Recalling my first Singapore visit By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. SINGAPORE – I’m making this piece here in this booming and beautiful city-state considered as the cleanest place in Asia. I’m here this time for a three-day respite to unwind my mind, loose some woes that I encountered way…
That cemetery is home By Johanne Margarette R. Macob ALMOST a decade ago and the years before that, the cemetery was a strange place for me, even on all souls’. I wasn’t used to visiting any relatives’ tombs even my grandpas and grandmas’ (as I found the idea awkward…
DESPERATE FOR CASH THE cash-strapped Dagupan City government is desperate to get hold of funds to cover the city’s projected P29.68 collection shortfall that will end in a huge deficit at the end of the year. Mayor Belen Fernandez is now looking at “baratillos” organized by the city during fiestas…
THE Dagupan City government is in a dilemma. Should the government pay contractors for completed projects that didn’t go through the required bidding process? How should the unfinished yet unbidded projects be considered? The questions arose after Mayor Belen Fernandez was informed of the pending claims before the city government…
LINGAYEN— The recently concluded barangay elections in the 44 municipalities and four cities in the province was “generally peaceful.” This was the assessment of the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) even after it listed 90 barangays in 26 municipalities and four cities as “areas of concern.” P/Chief Insp Inspector Ryan…
IN barangay Poblacion Oeste, eighty-two year old Lolita Vallejos finally prevailed over her son Joseph, 44 and another candidate Alfredo Ordonio in what was billed as the highly emotional political family feud in the city. She cried when she was declared the barangay chairwoman beating her own son who declined to…
MAYOR Belen Fernandez congratulated all the winners in the just concluded barangay election in 31 villages of Dagupan and for helping keep the peace in their respective communities. She said she looks forward to working with them to improve the situation and uplift the life of their constituents. The mayor said…
MARCH OF SAINTS—Students of catholic schools in the archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan don costumes to portray the images of saints revered by the Filipino Catholics, among them Pope Gregory the Great, Pedro Calungsod, Lorenzo Ruiz, Augustine of Hippo, Francis de Sales, John of the Cross, John Vianney, Padre Pio, Catherine of…
MOVE OVER HALLOWEEN HUNDREDS of parishioners of the St. John The Evangelist Parish in Dagupan City joined the first-ever white “March of the Saints,” a costume parade with a novel twist. Instead of the usual Halloween costumes depicting evil spirits and zombies, participants dressed up in costumes honoring revered saints…
A STORY FROM LOLA BASYANG-–Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez takes time out as a mayor to be a storyteller to Day Care Center pupils for her project “Mga Kuwento ni Lola Basyang.” Senior citizens have been tapped as storytellers, and to teach the kids good moral values and character. (Contributed…
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