We need to play basketball in the Asiad By Al S. Mendoza IF you still doubt about basketball being our national pastime, think again. You see the game being played all over. In parks, playgrounds, multi-purpose complexes, etc. In almost every barangay, you even see a basketball court erected…
“Pepe” de sarapen, de kutsilyo de “dede”sen By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo SA daloy ng “pagsisilbi” mo sa gobyerno, merong kanya-kanyang haka-haka kung bakit takot ang Pangulong ikaw ay kastiguhin. Malaking bagay ang naitulong mo sa pagkapanalo niya bilang Presidente. Pero hindi iyon ang katuwiran, dahil marami nang sinibak ang…
‘It’s not just the triumph, but the try’ By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE earlier much-talked withdrawal of our national basketball team to this year’s Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games in Indonesia slated on August 18 – September 2 produced not only ugly reactions but frustration among Filipino basketball buffs. Netizens decried…
The greatest gift is Love Author Unknown By: Dr. Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story or an article I read in a page on www.academictips.org. I’d like to share, something we can all learn from. A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white…
Farewell, Mayor Al By Leonardo Micua AS a budding journalist in the in the 70s, who at that time was still finding his way in the city, I first met Mayor Al when he was yet running for councilor in 1971 under the Liberal Party whose candidates for mayor was…
HIGH TIDE STRIKES AGAIN — Mothers carefully lead their children to wooden planks to get to the West Central School to get past the flooding caused by the morning high tide. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
REGIONAL PNP EVALUATION LINGAYEN—A week after 13 police chiefs in Ilocos Sur, Ilocos Norte and La Union were sacked from their posts due to poor performance, six more from Pangasinan municipal police stations were also relieved on August 8. P/Chief Superintendent Romulo Sapitula, police regional director, ordered the relief of…
DAGUPAN City lost a father and a statesman when former Mayor Alipio F. Fernandez Jr. died early morning of August 9 after a lingering illness. He was 75. Fernandez, who served as mayor of Dagupan City for 12 long years, from 1992 to 2001 and from 2007 to 2010, succumbed to…
TO STUDY, RECOMMEND SOLUTIONS THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod agreed in principle to create a special Anti-Flooding Task Force that will study the causes of the recurring flood in Dagupan and recommend short and long term solutions to the problem. The creation of the task force was proposed by Councilor Jose…
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) is poised to ask the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) to check if individuals or corporations in Dagupan that received Environmental Compliance Certificates (ECCs) are strictly following the conditions attached to their certificates. This was sought by Councilor Nicanor Aquino, chair of the committee on land use,…
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