Pacquiao to end career after April 9 fight? By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WORLD boxing reports here in the Philippines that Manny “Pacman” Paquiao’s third fight with Timothy Bradley will be his last. After all, Pacquiao himself already said win or lose, he will finally hang up his gloves for…
New year, new love? By Johanne R. Macob HAPPY New Year, everyone! I just felt like having that greeting start this article, for a change. (I usually to put my greetings on the last part of my articles). The ingress of the New Year is significance for me and…
APPLAUSE FOR SSS-DAGUPAN. I was impressed. I visited the new Social Security System (SSS) office at the Eastgate along A.B. Fernandez Ave. East, Dagupan City twice last week and there were no more long queues under the sun for SSS members. Instead, I found them comfortably waiting inside a spacious…
BUDGET STALEMATE OVER THE people of Dagupan City can now heave a sigh of relief. There will be no further delay in the implementation of projects in the city. City Mayor Belen Fernandez, in a phone call to The PUNCH last Friday before its deadline, said the stalemate over the…
OVER COMELEC RULING ON CITIZENSHIP BASISTA—Residents here formed a human barricade at the town hall starting at 5:30 a.m. on January 6 to press the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to issue a writ of execution after the Supreme Court affirmed the poll body’s decision for the ouster of the mayor…
THE Dagupan City Agriculture Office’s (CAO) “Bantay Ilog” task force has no plans of dismantling the illegal fish pens until it has completed the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of City Ordinance no. 2048-2015, prohibiting the establishment of fish pens. Emma Molina, city agriculture officer, said the IRR draft is…
RECALLING HEROISM – Eighty-nine-year-old World War II veteran Venancio Jimenez of Dagupan City recalls the events of his own guerilla days as he views the pictorial exhibit at the history wall featured inside the Veterans Bank branch in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
A HISTORY wall that now adorns the newly renovated Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB) on Burgos Street in Dagupan City may have finally settled the debate where General Douglas MacArthur first landed when the Allied Forces began their liberation of Luzon on Jan. 9, 1945. In a press conference before the…
GULF LANDINGS ANNIVERSARY – A staff of Pangasinan provincial tourism office arranges the positions of the 70- WWII vintage warship collection donated by Russell Leon Sandlin put on display for the 71st Lingayen Gulf Landings Anniversary and 9th Pangasinan Veterans’ Day Celebration at the Veterans Memorial Park in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to…
THE Pangasinan police bared the existence of two private armed groups operating in the province and are already being closely monitored and targeted for neutralization to ensure the holding of peaceful and orderly May 2016 election. P/Supt. Ferdinand de Asis, spokesman of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office, revealed this as he discussed plans during the election period (January…
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