Divorce and question Marks By +Oscar V. Cruz JCD QUESTION 1: WOULD AN ABSOLUTE DIVORCE LEGISLATION BE PURSUANT TO THE TEXT, CONTEXT AND SPIRIT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES? Article II, Section 12 of the Constitution, in nonetheless than the declaration of principles, and State policies,…
NBA finals predictions and analysis By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE global sports scene is now focused on the French Open and the NBA finals. But Filipino sports fans follow the NBA finals more than the French Open as basketball is indisputably the numero uno sport for Filipinos. Basketball fans…
FRIGHTENING FISHKILL SIGHT—A member of a monitoring team from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources-National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center is taken aback at the sight of thousands of floating bangus in one of the many fish cages in Anda affected by a massive fishkill last May 29 to June…
ANDA AND BOLINAO SUFFER THE fishkill that broke out in Anda and Bolinao from May 29 to June 1 destroyed some P300 million worth of milkfish, badly battering the economy of the two western Pangasinan towns. Although the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has not completed its inventory of…
FISH that died from the fishkill in Anda and Bolinao are surreptitiously getting into Dagupan as several unscrupulous traders have been caught mixing these with newly harvested bangus. Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, last week’s acting mayor, asked members of consignacion, the city’s seafood vendors, to help the government protect the…
THE executive and legislative bodies in Dagupan City may clash anew over the ordinance increasing the minimum tricycle fare from P7 to P10 for the first three kilometers and an additional P2 every kilometer thereafter. Members of the majority of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) said they are determined to override…
NINE Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in Pangasinan have been given the green light by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to increase tuition and miscellaneous fees this school year. Those granted the authority to increase their fees are Colegio San Jose de Alaminos, Divine World College in Urdaneta City, Luna Colleges in…
A PETITION for the recall has been initiated by the town’s mayor, Marcelo Navarro Jr., for alleged “loss of confidence” against seven members of the Sangguniang bayan of Bani. The seven, who compose the majority of the council under the Lakas-Kampi party, are Vice Mayor Filipina Rivera, who sits as council…
LAKAY CONDRING IN 1957—President Carlos P. Garcia. GARCIA (right) reassured Governor Conrado F. Estrella last week that Pangasinan would continue to receive the same massive support, “if not more”, as it did from the late President Magsaysay. The new Chief Executive expressed his desire to visit Pangasinan as soon as…
FORMER Agrarian Reform Minister Conrado F. Estrella Sr. died peacefully in his sleep Tuesday evening at the family residence in Quezon City. Estrella, known as the “Grand Ol’ Man’ of Pangasinan politics, started his political career as mayor of Rosales town and later became governor of Pangasinan in the mid…
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