Ed, get those cellphone snatchers! By Jun Velasco LAST Thursday afternoon, first year student Dindin Iñigo, daughter of Balita sports editor Dennis Iñigo and Bulletin correspondent Liezel Basa, just alighted from a trike from Mother Goose High School in Dagupan to Calasiao when her Motorola cellphone fell on the trike’s…
Pangasinan has no clear history? By Gonzalo Duque ON the occasion of Dagupan City Day last Wednesday, we locals couldn’t help but be proud of the city’s history. Can we say the same of our province? Sadly, we cannot. We congratulate the outgoing Agbayani administration for the construction of the…
Insan Ponsing’s Malasiqui, a boom town By Al S. Mendoza SOL Juvida and I were in Malasiqui on Tuesday, June 19, to pay our last respects to Eufemia Barrozo, a gracious woman who was the mother of Alma Juvida. The last time we were there was last Holy Week. We…
Who’s next? By Eva C. Visperas I can’t help but cry whenever I interview families of slain Pangasinan officials. I still recall when tears flowed down my cheeks when I interviewed a relative of slain Mayor Jose Peralta Sr. of Balungao who was shot inside a church, when I rushed…
Sad dependence days! By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. Lately, the Philippine Independence Day was celebrated—with the sour note that it was declared a working day plus school opening, the eventual results of which were relatively few celebrants and big traffic jams. As expected, people were exasperated and the national…
BPRE develops copra moisture meter By Sosimo Ma. Pablico An agricultural engineer of the Bureau of Postharvest Research and Extension (BPRE), based in the Science City of Muñoz, Nueva Ecija, has developed a moisture meter that will now prevent farmers from being cheated by copra traders who more often than…
I don’t agree By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. A well-known Comelec officer of the Fourth District of Pangasinan who asked not to be named said “the breeding ground of corruption is the Sanggunian Kabataan because they are mastering the art of making vouchers (money claims). As we all could see…
Of course, of curses! By Emmanuelle How would you react when a Cherry Gil look-alike throws red wine on your thousands-worth of straightened hair, make-over and white gown; and, adding insult to injury, she contemptuously proceeds to spray laway on your shocked face with the famous line: you are nothing…
TENSION ESCALATES IN SAN MANUEL But Mayor Perez denies involvement SAN MANUEL–I will face the music. This was the reaction of town Mayor Salvador Perez amidst growing accusations that he is behind the killing on Wednesday of his political rival, Vice Mayor Bonie Apilado. Perez told newsmen Thursday he is…
THE incoming administration of Dagupan City is poised to stop the construction of a tourism-commercial complex at the former Magsaysay Park if it cannot secure its building permit. And even if it is able to secure its permit, the project will still likely go through rough sailing under the incoming…
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