First times By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FANS of title-hungry Cleveland Cavaliers finally overpowered arch-foe and defending champions Golden State Warriors in the winner-take-all match last June 20 (PHL time)! Without a doubt, their heartbreaking 93-89 score stunned the Oracle Arena’s partisan crowd. Perhaps not known to many is the…
YOLO! By Johanne R. Macob “You only get one life. It’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.” GOT that quote from a book I am so in love with, which was eventually given a movie adaptation. A few days ago, a good friend and I…
PLAIN OBSTRUCTIONISTS — We missed another set of fireworks at the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) last June 21 when members of the minority bloc chickened out and refused to debate with the members of the majority bloc over the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. With them absent, methinks they again forfeited the opportunity to discuss the…
MINORITY NO SHOW THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), with six majority councilors in favor and one abstaining, has passed the city’s Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance during its regular session last Tuesday, June 21 to support the recently approved Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP). The measure was passed despite the warning of Vice…
SEA OF BOOKS — Students of the Dagupan City national High School pull out their largest books in the their school bags for the ‘drop-cover-hold’ routine during the drill held at the school campus last week simulating the occurrence of an earthquake with a 7.9 magnitude in the Richter scale. (Punchphoto…
LINGAYEN— Ten days before he officially assumes the highest elective seat in the province, incoming governor, Board Member Amado “Pogi” Espino III, disclosed to the media that his father, outgoing Gov. Amado Espino Jr., gave him one simple advice. “Gawin mo ang trabaho mo.” he said was all that his…
MAYOR Belen Fernandez, back from a speaking engagement in the United Nations from June 13 to 17, revealed it was the best practices of Dagupan that prompted the world body to invite her as one of the panelists to the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Laws of the…
LINGAYEN—The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in the region arrested 15 illegal drug suspects, three of whom are listed as top priority target in the province, this week. On June 18, the Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS) and PDEA RO1 arrested Christian “Botog”…
COMPUTER, SMARTPHONES & INTERNET WATCH out world! Dagupan’s senior citizens are determined to conquer the cyber world, never mind that they often forget their passwords for their Facebook, email and chat accounts. Since the Fernandez administration decided that no elderly will be left behind in the use of computer technology,…
THE awaited enforcement of curfew for minors cannot happen just yet. This was pointed out by Atty. Farah Decano, City Administrator, since no Ordinance Violation Receipt (OVR) has been approved by the city council for the purpose. “It (the ordinance) has not been fully implemented because it requires that we…
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