By Al S. Mendoza SAN Miguel Beer’s Grand Slam dream may vanish yet again. That’s because June Mar Fajardo, the team’s cornerstone for the longest time, has been declared out of commission from four to six weeks due to a throat injury. That’s definitely a bomb explosion of a…
SCHOLARSHIP FUND, SOURCE OF CORRUPTION THERE were 25 dummy scholars, 31 flying scholars and 190 scholars with incomplete grades so far discovered from among some 2,500 scholars registered by the past city administration for the city’s scholarship program. This was confirmed by Mayor Belen Fernandez during her meeting with the…
By Leonardo Micua SO, the gunman in the slaying of hard-hitting broadcaster Percy Lapid whose real name is Percy Mabasa, surrendered to the police after being bothered by his conscience. But the alleged middleman from the National Bilibid Prison implicated by the confessed gunman was found to have already…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo DID you know that frankincense and myrrh both come from the sap of trees? In my whole Catholic life, and that is quite a long period of time before I turned into what I am today, my teachers in religion did not teach me what…
By Farah G. Decano WE call the structure that houses several Philippine courts as the Hall of Justice. These courts are expected to dispense justice. Anything less is prejudicial to either or both of the contending parties. It is, therefore, the Court Administrator’s task to ensure that each edifice…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNKNOWN to many but known to diehard basketball enthusiasts (like me), this beloved province of ours has produced a professional basketball player from Urdaneta City and a potential superstar cager, as many say. But unfortunately, instead of playing in the PBA like what all…
By Rex Catubig THE Ferrocarril de Manila-Dagupan, the forerunner of PNR, began building in 1888 following a royal decree issued by King Alfonso of Spain mandating the laying out of a railway system in the island of Luzon. After years of extensive construction by Filipino labor, the railway started…
THAT’S WHAT MADE THE SCHOOL WIN – A teacher at the Bonuan Boquig National High School in Dagupan City inspects the planted mangrove at the side of Longos river, beside the school. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
CLINCHES $50,000 TOP PRIZE THE Bonuan Boquig National High School in Dagupan City won the top spot in the T4 World’s Best School Prizes under the Environmental Action Category. The announcement was made during a press conference in London, United Kingdom, simulcast on YouTube on Wednesday afternoon, October 19. The…
THE committee report of a proposed resolution of the Sangguniang Panlungsod authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to apply for retention and select the five-hectare retention area of some 29-hectare property bought by Dagupan City in Awai, San Jacinto in 2002 has been approved by the legislative body, but not in the…
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