A blast from New York By Al S. Mendoza RENATO E.O. VALDEZ, my classmate from Grade 1 to Fourth Year high school whom we fondly call Rene, e-mailed me last week to say he reads the Sunday PUNCH through the internet. “I now read your General Admission regularly through the…
Isidro Ramos 24 Sept 2007 Ladies and Gents, this might be one of the signs why Pinoy youths past and present are not reaching their potentials to become innovator and contributor in the lives of people. As you have read in this forum an idea was raised by…
The Supreme Court of the Philippines By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. During these days of frustration in the search for truth and times of exasperation in the pursuit of justice, the Supreme Court of the Philippines stands at the summit of hope especially for those who feel or know…
Saved by PhilRice – JICA project By Sosimo Ma. Pablico After losing their savings in more than a decade as overseas workers in Hongkong, husband and wife Eduardo and Agnes Asuncion of Currimao, Ilocos Norte have found the farm as their escape from the memory of scams that almost ruined…
Pangasinan cyclists strike again By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. The months of July, August and September are supposed to be the rainy season. PAGASA earlier said this year is supposed to be characterized by La Niña, a weather phenomenon of abundant rains. But it has been the other way around….
Quest for Quality By Marifi Jara As a little girl, on our family summer visits to my mother’s hometown, Sabangan, San Fabian, I would know that we were close to my grandparents’ home once we hit the rough road. That last left turn to my most wonderful childhood playground brought…
Of Queens and Consorts By Emmanuelle The following tale and its characters may be true. Definitely, it is not entirely false. Meteors from heaven, ang tamaan ay huwag sanang magka-bukol. Nagmamarunong lamang po ang may kaunti at ang wala talagang . . . alam. We are the world! We are…
LIM ADMINISTRATION LOST BY DEFAULT Backdoor transactions doomed ownership Just as fast as the Barangay Awai land in San Jacinto was bought by then Mayor Benjamin Lim five years ago, it was immediately lost by the city to the government’s Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program. The 29.993-hectare property that the Dagupan…
Chronology of Events December 3, 2001– Sangguniang Panlungsod enacts Ordinance No. 1734-2001 reverting the amount of P11.780,441 from the balances of projects and programs from the city’s annual development program for Calendar Years 1993-2000 to the unappropriated balance of the year 2001 General Fund, and appropriating the same to cover…
The Commission on Election (Comelec) has moved the filing of certificate of candidacy (COC) for the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) election to Sept. 29 up to Oct. 18. Comelec provincial chief Reddy Balarbar told The PUNCH that the resetting of the date is intended to fix the late announcement…
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