Gilas Pilipina’s embarrassing defeat By Jesus a. Garcia Jr. I WATCHED how our national squad “Gilas Pilipinas” lost its first game in this year’s FIBA Asia in Changsha, China to a greenhorn team, Palestine. Yes, I, too, was shocked on seeing a neophyte team that had amateurs in form from…
UNLI ACCESS FOR JUETENG. A patient in one government hospital described to me how jueteng bet collectors are able to operate “here, there, and everywhere.” Then he pointed them out to them, some even inside his hospital room that he shared with other sick patients in that hospital in central…
RESUMED TREE-CUTTING ALONG MNR LINGAYEN –The officers-in-charge at the regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Third District Engineering Office of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) have been asked by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) to explain tomorrow, Monday, during its regular session…
SCARBOROUGH SHOAL IS OURS—The fishermen from Infanta are joined by their lawyers Harry L. Roque, Jr., and Gilbert Andres of Center of International Law inside the Pangasinan State University in Infanta after signing and emailing their complaints to three United Nations offices, detailing various violations of their human rights by China’s state…
INFANTA–Sixteen fishermen from Infanta and a few from Sta. Cruz, Zambales filed on September 22 a complaint online before three bodies of the United Nations based in Geneva, Switzerland over the harassment and bullying perpetrated against them by state agents of China at the disputed Scarborough Shoal, some 120 nautical miles off Zambales province. Aided…
MANGATAREM—The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) based in Dagupan City recently launched its arboretum, a botanical garden of trees, in this town to remind Pangasinenses to love and care for indigenous trees in their neighborhood. Celso Salazar, community environment and natural resources officer in Dagupan City under whose…
CITY Mayor Belen T. Fernandez will leave for Chile to address more than 400 leaders from government, academia and civil society from around the world at the second “Our Ocean” Conference at the Sheraton Miramar Hotel in the Region of Valparaiso, Chile on October 5 and 6. Mayor Fernandez was…
THE MAYOR IS A DOCTOR — Mayor Belen T. Fernandez kneels to accept the conferment of a doctorate in public administration, Honoris Causa, by Lyceum-Northwestern University for her exemplary performance in governance. LNU president Dr. Francisco T. Duque III (4th from right) prepares to put the cap on her head during…
DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez received an honorary doctorate degree in Public Administration, honoris causa, from the Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU) on last week. The honorary degree was conferred on her “in recognition of her sterling performance as a public servant, businesswoman and philanthropist,” stated a resolution approved by the university’s Board of…
FORMER President Fidel V. Ramos led the groundbreaking rites for a library building to be named in his honor at the PHINMA University of Pangasinan on Friday. Set to be inaugurated in March 2016, the Fidel V. Ramos Library will be a tribute to the former President’s legacy and the…
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