The tolerance of our time By Virginia J. Pasalo SR. Patricia Fox, a 71-year old religious sister, had been in the rural areas for almost three decades. In 1990, her congregation sent her as a volunteer to the Philippines. She worked with the poor in areas where government had no…
Dawal By Melchor E. Orpilla DAWÁL – (pamasuri/adjective) matpel a linawa o biskeg na linawa; andi-kebiew a puso, ag maitatakot, ag kalakalan nataktakot. (Saray malis to/its inflection/conjugation) marawal, mangarawal, marárawal, sangkarawalan, sangkamarawalan ALIMBAWA: Anggapu’y piparaan so dawal na saray atateng tayon simmungpa’d saray kakastila. Marawal iyan ogawan! Ag ton…
Team Lingayen is new champ By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WHAT was expected to be a close match between this year’s two finalists Manaoag and Lingayen in their third and final meeting at the Governor’s Cup basketball tournament turned out to be a shocking lopsided victory for the capital…
ENJOY THE POLITICAL CIRCUS—We know election is coming when prospective aspirants for national elective posts start going to Pangasinan, one of the country’s top vote-rich provinces in the country. These past weeks, newsmen have been invited to cover the visits of Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos, Senators Cynthia Villar, JV…
ALLEGED BLACK SAND MINING LINGAYEN—“We suffered a lot but now we are vindicated.” This was the sentiment expressed jointly by former provincial administrator Rafael Baraan and Alvin Bigay, of the Provincial Housing and Urban Development Coordinating Office (PHUDCO), upon learning that the Supreme Court had upheld an earlier Court of…
SOME 800 candidates in Dagupan City, mostly for the barangay elections, participated in a mass and the signing of a covenant for “peaceful, safe and drug-free elections” on April 24 at the city plaza. P/Superintendent Jandale Sulit, officer-in-charge of the Dagupan City Police Station, said he was pleased with the big turnout…
STO. TOMAS—It will again be another quiet campaign period and election for this town. The reason is that all the candidates for the barangay and sangguniang kabataan (SK) elections on May 14 in this town are unopposed. Out of the 10 barangays, only two will have new chairmen as the…
BANGUS FESTIVAL 2018 THE staging of Gilon-Gilon in this year’s Bangus Festival proved to be another colorful and engaging competition among clustered barangays of the city. Adjudged winner for the second time in a row was Cluster 1, composed of the eastern barangays of Dagupan City, besting four other barangay clusters on…
BINALONAN—Did Dengvaxia cause the death of a doctor from this town who received the vaccine against dengue two years ago? The family of Kendrick Gotoc, 38, believes so but the provincial health office is not convinced, saying the suspicion is “not conclusive”. Gotoc died on April 22 in a Quezon…
COVENANT FOR PEACEFUL ELECTIONS – Candidates for barangay elections in Dagupan City take turns in affixing their signatures on the tarpaulin pledging to help ensure peaceful elections. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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