza THE latest news on John Amores, the obviously mentally troubled kid, is a bit troubling. Amores was expelled this week by Jose Rizal University (JRU), his alma mater. That was off-key. That was flawed. That was downright harsh. Amores did wrong, no doubt. By running…
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Out of the fire
Governor in 2025?
By Gonzalo Duque THE recent brouhaha about the big drug bust in Pozorrubio by the PDEA speaks a lot about Gov. Mon-Mon Guico. After the successful PDEA operation, not a word was heard from him, even if Pozorrubio is only about a few kilometers away from his hometown Binalonan.…
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Random Thoughts
Capitol failed to protect our onion growers
By Leonardo Micua INQUIRER.net reported on Friday (before our deadline) that the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chaired by Senator Francis Tolentino has recommended the filing of criminal charges against at least eight former and current officials of the Department of Education and of the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget…
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G Spot
Blue notes
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo UNLIKE in jazz and rhythm and blues, where blue notes are used in spirituals, chants and rhymed narrative ballads, the blue note in poetry is melancholic, unrhymed and unsung. A silent, heart-rending wail living in between the verses, unable to shed tears. The knowing…
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Andromeda’s Vortex
The power of numbers
By Farah G. Decano DAGUPAN City’s advancement seems to be blocked by a Goliath of an opposition. With seven members solidly identified with the opposition and only five with the administration, it would seem impossible for any proposed budget to be enacted, right? Wrong. It is possible. The enactment…
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Sports Eye
“There’s always first time in life”
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “THERE’S always first time in life,” one of the world’s popular cliché, that happens to me time and again. Last January 15 during the “First. Jesus Rivera Garcia, Sr. Lingayen Gulf Landing Memorial Race” an amateur bikefest, I sponsored for my first bikefest in…
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Entre’acte
GONG XI FA CAI! MABUHAY!
By Rex Catubig "INTSIK tsonga", "Tsikwa"-- are just two of the monikers they are condescendingly called, implying disdain in the way they are regarded. Which reveals our bias and cultural ignorance. My father was privileged to enjoy a close association with the Chinese in the lumber business. I grew…
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Life with my lens
A PHOTO ALBUM OF “PROMDI” LANDSCAPES
Photos and short narrative by Art G. Valenzuela I would consider myself as one lucky guy as I am both a city boy and a “promdi” who has access to both city life (as in Dagupan City and Metro Manila) and rural-provincial life. Every week – coming from either Dagupan…
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Punch Forum
Coming soon…
UNLISERBISYO THE Local Development Council (LDC) of Dagupan has endorsed the proposed 2023 annual budget and expenditures of the city government to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) for its necessary action. This developed following the first LDC meeting for 2023 of the local government unit of Dagupan last January 16, 2023…
IT all started over a decade ago. During the term of Priscilla Dimapilis, the Dagupan City Club of Southern California, Inc. initiated the Christmas distribution of rice packs to indigent families of Dagupan. With just a few sacks divided into packs, the gift-giving included only the blocks around Herrero street. Over…
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