“OO na, takbo na” By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE 2010 national election is fifteen more months away, but the air is already charged with politics. Traditional and non-traditional politicians, neophytes and political returnees are already jockeying for positions, creating different kinds of waves to get the attention of the…
Cool Capulanas By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique–A United States of Africa. That’s what the ever-controversial Col. Muammar Gaddafi of Libya is pushing for, more so now since assuming a couple of weeks ago the chairmanship for the African Union, which has 53 member nations. It’s a bold dream (some would…
February’s Child By Emmanuelle Properly wedded or otherwise, if your father and your mother coupled within or thereabouts the month of June, the fruit of such union . . . in February comes. That is, if the fertilized seed were cared for, and not scared off, from the moment of…
NEW TACK: “LOVE LETTERS” SAN CARLOS CITY– Will a different kind of “love letter” do the trick? Senior Superintendent Percival Barba, the police provincial director, is taking an unusual and different tack to stop cattle rustling in the city. Barba wants to send word, literally, a personal letter directly to…
FORMER Dagupan City Chief of Police Dionicio Borromeo was indicted along with several civilians, some of whom are Chinese citizens, for the operation of a big shabu laboratory in La Union that was busted by lawmen on July 9 last year. This was after a resolution of a three-man panel…
ILLEGAL settlers in Sitio Russia, the planned site for a Seafood Processing Plant, are ready to accept the Dagupan City government’s relocation offer, according to barangay chairman Ronald Torio. Torio said the residents, who earlier resisted the offer, have come to him to express their desire to take the housing…
“Botika Ng Bayan” SENATOR Manuel Roxas III urged the Dagupan government to set up more Botika ng Bayan outlets to make cheaper but effective medicines available to the city’s poor and growing elderly population. Speaking before Dagupan’s senior citizens led by their president Felipe Siapno, Roxas said the Cheaper and…
AN 86-year old American World War II veteran has an old man’s wish: to find a photograph of the old railroad yard in Dagupan where, 64 years ago, he killed a Japanese soldier to save fellow American soldiers. John Bennet, a former Private First Class in the 130th Infantry, 33rd…
AT LEAST 20 towns and 10 cities have already confirmed their participation in the “Festivals of the North” street dancing competition, one of the major events of the Dagupan Bangus Festival scheduled on April 15 to May 1. With this development, Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chairman of the executive committee…
THE local Bureau of Fire Protection found violations against fire safety standards on the three-storey Maya Emporium and General Merchandise building that was gutted by a blaze lasting more than 12 hours on February 6. Fire Chief Inspector Emilio Langcay, fire marshal of Dagupan, speaking before the city council, said…
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