SISIMULAN nang itayo ang kauna-unahang 2-storey 4-classroom school building para sa mga mag-aaral ng Lasip Grande Elementary School. Mga kasama para pasimulan ang proyekto ay sina Vice Mayor BK Kua, Councilors Michael Fernandez, Dennis Canto, DepEd School Division Superintendent Dr. Rowena Banzon, DepEd Engr. Tatum Grace Manzano, Public Schools District…
By Rex Catubig NOTE: I’m reprising this previous column in support of the National Mental Health Awareness Month and to give a face to the menace of suicide that afflicts even the seemingly normal person, robbing the young of their power to dream and cutting short the future that…
Enigma of suicide
FOR MOM GINA DE VENECIA — Congressman Toff De Venecia holds the copy of the certificate of candidacy he filed for his mom, former Congresswoman Gina, seeking to succeed him as next House Representative in the Lower House, a post she held before he succeeded her. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FOR MOM GINA DE VENECIA
THERE must be something inherently wrong with the mindset of both the voting populace and the candidates vying for positions that Commission on Elections (Comelec) has to set stringent rules and guidelines on campaign activities. Over the past decades, Comelec issued rules vs. vote-buying, designation of common poster areas, limitations…
Another unenforceable Comelec rule
MOTHER-SON LIM TEAM IN DAGUPAN – Councilor Celia-Chua Lim and son, former mayor Brian Lim, who filed their COCs for mayor and vice mayor, respectively, give the “L” hand sign together with their candidates for city council: Dada Reyna Macalanda, Alvin Coquia, Malou Fernandez, Alfie Fernandez, Red Erfe-Mejia, Irene Lim-Acosta, Christopher Lim, Benedict Cayabyab, Leo Cuaton…
MOTHER-SON LIM TEAM IN DAGUPAN
SAVING THE PALAY –Farmers in Barangay Naguelguel, Lingayen rush to thresh their newly-harvested palay amid forecasts of rainfall in days ahead. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
SAVING THE PALAY
BALON BAYAMBANG – Mayor Niña Jose-Quiambao leads celebration of Tourism Month Celebration at Balon Bayambang Events Center featuring cultural and musical presentations highlighting the town’s historic growth! (Photograb from Facebook)
BALON BAYAMBANG
UNLISERBISYO DAHIL kompleto na ang proyektong ito sa Sitio Polong-Sentro, Brgy. Pantal, “smooth na smooth” at maayos nang nakakapasok ang mga mag-aaral sa Pantal Elementary School sa nagsisilbing access road patungo sa kanilang paaralan. Ayon sa mga residente, “Malaking tulong po sa amin na hindi na nababaha ang daan namin”….
BAGONG GAWANG KALSADA SA SITIO POLONG, PANTAL SENTRO TAPOS NA
By Rex Catubig “ I Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” ― T.S. Eliot YOU’D think that fifty years of friendship would be arduous for ebbing memory to process and recall. But for twelve unending hours one Saturday past, memories…
Bonfire of banalities: The fire of October
THE worsening corruption of the country’s elections under the cover of a democratic system will again take a heavy toll not only on both the candidates and voting populace for the 2025 election but in the next administration of the local government. Already high in the minds of voters during…