By Jess Garcia Jr. PANGASINAN’s dreaded basketball squad, the University of Pangasinan Webczars, starts its title defense in the tertiary level of the annual Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) Pangasinan-Dagupan City Inter-Collegiate Basketball Invitational Championship on Tuesday (August) 1 at Dagupan People’s Astrodome. The Webczars of Cesar Duque took the…
By Jess Garcia Jr. The same number of teams will compete in this year’s annual Private Schools Athletic Association (PRISAA) Pangasinan-Dagupan City Inter-Collegiate Basketball Invitational Championship but with a number of changes. AMA, STI and Luna College did not enter this year’s tourney and the three educational institutions will be…
Flash floods mar Urdaneta City‘s beauty By Jun Velasco URDANETA City’s much improved infrastructure development such as the radical widening of the highway right in central poblacion (thank you, Congressman Mark Cojuangco and Mayor Amadito Perez!) is being stymied by flash floods that cause traffic jam at the slightest drop…
Speechless President Gloria Arroyo spoke to the nation and was expected to talk about the country’s present state of affairs. To the dismay of our people, no thanks to Microsoft’s Power Point, the event was nothing but a dressed up social event in well-planned imagery, to proclaim the glorious state…
JDV did not deserve the presidential snub By Ermin Garcia Jr. President Arroyo’s State of the Nation address as expected turned out to be just another PR speech, an opportunity for thanksgiving and wishful thinking. I was disappointed that even as she went on with her “dedication program”, she actually…
Charter reform, only way to survive By Gerry Garcia YOUSSEF “Chip Chip” Velasco, 21, youngest son of Journalist Jun Velasco and university Prof. Catherine Bernardo (Jun’s one and only wife), is now one of Malacañang’s Big Guns. A UP scholar and graduate in Public Administration, Chip Chip now works in…
A more confident Gloria By Gonzalo Duque WE all have seen her during her 6th State of the Nation Address. She was at her best. Her SONA showed an ebullient Gloria, a more confident Gloria. She is “game.” Many were disarmed by her humor and wit. Of course, the opposition…
Tiger on the prowl again By Al S. Mendoza GOLF is so difficult a game that we rarely see a player winning a tournament two successive years. Seemingly, in other sports, winning titles back-to-back is chicken feed. Remember Lance Armstrong’s seven straight Tour de France cycling titles, if not Michael…
My Cinderella story at the SONA By Eva C. Visperas I can’t exactly remember the number of times I’ve attended the State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Gloria Arroyo upon the invitation of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. But the last one on July 24, 2006 was…
Pangasinan’s pride in Agricultural Research By Sosimo Ma. Pablico DR. MADONNA Carbon Casimero is a weed scientist who leads PhilRice’s program for unfavorable environment and has distinguished herself in integrating farming practices that lead to improved productivity of rice-based farmers. Only over 40 years old, she started working at…
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