Olympic, FIBA Asia, IOC blues By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. IN the last few days, there were disturbing wire reports in the world of sports that affected our national athletes in world competitions especially in the much-awaited 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games that was supposed to be staged last year…
Your good deeds could change the world Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s an article I read in www.thoughtcatalog.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. “EVERY Sunday morning, I take a light jog around a park near my home. There’s a…
Learnings in Life
Is MGCQ the way to go? By Leonardo Micua CAN the country now afford to adjust its status to the less restrictive Modified General Community Quarantine (MGCQ) by March 1 as recommended by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) fortnight ago? This question will be answered soon by officials tasked…
Random Thoughts
OUTNUMBERED BUT NOT OUTSMARTED — The fisherman in Binmaley suddenly finds himself competing for fish to catch with almost a hundred birds hovering over him and diving on all sides. As expected his haul for the day was greatly minimized by the hungry birds. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
OUTNUMBERED BUT NOT OUTSMARTED
TARGET PERIOD: MARCH THE provincial government had endorsed the request of three bus companies for special permits from the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board that will allow them to resume their inter-provincial operations from Pangasinan to Metro Manila and vice versa. This was confirmed by Provincial Legal Officer Geraldine Baniqued who said Governor…
Resumption of provincial bus operations urged
DEATH CERTIFICATE, PROSECUTORS’ RESO AMIDST persistent claims and suspicions from some quarters that controversial former board member Raul Sison is still alive, his son, mayor of Urbiztondo, reiterated his family’s earlier announcement that his father died on March 26, 2020 from COVID-19. Mayor Martin Raul Sison posted a video message…
“My father died on March 26, 2020” – Mayor Sison
ESPINO AMBUSCADE ONE of three principal suspects in the ambush of former Congressman Amado Espino Jr., arrested by joint police teams in Poblacion, San Juan, Batangas last February 7 and already detained at the Basista Police jail, was served with six warrants of arrest on February 15. The suspect, Armando…
Jailed suspect served 6 more arrest warrants
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan joined other legislative bodies of local government units in calling for the suspension of the implementation of the controversial Private Motor Vehicle Inspection Centers (PMVICs), days after President Rodrigo Duterte ordered that requiring vehicles to go to PMVICs before a vehicle can be registered is not mandatory….
SP joins call for PMVIC suspension
ONLY 287 NEW CASES THE Provincial Health Office (PHO) reported that, as of February 18, a decline in cases in Pangasinan was noted with only new 287 active COVID-19 cases registered, 255 of which were from affected towns and cities while 32 were from Dagupan, an independent component city. The…