Heart-warming advocacy of Pacquiao By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE saw how two of our three remaining world boxing champions successfully defended their diadems last November 30 at Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. Donnie “Ahas” Nietes demolished his Mexican foe Sammy Gutierrez via third round stoppage to retain his WBO…
The gift of forgiveness I ONCE heard that grudge is a double-edged sword. It wounds the other person as deep, or as shallow, as it wounds the one owning it. It’s like the concept of boomerang, giving you back what you throw. Also, the idea is like Confucius’ golden rule:…
BACK IN TOWN—Urbiztondo Mayor Ernesto Balolong Jr. holds a press conference at the town hall on December 4 after he was released from a one-week custody under the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in Manila during which he was accompanied by his son, town councillor Voltaire (left). The firearms and…
AFTER ONE-WEEK ORDEAL URBIZTONDO– Mayor Ernesto Balolong Jr. is back in his town after seven days in the custody of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) but the 21 firearms and hundreds of ammunitions seized from his possession remain on hold at the agency’s main office in Manila. “They (guns…
LINGAYEN–About a month after the capture of the lone gunman in the slaying of politician-couple Ramon and Zorahayda Arcinue, the provincial government released last December 6 the P500,000 reward to the person who provided information which led to the arrest.
INFORMANT REWARD—Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Z. Calimlim, Jr. (center) hands over the half million peso reward to the informant who gave a lead that resulted in the arrest of Guialaludin “Boy Muslim” Otto in General Santos last November, an alleged gun-for-hire who killed former Vice Mayor Ramon Arcinue and his…
THE Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) has turned down the request of the Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez for the transfer of the electric meter registered under it from the former MC Adore Hotel to the Malimgas Public Market. Decorp cited the pending libel complaint filed by the Citystate Savings Bank against…
THE fish pen owned by former Pantal Barangay Chairman Lilia Yasar located in the middle of the Calmay River could be the first to go among the 59 fish pens temporarily spared from the demolition of illegal structures as part of the Dagupan government’s drive to clear and clean the city’s…
LINGAYEN–“It will now be the word of a 17- year old boy against the four.” This was the terse reaction given to the media by Gov. Amado Espino Jr. when sought for comment on the retraction of a 17-year old witness who previously pointed to him as one of the…
SAN CARLOS CITY–The mother of the 17-year-old supposed witness in the planning of the murder of former Infanta Mayor Ruperto Martinez murder case has decided to fight for her son’s custody. Esther Aquino, along with her other children Jennelyn and Jerickson, filed a petition at the Regional Trial Court here for…
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