SUE Ann Tumakay, a lady physician-assistant with roots from Calasiao town and San Carlos City, was voted as the new president of the Pangasinan Brotherhood-USA and will be sworn into office on August 24 along with the group’s new Executive Board members. Philippine Los Angeles Consul Leonard Maleon will be the…
Players make their winning moves. (Photograb from Facebook) THE Urdaneta City Chess Association (UCCA) bagged the championship title in the game of minds during the recently concluded 5th Mayor Carlito Zaplan Inter-Town Chess Team Competition held in Barangay Leet, Sta. Barbara on August 10-11. The competition played via a Swiss System format, was joined by 17 elite chess clubs in Pangasinan. Members…
Team Urdaneta wins Mayor Zaplan Inter-Town Chess tourney
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan passed a resolution congratulating and commending Carlos Edriel Yulo, the two-time Filipino gold medalist in the recently concluded 2024 Paris Olympics. Authored by Councilors Dennis Canto and Bradley Benavides, the resolution said Yulo’s gold medals in artistic floor exercise and artistic vault in gymnastics are…
Dagupan cites Yulo as inspiration for young athletes
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! AUGUST 18 – (Dagupan City)Lailanie Amorsolo; (Sta. Maria) Rowena Mae Crisologo, May-ann Crisologo AUGUST 21 – (Dagupan City) Crizza de Vera; (Manaoag) GLENDA PARILLA AUGUST 23 – (Dagupan City) Armando delos Reyes; (Calasiao) Diosdada De Vera Happy Birthday! PEEWEE R. GARCIA (August 19 – Dagupan City) Happy…
Birthdays/Anniversaries August 18 – 24, 2024
SA ginawang dialogue at consultation sa mga magsasaka sa Dagupan na isinagawa ng city government sa pangunguna ni Mayor Belen Fernandez at City Agriculture Office (CAO), naituro ni CAO Head Mary Ann Salomon, na sa pamamagitan ng pagkuha ng crop insurance, magiging panatag ang mga magsasaka kung may proteksyon ang…
MGA MAGSASAKA, HINIHIKAYAT NA IPA-INSURE ANG KANILANG MGA PANANIM
By Gonzalo Duque TWO precedent-setting cases that checked abuses of local Sanggunians must teach the Belen Fernandez administration how to deal with the recalcitrant seven members of the majority of the Dagupan city council. These cases — one in Quezon province and the other in Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya — involved…
Election will just be the reckoning
By Leonardo Micua THE six-month suspension of the vice mayor and nine members of the town council of Bagabag, Nueva Vizcaya for abuse of authority and dereliction of duty due to the unlawful delay in the approval of the town’s annual budget for 2023 and other measures certified by…
Councilors in Nueva Ecija suspended
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THERE are many things I have learned, skills that I can command to this day. However, like my friends Teresita de Venecia (Tess) and Armi Bangsal, I haven’t learned how to drive. I tried but ended up confusing left and right, and ended up driving…
Things we couldn’t do
By Farah G. Decano THE personal tragedy of 2024 Olympian Carlos Yulo touches our core as human beings and our culture as Filipinos. We tend to weigh on these issues based on the totality of our experiences. Arriving at a resolution may be tricky if we do not detach…
The chaos of Carlos (Part 2)
By Eva C. Visperas IDENTITY revealed! Yes, because the preventive suspension order has been served on August 12 against Urdaneta City Mayor Rammy Parayno. Following my previous report, the unfolding events have been both stressful and more damaging. In addition to the 90-day preventive suspension order, Mayor Rammy allegedly…