Binmaley vs. Alaminos and Manaoag By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNLIKE its first game against Mangaldan that resulted in a come-from-behind victory for defending champion Binmaley, 100-94, the subsequent two games of Binmaley in the Group A quarterfinals of this year’s Governor’s Cup Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament against Alaminos City…
Sports Eye
“Control Your Temper (Anger)” By Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in a page in wealthygorilla.com. I’d like to share, something we can all learn from. THERE once was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to hand him a bag of…
Learnings in Life
GANDA MO PULIS — Good-looking policewomen will be assigned as desk officers in police stations. That’s under the administration of new Police Regional Director Romulo Sapitula. He shared this information during his Bombo Radyo Dagupan interview Thursday. I’m glad to know Sapitula is exerting efforts to have media/radio interviews, thanks…
Random Thoughts
FOR CONFISCATING CHICKEN MEAT THE city veterinarian and two others in Alaminos City were recently convicted by the Sandiganbayan for their unjustifiable confiscation of 2,455 kilos of chicken meat from a private complainant. In a 37-page decision, the anti-graft court found the City Veterinarian Ronaldo Abarra, Meat Inspector Joseph Soriano…
Sandiganbayan convicts Alaminos City vet, 2 others
AMID the controversy over the mass vaccination of Dengvaxia in the country, a sudden rise in the dengue cases in Pangasinan was noted. The Pangasinan Provincial Health Office is on alert over reports that 200 cases alone were reported last week, resulting in 534 cases and two deaths for the…
PHO on alert over sudden rise of dengue cases
THE municipality of Binalonan has been validated as drug-free by the regional oversight committee during the ceremonial declaration in the town on February 7. The declaration made the town the 15th to be declared drug-free in Pangasinan. P/ Chief Inspector Lovell Dalisay, Binalonan chief of police, said all the 24…
Binalonan, 15th town declared drug-free
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) officially declared the municipality of Aguilar drug-free last Friday, February 8 and became the 16th town validated by the regional oversight committee as drug free in Pangasinan. PDEA Deputy Director Marvin Tavares was accompanied by Congressman Ace Barbers, chair of the House committee on…
Aguilar declared drug-free
ASHOK Vasandani, a known Fil-Indian businessman in Dagupan City, was wounded in a gun attack Tuesday night while on his way home at Castro Sarmienta Village, Barangay Bolosan here last Tuesday, February 6. Vasandani, who joined Sunday PUNCH as one of its columnists, was driving his black Toyota Vios when…
Ashok wounded in gun attack
NOTWITHSTANDING the reported rice shortage in Metro Manila, the National Food Authority (NFA) Pangasinan has assured Pangasinan households that there is enough buffer stock of rice for the consumers in the province. Chona Maramba, OIC-assistant manager of NFA-Western Pangasinan said while there are only 16,000 bags of NFA Rice at…
