FUTURE FIFA PLAYERS, FANS – Influenced by their parents and friends glued to their TV sets watching the developments at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, children imitate moves of popular football players during their school’s sportsfest. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! NOVEMBER 27 – (Dagupan City) Minda Torio; (USA) Celia S. Catubig; (Mangaldan) Arnold dela Pena; (Mangaldan) Clarissa Urbano NOVEMBER 28- (Dagupan City) Dante Castro, Perlita Gonzales; (Calasiao) Amerla De Vera ; (Manaoag) Aileen Vedana, Nenita Vedana DECEMBER 01 – (Dagupan City) Monalisa Fernandez; (Sunny Vale, CA) Daisy Ortiz…
DURING the campaign period, when then former Mayor Belen Fernandez was seeking to retake the post she surprisingly lost in 2019, she anchored her campaign promise on a firm pledge to rid the city government of corruption and to make officials that squandered the city’s resources that served under Mayor…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez never minced words to describe the criminal acts perpetrated by former officials of the Lim administration, from harassment of market vendors, proliferation of illegal fish pens, squandering the scholarship fund of the city, selective distribution of ayuda from the national…
By Al S. Mendoza THE latest news on John Amores, the obviously mentally troubled kid, is a bit troubling. Amores was expelled this week by Jose Rizal University (JRU), his alma mater. That was off-key. That was flawed. That was downright harsh. Amores did wrong, no doubt. By running…
By Leonardo Micua WHILE many people in Dagupan were still snoring in bed early Friday morning, Mayor Belen Fernandez and her staff were already raring to conduct a new round of inspection of the city’s rivers to see the progress of demolition of illegal fish pens by personnel of…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo HOW many times have you watched a movie and shifted to another in less than thirty minutes? There are others I’ve watched as a series, which are too long, and I quit in the middle, or almost at the end, knowing how predictable the outcome…
By Farah G. Decano LAST Thursday, Senator Raffy Tulfo took Senator Cynthia Villar to task about the alleged indiscriminate conversion of agricultural lots into residential and mixed-use developments. Coming from a family that develops land into subdivisions, Senator Villar defended their business undertaking and stated that they only target…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WATCH out for the Alcala, UL, Asingan, PAMMA teams! Alcala quintet that topped the elimination round in the Eastern Conference with unblemished record of six wins sans loss proved their worth anew by repulsing the host and unbeaten Western Conference elimination round champ, San…
By Rex Catubig HE only finished grade 6. Because they were poor. Life was hard and a constant struggle. He did all kinds of odd jobs—pushcart mover, barker, househelp–he had done it all. “Mairap so manbilay na siamiran anak” (It’s difficult to raise nine children), he sighed, though without…
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