THE 4th Ittong Football Cup reeled-off at the Pozorrubio Sport Complex last June 1-2 saw the participation of 36 football clubs from Pampanga, Tarlac, Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur and Pangasinan. The featured categories in the two-day invitational kickfest were Men’s Open, Women’s Open, U17 Boys and Girls, U12 Boys and Girls, and U10 Mixed. The winners were: ICON…
By Gonzalo Duque OUR class of 1976, known as the 100 Percenters of BAR ‘76, had a meeting last week. We pride ourselves as the last batch from San Beda College that achieved that 100 percent mark that year. No batch had broken that record yet. Among those who passed the…
By Leonardo Micua THE report that 20 of our provincial officials were invited to the United States to attend the celebration of Philippine Independence Day with Filipino Americans and invite investors to the province looked like they have run out of valid arguments to justify their official trip, which…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo EIGHTY-six percent of the 119 million population (2024) of the Philippines are Catholic. The country is the only other place, aside from the Vatican City State (population 825), where divorce is not legal. The proposed law is being opposed by the Catholic Church, not necessarily…
By Farah G. Decano ANCIENT history tells us that war was not China’s bag of chips. Its people were more known to us as traders. In fact, even before the rediscovery of the Philippines by Ferdinand Magellan, our ancestors had been doing business with them. Unlike the people from…
By Eva C. Visperas HAPPY days are here for teachers, at least for one month! No tasks, no activities, no disturbances from their superiors. Just pure family and me time, to offset, albeit temporarily, the precious moments they should have spent with their loved ones, most especially for their…
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….
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