Omnipresence By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD OMNIPRESENCE is just that: Present everywhere, existing anywhere – anytime and all the time. This is neither easy to do nor ordinarily done. In fact, even the wind is absent in a vacuum while someone can only be here or there – but…
A sports head in every barangay By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. I’M making this piece on October 25 Friday, three days before the barangay election so we are on a pre-election mode – “It’s tension time,” as the saying goes in sports competitions, like the last two minutes of…
Sustainability By Johanne Margarette R. Macob I GREW up believing in fairytales, in destinies, in happy endings. That sooner or later, everything will be okay. I came of age adhering to Aristotle’s philosophy that man is naturally sociable as he/she is not self-sufficing. That families, friendships and other relationships…
BARANGAY ELECTION LINGAYEN—The Police Provincial Office (PPO) has placed 88 barangays in 29 towns and cities of Pangasinan in the watch list in the barangay elections on Oct. 28. This was bared by Provincial Director P/Sr. Supt. Marlou Chan during a final coordination conference among the police, Armed Forces of the…
TO COVER DEFICIT THE Dagupan City government still needs to raise P25.2 million to avoid being in deficit at the end of the year. Towards this, Mayor Belen Fernandez has ordered the City Treasurer’s Office to work double-time in its collection of taxes to be able to raise the amount…
THE LIGHTER SIDE-–-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) Regional Director Nestor Domenden’s statement draws a snicker from DENR-EMB Regional Director Joel Salvador (left seated) at the inquiry held during the regular session of the sangguniang panlalawigan on the fish cages in Sual. Seated beside Salvador is Sual municipal administrator Ramonito…
LINGAYEN—The hemming and hawing by the Sual local government in defending the controversial presence of some 778 fish cages near the Sual Power Plant in the past weeks did not help its cause. To end the contentious and emotionally charged discussions, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau…
THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) has finally approved a resolution proposed by Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo seeking to amend the body’s house rules to include an anti-graft body called Blue Ribbon Committee that will investigate the complaints with the city council. Tamayo’s resolution was in response to the series of complaints…
THE City State Savings Bank has filed a complaint for libel against an executive of the Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) and The PUNCH’s editor-publisher and seven editorial staff members before the Office of the City Prosecutor in Pasig City, Metro Manila. The complaint was filed by lawyer Roger Diaz with…
LINGAYEN—The provincial board of Pangasinan approved Monday last week a resolution extending P2-million as calamity aid for earthquake-affected victims in Bohol. In a resolution passed by the board presided over by Vice Gov. Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr, the aid will be drawn from the province’s calamity fund.
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