Joey is popular among Dagupeños By Jun Velasco IT was a different Joey de Venecia persona the Dagupan folk saw the other Saturday, a few days after super Typhoon Cosme lashed the city and province. The matinee idol-looking namesake and junior of former Speaker Joe created a mini storm as…
Tuition fees Debate By Gonzalo Duque AS WE foresaw it, Dr. Lucio Tan, El Kapitan and mega business mogul made good his word in sending any form of help or assistance to our beloved Dagupan City after his visit to Dagupan three weeks ago. He recently sent his donation of…
‘The Mexicutioner’ By Al S. Mendoza HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Coach Dayong tomorrow, June 2. *** THE LATEST IS, Manny Pacquiao is training furiously in Los Angeles. He has to. David Diaz cannot be taken lightly. As the world lightweight champion, Diaz, of Mexican descent but living in Chicago, Illinois, is…
Distinct honor from CSSP By Sosimo Ma. Palbico THE BIGGEST SURPRISES in one’s life really come at the least expected moment. Just like an award for me as an agriculturist and agricultural journalist from the CSSP [Crop Science Society of the Philippines], which is probably the largest group of agriculture…
Pacquiao will make another history By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS wrong when I predicted Juan Manuel Marquez will win his second battle against Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao. Although in my belief Marquez won—or at least earned a draw— in that monumental and classic encounter of the world’s…
Omnipotence By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. All signals and indications say one and the same thing. The Malacañang occupant deeply loves and enjoys much the feeling of omnipotence with elements of omniscience as a complementary attribution. During these days there is even manifest design to consolidate more power and…
Sugar-coatings! By Emmanuelle Surely, our penchant to sugar-coat almost all things unpleasant, so as not to seem unpleasant, shall get us as near as can be to being guilty of duplicity. Duplicity meaning dishonesty, deception, unfaithfulness, fraudulence. At worst, duplicity in this sense signals a defeat of the original purpose…
NATIONAL GOV’T HELP NOT FORTHCOMING LINGAYEN-Sariling sikap. Governor Amado Espino Jr. called on local officials to adopt this motto in the difficult rehabilitation task ahead of the province following the massive damage wrought by Typhoon Cosme. In a meeting with mayors on May 25, Espino told city and municipal leaders…
Too bitter a pill for Dagupeños to swallow at this time. This was the reaction of the city council to the proposal of the Dagupan City Water District to increase water rate by as much as 45 percent over a period of four years. The council, on motion of Councilor…
BURGOS-Typhoon Cosme left thousands homeless. Including the province’s pawikan (sea turtles), a specie in the endangered list. The white sand, the habitat of the giant sea turtles in this coastal town which has come to be known as the home of the pawikan, was washed away. Now gone is the…
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