FVR, JDV: inseparable duo By Jun Velasco MEDIA front: Undoubtedly, the Sunday Punch wields the baton in the province’s media leadership hierarchy. A new kid on the block, the Capitol Post is a Northern Luzon paper based in Lingayen town. It has started circulating in La Union, Ilocos Sur and…
Ms. Finela Tan Sim, game changer By Gonzalo Duque FIRST, our tribute to the late Salvador “Badong” Bernal, National Artist, of Dagupan City. The late Badong Bernal, closest “ campus political ally” of Jun Velasco at the DCHS Student Council and in their ill-fated Varsitarian presidential odyssey, was a…
25 December 0001 By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD TIME means many things to many people. And among other things, time counts its moment-to-moment passage in terms of minutes and hours, in forms of days, months, and years. Time also serves to note and remember memorable if not horrible events…
Cornering Cone is SMC’s master stroke By Al S. Mendoza WHY did San Mig Coffee win again? Only last October, San Mig Coffee won the PBA Governor’s Cup basketball title, beating sister-team Petron Blaze in a thrilling 4-3 count. On Wednesday night, San Mig Coffee captured the PBA Philippine Cup,…
Lessons to be learned By Bebot Villar RECENTLY, the people of Pangasinan became scared matapos ipalabas ang isang TV news noong Lunes ng gabi na may kumakalat umanong sakit sa lalawigan na dulot ng flesh-eating bacteria! Naku, sino naman ang hindi matatakot sa ganitong balita? There were two cases shown…
Cycling-minded Mayor Camacho By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. LAST February 23, the first of three scheduled Bayambang cycling road races was held. I directed the unique race participated in mostly by the town’s barangay captains and municipal employees with a total 47 contestants. Unique because I believe the event dubbed…
Hooray, Pangasinan! By Johanne Margarette R. Macob PANGASINAN, our beloved province, has continuously been making a name in the country as well as in the world with its developments in different areas of governance. We are doing well in tourism, as evidenced by the developments in major tourist spots and…
GM Crops to Feed Exploding Population By Crispin C. Maslog* THERE has been a phenomenally rapid adoption of biotech crops in a handful of developing countries — Argentina, Brazil, China, India, the Philippines, and South Africa — which have adopted such crops twice as quickly as developed nations. Together, these…
OVER “MYSTERIOUS DISEASE” ABS-CBN Network’s Bandila program has apologized for “unintended fear and panic” caused by its earlier erroneous report on a supposed flesh-eating disease that was spreading in Pangasinan, but not after undue panic and damage was done. In a statement issued on February 27, Bandila said:
SORRY ISN’T ENOUGH—Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. urges the members of the media to help the province recover from the ill-effects of an unfounded report of “mysterious flesh-eating disease is fast spreading in the province of Pangasinan”, The governor said he appreciated the apology issued by Bandila of ABS-CBN, but…
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