Carlos S. Bulosan, ma-ngaraned kuritan By Mel V. Jovellanos PIGPIGARA ni labat so kaluyagan tayo’n kabat da’y Bulosan. Saray Dagupeños anta ra’y Barangay Bolosan balet no Bulosan, singara alatian ya tansan. Diad bahley na Binalonan wala met lay ginawa ra’n monumento tan kalye ya pangi-dayew ed si Carlos Bulosan…
Plagiarism here and now By Johanne Margarette R. Macob WHEN I entered college, the very tenets instilled to us were that of “Honor and Excellence”. Honor first before excellence, for without the former, the latter is worthless; as a word without an action or an action sans emotion. I remember…
Thank God I’m Filipino By S. Bill Jimenez TGIF! Thank God I’m Filipino! Among Filipinos, thanksgiving is an important virtue. “Utang na loob” (gratefulness) should be expressed and demonstrated; otherwise, you are called “walang utang na loob” (ungrateful). And being ungrateful is a stigma you don’t want. One Pangasinense who was supported by a…
CHRISTMAS AT THE CAPITOL—The capitol plaza in Lingayen draws crowds at night with its giant Christmas tree set up for the duration of the yuletide season. It was illuminated in a lighting ceremony Thursday night spearheaded by Governor Amado Espino Jr. and graced by President Benigno Aquino III’s cousin Bam…
DELAYED POLICE RESPONSE HIT THE Dagupan police remain clueless as to the identities of the armed men who staged a broad daylight robbery on a jewelry store and pawnshop on busy A.B. Fernandez Avenue at about 9:11 a.m. on Nov. 10. But Senior Superintendent Mariano Verzosa, officer-in-charge of the Pangasinan…
MANAOAG–Shortly after the broad daylight heist on a jewelry store in Dagupan last November 10, Local Government Units (LGUs) in Pangasinan are now scrambling to pass ordinance own ordinances making it mandatory for commercial establishments to install closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras. Senior Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario of the…
MAYOR Jose “Joe” Esteves of Milpitas in California, a Dagupeño, will be a balikbayan soon. “I am always homesick – I like to see my kabaleyan.I like to smell the air and feel the place where I lived for 30 plus years,” Esteves said in an e-mail interview. The five-time…
MILD RESHUFFLE A NEW city election officer has been assigned in Dagupan following what the provincial Commission on Elections (Comelec) calls a “mild reshuffle”. Provincial Elections Supervisor Marino Salas said Atty. Ericson Oganiza, municipal election officer of Lingayen, replaces Election Officer Remarque Ravanzo who in turn has been moved to…
THE political tempest is brewing hot. Two ‘mistahs’ or classmates of Governor Amado Espino Jr. in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) fired their first political salvo by denouncing the 300 percent increase in the real property assessment effected under his administration. Retired Generals Arturo Lomibao and Marcelo Navarro Jr. said…
BAR AND BENCH REFORMS—Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno receives proposals for reforms in the bar and bench from Integrated Bar of the Philippines- Pangasinan chapter president Atty. Farah Marie Decano and other officers last November 16 in Urdaneta City. (Photo by Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
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