Vote buying By Jun Velasco “When someone says, “trust me,” hold on to your wallet.” Anon YOU should get a copy of the latest— Valentine’s – edition of Pacebook, a Dagupan-based national magazine. A young girl who saw the magazine’s cover at MouseHouse pulled the arm of her ma and…
Two worthy senate bets By Gonzalo Duque CONGRATULATIONS to Atty. Manuel F. Manuel for his election to the Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Pangasinan chapter. Inonaan to tayo nen Jun Velasco ya nanawns na eleksyon nen kaiban Manny. Our new IBP czar deserves more than just the announcement of this…
Comelec absorbs first-round knockout By Al S. Mendoza UNCONSTITUTIONAL. It violates the principle of separation of Church and State. With that as its anchor in elevating its case to the Supreme Court, the Bacolod diocese won Round 1 in its, well, funny fight with the Comelec. On Tuesday, the…
“Team Buhay.” “Team Patay.” By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD ALL of a sudden, life or death has become but a political issue, nothing more than a partisan political matter. To speak openly about this reality is no taboo for the citizens of the Philippines. To choose publicly between the…
Meeting ex-world champ Barrera in the flesh By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I BELIEVE you watched the World Boxing Organization (WBO) light flyweight title fight on TV two Saturdays ago between defending champion Filipino Donnie Nietes and WBO minimum weight titlist Mexican Moises Fuentes held at the Waterfront Hotel…
Women: Stepping out, pressing on By Johanne R. Macob MARCH is Fire Prevention Month but apart from that, it’s also Women’s Month. Well, just saying for the sake of those who were not aware. Anyway, Women’s Month always reminds me (even more) of the ever-cunningly-existing ‘crusade’ towards sexual equality. At…
STILL NO DEPED, DOH APPROVAL THE planned Maternal Child Care and Lying Clinic of the Dagupan City government will pass through the eye of the needle before it can be granted a permit to operate by the Department of Health (DOH), according to Dr. Roland Mejia, chief of the Region…
WHO’S BEHIND THE PROLIFERATION OF FISH PENS—Whatever happened to the Dagupan City government’s touted policy of zero tolerance for fish pens implemented by Mayor Benjamin Lim when he assumed post three years ago? Fish pens such as these captured by PUNCHlens photo last March 7 have started to again mushroom at…
LINGAYEN—The war is now on Facebook. Re-electionist Gov. Amado Espino Jr. and his opponent Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza have taken their political rivalry on the internet using their respective accounts on social media site Facebook. Espino recently posted in his account what he claims to be the attempts of…
DAGUPAN Mayor Benjamin Lim is not yet off the hook in connection with the controversial Awai land deal in 2002 wherein the Dagupan City government paid P16 million for a less than 30-hectare land in Barangay Awai, San Jacinto, supposedly for a sanitary landfill project. Even as the administrative aspect…
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