Philippine PEN 2013 Conference Nen Santiago Villafania NAGAWA so tulagan na Philippine PEN ed saya’y arapen a Desiembri 3-4 (Tuesday-Wednesday) dia ed Marilen Gaerlan Conservatory-North Wing, De La Salle University, Manila. Say tima ono pakdaar “Literature of Concord and Solidarity: The Writer as Peacemaker.” Keynote speaker si Jaime An…
Listen to your conscience By Johanne Margarette R. Macob AN open letter to Mrs. Janet Lim-Napoles: I don’t have the slightest idea when this yarn starring yourself, would end, with all your “I invoke my right against self incrimination” blah blahs. I don’t know how many books I…
Young Roots
DAGUPAN’S OSBC CONFIRMS THE Dagupan City government stood pat on its previous claim that the Citystate Savings Bank at the ground floor of the former MC Adore Hotel is operating without a business permit nor the prerequisite building permit for renovating the premises. Carmen Olpindo, chief of the One-Stop-Business Center,…
Citystate bank still operating sans permits
MISS DAGUPAN 2013 BETS—The fourteen ladies vying for this year’s Ms. Dagupan title are presented to the media at the residence of Atty. Liberato “Ope”Reyna Jr., the Hermano Mayor for Dagupan City Fiesta 2013. The coronation night is traditionally one of the highlights of the city fiesta in December. The…
MISS DAGUPAN 2013 BETS
GONE WITH THE WIND? WHERE have all the huge earnings derived from the trade fairs, food bazaars, sponsorships, flea markets or baratillos in the city streets held under the past city administration in the last three years gone? Definitely not in the city’s coffer, as testified by an official from…
No festival earnings remitted for 3 years
ON ILLEGAL FISH PENS CITY Agriculture Officer Emma Molina denied being remiss in her duties when illegal fish pens mushroomed in Dagupan rivers early this year, explaining that the responsibility of monitoring these structures was removed from her and was assigned by then Mayor Benjamin Lim to another office. Molina…
Molina blames BSL, exec assistant
INJUNCTION VS DEPED BAYAMBANG—Stay put. This was the order handed out by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in the case involving the Bayambang Central Elementary School (B1CES) as it issued a writ of preliminary mandatory injunction last October 31, four days after the lapse of the 20-day Temporary Restraining Order…
Court orders pupils to stay in new campus
AFTER HIRED KILLER’S ARREST LINGAYEN—Following the arrest last week of the lone gunman in the slaying of the former vice mayor here and his wife in March 2012, the victim’s family expressed hope that the mastermind will soon be identified and charged in court. Sual Mayor Roberto Arcinue, brother of slain…
Arcinue family seeks capture of murder mastermind
WEDNESDAY, November 13, is a non-working holiday in the province in commemoration of the birth anniversary of the late Speaker Eugenio P. Perez. Perez, born in San Carlos City, was the first Pangasinense to become Speaker of the Philippine Legislature (1946-1953) and helped secure the passage of the Bell Trade…
Nov. 13 a public holiday
HONEST KIDS—Supt. Lawrence Sison, deputy provincial director for administration of Pangasinan Police Office, assisted by some police officers, hands over gifts from the police command to Jayson Manuel, 11 and Theo Dela Cruz, 8, for their exemplary honesty in spite of their plight as street children left behind by society….