Time is short By Jun Velasco THAT familiar charming woman — Mrs. Perla Duque Novales — at the famous Marigold educational center is gone. She was 86. We’ve known Atchi Perla since we were in the elementary grade as the warm and motherly proprietress of Marigold. She was second mother…
Hope in media reforms By Gonzalo Duque THE election of the new Pangasinan Press Club officers by this time would have been finished. Your columnist, encouraged by not a few fellow columnists and newsmen, entered the presidential affair in hopes we could put in our modest share in upgrading not only the…
Another circus, if not farce, in the making? By Al S. Mendoza WHAT have we got here? Hey, if that’s not an outright claim that freedom from prison can be bought in this country, will somebody enlighten me, please? The Philippine Daily Inquirer, where I worked 20 years (the…
Post EDSA 1: One big lost opportunity By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD EDSA I was wonderful for the country, a pride of the Filipino people. It was the end-result of a prolonged rude rule. It was the ultimate effect of incarnate self-service in a public office. It was the blessed…
Quirimit deserves due recognition By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I HAVE been an avid reader of newspapers since I became an athlete. It’s my practice to read the sports page first before the headlines and other pages. My day would not really be complete if I missed to read any…
IS THE ‘GAG’ ORDER BACK? SEVERAL heads of departments at the City Hall again failed to appear before the Sangguniang Panglungsod (SP) which is holding deliberations on the proposed 2011 budget for Dagupan this year.
MAYOR Benjamin Lim has agreed after all to address the Sangguniang Panlungsod at its session hall, but at his own date and time of choosing. In a letter to the SP on February 15, the same time he forwarded to the body a copy of the speech he delivered the day before which…
FEEDING PROGRAM IN SUAL–Some 40 pupils from the Batidape Community School and Day Care Center in Sual receive food items, school supplies, slippers, and stuffed toys during a feeding program last week sponsored by the Sual Police led by Senior Inspector Leo Llamas, chief of police, and assisted by the…
LINGAYEN– The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) tagged Pangasinan but the provincial police begs to disagree. Senior Superintendent Rosueto Ricaforte, provincial police director, has flatly denied a report from the PDEA that Pangasinan is now among the top 10 provinces that are major sources of illegal drugs.
PANGASINENSES who have already secured employment in Taiwan but caught in the new work visa requirements can avail of special lanes in five government agencies who have recently been directed to provide Taiwan-bound overseas Filipino workers special assistance.
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