Breeding ground for future sports greats By Al S. Mendoza LET the warring flags flutter fiercely in the wind. Assemble the future heroes of sportslandia. The battlefields in Lingayen, Dagupan, Calasiao and San Carlos are raring to spread the red carpet. Oh, wait a minute. Aren’t Bugallon and Binmaley also…
Bagay si Sen. Ping sa DILG By Bebot Villar HINDI alam ni Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo kung ano na ang nangyari sa Loterya ng Bayan. Inamin ito mismo ni Robredo when he came to Bugallon on May 1 as guest of honor and speaker for Pangasinan’s Pista’y Dayat…
Here We Go Again! By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD POLITICAL campaigns have already started loud and clear – no matter what the law provides, irrespective of the time and place of the campaigns are staged. The unsaid truth is that it is Malacañang that is the very first to engage…
Boxing in La Trinidad By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I motored to La Trinidad, Benguet together with pal and Punch colleague Jun Velasco and Pangasinan provincial consultant Cesar Carpio, both avid boxing fans, and we watched some professional boxing bouts last April 28 at the Cordillera Career Development College gym,…
The Samaritan Heart By S. Bill Jimenez A RETIRED FILIPINO from Pangasinan went to a San Francisco bank one Monday morning to deposit a check. Being early he was second to the front in a long line of customers. Suddenly, an old white lady came in and announced, “I’m in…
PALARONG PAMBANSA LINGAYEN—The games begin. Sporting competitions will start today for the Palarong Pambansa 2012 and the formal opening ceremony is scheduled on May 7 with President Benigno Aquino III as guest of honor. Police Regional Director Franklin Bucayo gave assurance on the security of all participants saying police personnel…
OMBUDSMAN IN PANGASINAN—Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales (second from left) and former Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez (second from right) unveil the marker of the newly constructed three-storey building of the satellite regional office of the Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon located in Barangay Carmay East, Rosales. With them are Governor Junie Cua of Quirino…
ROSALES—Now that the Office of the Ombudsman has an office in Barangay Carmay East here, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales is hoping Pangasinenses will be encouraged to stand up and file cases against erring public officials. “We have to cooperate so that we can abandon the culture of corruption and proceed…
BUGALLON–Heads of Local Government Units (LGUs) that did not observe the full disclosure policy as provided for by law are in hot water, according to Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo. Robredo, speaking to newsmen after he addressed the commemorative program for this year’s Pista’y Dayat (Sea Festival) said his…
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