Ermin Garcia: Unsung hero in his own land of birth By Al S. Mendoza JULY is Sunday PUNCH month. Just right. Emerging from austere, inauspicious, times, the Sunday PUNCH was born in July 1956, when the wounds of war had yet to fully heal. Hesitation still stalked the land….
Truth By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD IRRESPECTIVE of how someone is called or known with reference to his or her sexuality – “gay”, “lesbian”, “transgender” or anything the like – people have to give them the respect and deference they have a right and claim to pursuant to their…
Reform the SK, not abolish it By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THERE’S a push by some of our country’s lawmakers to abolish the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) due to its failure to serve its noble purpose and instead has become the breeding ground of corruption and political dynasty. Spearheaded by administration…
O Filipinas! Nen Santiago Villafania FILIPINAS o Pilipinas? Aya so tepet tan alingasngasan natan laut la dia ed facebook. Ginmapo nen imparungtal na Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino ya say nepeg a ngaran na pinabli tin bansa et Filipinas basi iya ed no anto so akasulat ed awaran tan no…
For Water is Life By Johanne Margarette R. Macob I WAS looking at some old photographs then I noticed a common element: water. It seems that I’ve been in love with water for so long now. LOL. There are pictures of me or my loved ones with a beach…
“CORRECTION, PLEASE!” CONTRARY to what was earlier reported by the Dagupan City Budget Officer that there is only P12 million in the city coffer left by the Lim administration to run the city in the next six months, the new administration of Mayor Belen Fernandez has actually only P8.5 million cash on hand…
WHILE the controversial Maternal and Children and Lying in Clinic planned by former Mayor Benjamin Lim never took off the ground, some P2.5 million was already paid by the city to its chosen contractor, A.S.S. Construction Co. Records show the city paid the sum to the contractor after a public bidding…
NEXT CBCP PRESIDENT LINGAYEN–The election of Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas as president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) last July 7 was celebrated by Pangasinan as another source of pride for the province. Gov. Amado Espino Jr. said Villegas’ election will “surely benefit the people of the…
8-10 DISTRICTS MULLED LINGAYEN—The Sangguniang Panlalawigan is reviving the move for the redistricting of the province from the existing six to eight given the projected population of 2,892,873 by year 2013. Resolution No. 4-2013 was approved last week by the provincial board providing for the creation of an ad hoc…
BINMALEY—It appears that the newly assumed mayor here has something in common with Dagupan’s Mayor Belen Fernandez: an almost empty coffer. Mayor Simplicio Rosario, in his first two weeks in office, was shocked to find that the town’s funds for the year was almost entirely spent by the administration of…
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