By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. OUR province’s team ‘Pangasinan Heatwaves’ in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) returned to Calasiao Sports Complex last May 31 with another vengeance. This time it repulsed the highly rated Paranaque Patriots, 68-60, to the delight of the big hometown crowd. Our local boys…
By Rex Catubig TO paraphrase a writer’s words, “Why did our leaders aspire for freedom that people dream about, rather than provide them with food they cannot live without? In retrospect and context of the colonial past, with the discrimination and abuses dramatically depicted in two epochal novels, our…
THE discussion on the House of Representatives’ approved bill on divorce as an option for married couples and outcome of the Senate’s debate on the issue is becoming a very heated and emotional in many communities. As expected, the center of disagreements is the Catholic doctrine about marriage. Curiously, the…
DESPITE CALLS FROM 31 BARANGAYS MAYOR Belen Fernandez again entered the lions’ lair, the Sangguniang Panlungsod, on Tuesday (May 28) to appeal to the opposition comprising the majority to act on the long overdue Supplemental Budget No. 2-2024 amounting to P557 million, needed to implement the programs for 31 barangays….
GARBAGE DUMPING AT BRGY PANTAL – Unless and until the barangay officials of Pantal act to stop the daily dumping of wastes by commercial establishments and irresponsible homeowners for collection, the dumped uncollected garbage by the roadside of the De Venecia Highway will become a daily eyesore in the city to the embarrassment…
THE legal of the Department of the Interior and Local Government is being sought by the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod on three issues that continue to be a source of conflict. SP will ask 1) Whether or not a member of the body, who is on leave and overseas, can participate…
DAGUPAN CITY was recently adjudged 604th among the 1,000 best cities in the world and 30th among the 55 Southeast Asian cities after Mayor Belen Fernandez did the livestream interview from London by representatives of the United Kingdom-based Oxford think tank group for the Oxford Economies’ Global Cities Index. Fernandez was interviewed over a…
IN reaction to the approval of the divorce bill (H.B. 9349) at the House of Representatives, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas stressed that Catholic Church “cannot support a bill that makes legal what to us is a transgression of Christ’s sovereign will.” In a pastoral exhortation on the divorce bill issued…
THE Department of Health-Center for Health Development in Region 1 said there is yet no cause for alarm over the new COVID-19 variant ‘Flirt’ that was detected in other countries since this strain of the disease has not yet reached the region nor any part in the country. This was…
SANTACRUZAN 2024 – Young girls bedecked with flowers gleefully wave their letters to spell ‘Ave Maria’ before the start of the Mayflower & Santacruzan 2024 parade Thursday, May 30, 2024, at the St. John the Evangelist Cathedral. The grand Santacruzan is the culmination of the Flores de Mayo, a Catholic flower festival honoring Mary. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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