You won your love but no romance on wedding night By Al S. Mendoza WEIRD, it was. I mean, we won but we could not celebrate. We won but our cheers were banned. We won but we could not flaunt the triumph, let alone breast-beat. What kind of a…
Of Duterte, drug lords, pork barrel By: Ulysses R. Butuyan CHINA TOLD: WORLD IS WATCHING YOU. China replies: We are just waltzing you around. DUTERTE STARTS PRESIDENCY WITH EXCELLENT TRUST RATING. Drug addicts and pushers trust him, too. They’re now surrendering, fearing for their lives, as the drug lords…
Punching Bug
Surrender or else By Bebot Villar ACCORDING to PNP Chief Bato dela Rosa, more than 65,000 drug users and pushers have voluntarily surrendered since the anti–illegal drugs crackdown started. Kasama na dyan ang napabalitang 1,177 na sumuko sa Urdaneta City na nasaksihan mismo niPDEA Director General Isidro Lapeña at ilang city elective and police officials! Even a…
Deretsahan
Ransacked By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. LIKE in previous years, I covered the first leg of the Milo Marathon qualifying race that started at Judge Jose de Venecia, Sr. Boulevard and finished at the compound of CSI Mall dawn of July 17. For the first time in this annual footrace, my two sons participated in. My eldest and my…
Sports Eye
Here comes his SONA By Johanne R. Macob TOMORROW, Monday, July 25, we will all be hearing and seeing a very fresh take of the State of the Nation Address (SONA) event. This is not merely because we have a new president, but more so, because the new president…
Young Roots
BINCE BROTHERS, NOT SO ALIKE. As expected, the provincial board of Pangasinan is never the same again without Sixth District Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr. This, I frankly told Sir Alfie, in a phone call immediately after the board’s session on July 18. It was like eating bland food, I told the very…
Random Thoughts
6,230 DRUG USERS, PUSHERS SURRENDER PERFORM or be relieved! This was the warning issued by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office to police chiefs in the province who are deemed not doing enough to eradicate illegal drugs in their jurisdiction. P/Police Supt. Jackie Candelario, Police Community Relations Office head, said P/Sr. Superintendent Ronald Oliver Lee, acting-provincial…
Non-performing police chiefs warned
LINGAYEN—There are no vigilante groups in Pangasinan, so the reported killings or ‘salvaging’ of drug pushers were likely the results of the “purging” among suspected drug personalities, particularly by those who refuse to surrender, police officials said. P/Senior Supt. Ronald Oliver Lee, acting police director, said Thursday killings of suspected drug personalities are happening…
No known vigilante groups in Pangasinan
TWICE-A-YEAR TESTING LINGAYEN— To boost efforts of the provincial government in the campaign against illegal drugs, Gov. Amado Espino III said he wants to require all employees of the provincial government not only to take a drug test once but twice a year. In an interview last July 20, Mr….