By Eva C. Visperas DO you know how hard it is to cover the President? Having been in the media for 36 years, I have covered seven presidents during their visits to Pangasinan: Corazon Aquino, Fidel Ramos, Joseph Estrada, Gloria Arroyo, Noynoy Aquino, Rodrigo Duterte, and now Bongbong Marcos….
By Rex Catubig IT’S celebrated and immortalized in Karen Carpenter’s song. “Rainy days and Mondays”, she sang, “always get me down”. On the contrary, the rains, be it on Monday or Tuesday or whenever they come, have an exhilarating effect on me. Not in any jubilant way, but in…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! JULY 27- (Dagupan City) Renz De Vera; (Guam, USA) JULIE PARINAS JULY 31- (Dagupan City) Charlene Tabayoyong; (Manaoag) Marlon Soriano Happy Birthday! RICHELLE A. NOVALES (July 27 – Dagupan City) Happy Birthday! WINSTON SORIA, DENILLE PENULIAR & MIKE SALINAS (July 27 – Manaoag) Happy Birthday! ROSALIE R. AGAS…
FOR most Filipinos, the traditional State of the Nation address by the President is mostly about his administration’s achievements and giving himself a pat on the back for a “job-well-done” and to assure his constituents that all’s well, and the future economic and social plans are in place for their…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. DAGUPAN’s notorious 7epaLiFes at the Sangguning Panlungsod must be gloating over their successful efforts in embarrassing the Belen Fernandez administration for remaining in the cellar with the least creditable performance in public service among the cities in the region. Of course, the 7epaLiFes, dumb as…
THE Pangasinan Heatwaves breezed past Bicolandia Oragons in a high-scoring fashion, 113-91 in last July 17’s MPBL hostilities at the Caloocan Sports Complex. Michael Juico anchored the scoring load for Pangasinan who ruled in the post area with six points along with Michael Mabulac’s four points and six rebounds to gain a sizeable lead in the…
DAGUPAN City produced four bronze medalists and three finalists in the 10-day Palarong Pambansa held in Cebu City from July 6 to 16. The bronze medalists, members of the Dagupan Athletics in the Ilocos Region team, three in Taekwondo and one in gymnastics were: Mark Tyrone Reyes in the Gymnastics Mag…
“WE PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY, FOR BROTHER CHINA” THE Philippine government was called not only to stand in defense of poor fishermen who are prevented by China’s Coast Guard to fish in the West Philippine Sea but to stop the destruction of the rich marine resources in the area by foreign…
PEACE BE WITH YOU — A mass presided by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas with Bishop Napoleon B. Sipalay, Jr. Bishop of Alaminos Diocese and priests from Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, Dioceses of Urdaneta and Alaminos as concelebrants for the Marian Prayer Voyage for peace in the West Philippines Sea and for safety of fishermen of Infanta…
DAGUPAN City is trailing eight other cities in Region 1 in t performance in 2023, no thanks to the seven obstructionist councilors in the Sangguniang Panlungsod who blocked if not delayed passage of the 2023-2024 annual budgets and supplementary budgets. This was the terse explanation of Mayor Fernandez in an…
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