GUICO HONORS BOY HERO WITH A HANDSHAKE – Gov. Ramon Guico III extends his hand to congratulate 14-year-old Leonard Sambrano after commending him for saving a 5-month-old baby girl and her 8-year-old sister from a burning house in Mangatarem town. Nothing is reported, however, whether the provincial government rewarded Leonard with…
A 14-year-old boy who saved the lives of two siblings, a five-month old baby girl and her eight-year old sister, from a burning house in Mangatarem was honored by Gov. Ramon Guico III during the province’s Monday flag raising ceremony. Leonard Sambrano, a Grade six learner in Central 1 School…
PUBLIC school teachers in San Carlos City joined the celebration of World Teachers Month last September 5 with the theme ‘’Together4Teachers” The annual month-long National Teachers Month that will end on October 5, recognizes the significant role of teachers in educating Filipino children and serves as a prelude to the observance of the World Teachers Day and National Teachers Day. …
UNLISERBISYO MAYOR Belen Fernandez welcomed another opportunity to market the products and help boost livelihood opportunities of participating farmer and fisherfolk groups and entrepreneurs who are based not only in Dagupan but also within Pangasinan when the Kadiwa ng Pangulo was hosted during the Dagupan City Farmer’s Day held at…
By Leonardo Micua FROM where I sit, I can almost feel the angst of rice retailers over Executive Order No. 39 issued by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., that mandated the price ceiling of regular-milled rice at P41 per kilogram, and well-milled rice at P45 per kilogram. Believing that the…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo SISTER Mary John Mananzan, a Missionary Benedictine activist nun from Bayambang, Pangasinan, told me that on one of her trips to Tagaytay, she followed a bluebird and it stopped at a property in Mendez, Cavite. It was in this property where the Women and Ecology…
By Farah G. Decano THE Philippines will be celebrating the Law Week this September so I thought of asking a young lawyer, who recently passed the bar, to write about her heartaches in and hopes for the legal profession. Atty. Iyay Vargas-Malicdem is a magna cum laude graduate of…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE 38,115-strong throng that trooped to the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan validated our love for the sport basketball. As ardent aficionados of this sport, I never missed to watch the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 games live on TV being hosted by the…
By Rex Catubig THEY are the calamity staple. Once referred to as “relief”, they have since mutated into the colloquial “ayuda” as food aid is called—a package consisting of a bag of rice, canned goods, noodles, coffee sachets, and the like—depending on the local government’s resources and “diskarte” or…
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