Cops and CCTVs AS the happy holidays of Christmas and New Year approaches, criminality also customarily spirals. Petty thieves prowl the busy commercial areas and prey on unsuspecting and careless shoppers, more cars disappear, and burglaries of homes and shops become more common.
Invisible cops By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE Dagupan police have a lot of explaining to do to the business sector. Yet I’m afraid no amount of explaining will acquit them because the fact was there was no police visibility in the area 24/7, a fact that obviously was known to…
Enthralling cultural shows By Jun Velasco “We should study our past to move us forward,,” Gov. Amado T. Espino Jr. LEADERS of the world’s two most powerful nations, the US and China, taking on their roles peacefully in their respective governments is simply awesome. The rites were peaceful, cordial but suspenseful amidst an…
Bring it on! By Gonzalo Duque SORRY, dear readers, if we devote this precious column for a subject that may not be to your liking. Pasencia kayo lay daiset agagui. The reason is that recent events in our media camaraderie club–the Pangasinan Press Club—is facing a litmus “domestic” test. But…
Funny, funnier, funniest By Al S. Mendoza PRESIDENT Aquino has Bam Aquino in his Liberal Party senatorial slate for the May 2013 polls. Vice President Binay has Nancy Binay in his UNA senatorial slate. Notice the difference? Well, as my L.A.-based friend Leonie Galvez loves to say, “The difference is…
Unopposed na! By Bebot Villar AS we rushed this piece to meet PUNCH’s deadline, may positive development sa Villasis. I’m sure, tuwang-tuwa ang mag-asawang ex-Mayor Nato at re-electionist Dita Abrenica dahil ang kalaban ni misis na si Butch Sison reportedly withdrew his certificate of candidacy. This makes Mayor Dita virtually…
Politics By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD FOR a start, it is but right and proper to state categorically and expressly that God cannot but be truly concerned with and attentive to the reality, the activity and finality of politics – even if only due to the fact that the latter’s…
PCCL connects the missing link By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNLIKE in the United States that has only one recognized national college champion in the field of amateur basketball which is called NCAA, the Philippines has at least eight groups of colleges that have their own format of national basketball…
A walk in the past! By Emmanuelle IN Coelho’s Alchemist, the boy’s heart told him ditzy things like “most people see the world as a threatening place, and because they do, the world turns out, indeed, to be a threatening place.” Zoom the perspective to the here and narrow, most…
Balitok a siglo Nen Santiago Villafania NIBAGAK ya ed sayan kailalakan sinmulming so balitok a siglo na anlong tan umaanlong a Pangasinan. Kabiangan ed sarayan umaanlong et sikara di Melchor Orpilla, Atty. Ferdinand Quintos, Sergio Bumadilla, Jesamyne Diokno, tan Hermie Beltran. Wala met la’ra’y manumtumbok a wala’d kalangweran laut la’d…
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