THE third season of the Basista Mayor’s Cup Basketball tournament reeled-off last June 15, at the Basista Municipal Auditorium participated in by 13 cage teams playing a single-round robin elimination format. The annual basketball cup was sanctioned by Jerus Ramirez, Municipal Sports Coordinator alongside Danny Ildefonso, Developmental Basketball League-Eastern Pangasinan Commissioner and…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! JUNE 23- (Dagupan City) Ramoncito Melecio JUNE 25- (Dagupan City) RENE MANIBOG JUNE 27- (Dagupan City) Renato Cendana Happy Birthday! DONG CRISOSTOMO (June 24 – DAGUPAN CITY) Happy Birthday! MIGUEL GALLIGUEZ & DJANELLA MONTEMAYOR (June 24 – MANAOAG) Happy Birthday! RON-RON TULIAO (June 25 – SAN CARLOS CITY)…
By Gonzalo Duque THE resignation Sara Duterte as Secretary of Education has been long in coming. Everybody has long been expecting her resignation. Many are aware that the Vice President has been treated as an outsider in the Marcos administration. It must be lonely to be an outsider but…
By Leonardo Micua WHAT should happen already happened. It was actually long overdue and obviously happened only after much contemplation at past 2 pm on Wednesday. The resignation of Vice President Sara Duterte as education secretary and vice chairperson of ELCAC finally happened. Most everyone felt this was long overdue since her…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo “I love you!” is too loosely said these days. Some say it and mean it. Others say it without thinking. It is sometimes shortened to “Lab u!”, when one is rushing, quickly ending a conversation. “I love you!” used to be sacred, intimate, shared on…
By Farah G. Decano ON the birthday of the late Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. this year, I suddenly remembered that the last three ordinances he approved on June 28, 2010 were my authorship: Magna Carta of Women in Dagupan City, Magna Carta of Global Dagupeños, and Gender Equality Ordinance….
By Eva C. Visperas EVERY day is a struggle, especially for people who live in the midst of conflict and war. There is no guarantee they’ll still be alive tomorrow. They face a grim life, always scared, always worried, always anxious about what the future will bring. It’s as…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I STILL recall the tale of Pangasinan’s famous single day annual bikefest which was eventually dubbed as “Werweran ed Mangaldan.” It was initiated and organized by former Mangaldan mayor, the late Atty. Macario G. Ydia, on March 7, 1974 in conjunction with the celebration of…
By Rex Catubig LIKE a movie reel, life derailed just when it was getting exciting. My father’s plan to move us to the house he built on a property he bought in Babaliwan was aborted. Then, life rolled again. After Grade 4 at the Calmay Primary School, it was…
THE nationwide celebration of the 126th Independence Day last week seemed hollow to many amid the tension in the West Philippine Sea. It was an oxymoron from the day Philippines turned its back on its independent foreign policy – friend to all, enemy to no one. Consequently today, we see…
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