Of facelift, shabu and martial law By Ulysses Raciles Butuyan Presidential yacht to undergo facelift. A president needs it, too. Ilocanos still pushing Digong-Bongbong tandem. Only by those who have never heard of due process of law. Shabu seized inside provincial jail. Where can’t shabu be found? There is…
The elderly boy-driver By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ON the 30th of November 2014, early morning at 6:00 a.m., I boarded a Five Star bus to Urdaneta. I was the only passenger, and traveled with several sacks of vegetables which the driver picked in front of Balintawak. I commented that…
Mayor Bona scrapped Werweran’s tradition By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE fiesta celebration of my town, Mangaldan, this year started in mid-January and will end on March 8. Like in the past two years during the administration of our Mayor Bona de Vera Parayno, a lot of activities were organized…
The real indicator By Johanne Macob THE presentation of the administration seems to be very obsessed with the idea of the Philippines’ increasing gross domestic product (GDP) or gross national product (GNP). If I’m not mistaken, every State of the Nation Address by the President always has a portion…
COURTING PANGASINAN VOTE. Senator Grace Poe, whose presidential ambition at this stage now hangs by the thread because of the impending decision of the Supreme Court regarding her disqualification handed down twice by the Commission on Elections en banc, was among those who came to Pangasinan and wooed its voters…
HE’S MY VEEP! –Sen. Alan Cayetano acknowledges the crowd’s cheers after the introduction made by presidentiable Davao City Mayor Duterte as his only running-mate whom he wants to be with him in managing a government with zero-tolerance for corruption. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
PRESIDENTIAL candidate, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte took Pangasinan by a storm and pledged that a government under the Duterte-Cayetano administration will be corruption-free even as he reiterated his assurance that the country will be rid of drug lords. “I guarantee you, it will be a clean government. There…
IF he is elected president in May, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte vowed to double the monthly take-home pay of policemen and soldiers to support his pledge to stop the worsening state of criminality in the country. Mr. Duterte, who made Davao the most peaceful urban city in the Philippines…
ROSALES— Here’s bad news for pork eaters. About 100,000 backyard hog raisers across the country have ceased operations due to unabated smuggling of imported meat, according to the chair of multi-agri alliance of 33 farmers and agri-associations across the country. And, to protest the smuggling, Rosendo So of the Samahan…
LINGAYEN—The campaign to stop illegal drug trading in the province netted 19 top suspected drug pushers in various towns and cities in the province. The top wanted persons for illegal drugs nabbed by law enforcers in February were arrested in Alaminos City, Agno, Dasol, Infanta, Mabini, Binmaley, Lingayen, Malasiqui, Manaoag,…
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