The ordinary Jun By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo SO many people have described Jun Velasco in so many ways. Dante, his younger brother, described him as “… a tender-hearted brother and friend, a lyric poet, a journalist with a literary bent, a homespun philosopher, a singer Sinatra style, a combo organizer…
Goodbye JunV By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. LAST January 22, I was stunned to learn from my friend Passky that our good buddy Juanito M. Velasco (fondly called by his relatives, friends and media colleagues as JunV) suffered a heart attack on January 19 and was confined at Villaflor Hospital…
By: Dr. Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in www.moralstories.org. I’d like to share, something we can all learn from. The Pot of the WitAuthor Unknown ONCE Emperor Akbar became very angry at his favorite minister Birbal. He asked Birbal to leave the kingdom and go away. Accepting…
Dagupan SP sked on floating basis By Leonardo Micua PROVINCIAL Local Government Operations Officer Agnes de Leon’s warning to legislators that they risk administrative charges if they fail to perform their mandate to hold sessions, applies to all, including members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan City. We were informed…
NATIONAL CHAMPION – Student dancers from Region 12 perform for the ‘Bayle”, street dance competition during the 2019 DepEd National Festival of Talents held in Dagupan City on January 31. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
AGE OF DISCERNMENT? THE national debate over the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility (MACR) rages in Pangasinan as well. The recent revelation of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) that the number of children in conflict with the law (CICL) in the province has been increasing over the last three…
PANGASINAN SCHOOLS DIVISION II LINGAYEN—There weren’t only two cases of bullying in Pangasinan, but 521 cases in Schools Division II alone. This was pointed out by Dr. Donato Balderas Jr. Schools Division II superintendent during the Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s Question’s Hour on bullying in Pangasinan schools last week. Balderas said the number…
SEEK THE TRUTH — Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis-Briones enjoins campus journalists from different regions in the Philippines to learn to discern fake news from truth during the opening ceremonies of the National Schools Press Conference at NRSCC in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE Department of Education and other social development agencies of the government are opposed to the lowering of the age of discernment to nine years old and even to 12 years old. This was underscored by Education Secretary Leonor Briones in a talk to newsmen at the sideline of the opening…
EDUCATION Secretary Leonor Briones has urged the more than 3,000 students and their coaches during the opening of the five-day National Festival of Talents held at the Stadia in Dagupan City from Jan. 28-Feb. 1 to strike a balance between science and technology with culture and arts. In her speech,…
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