WILD CARD MATCH-UPS LINGAYEN – The third season of the Governor’s Cup Inter-Town/City Basketball Tournament continues to heat up with its Wild Card match-ups, series that started February 2-3. Teams of Mangatarem, Asingan and Calasiao topped the ongoing wild cards as they shared the same win-loss stats (2-0) for each…
Bully-free schools, why not? AT the Question Hour of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan last week, the board members were confronted with the rising cases of bullying in schools after they invited the province’s division schools superintendents. Alas, only Division II chief came – Dr. Donato Balderas Jr. But by his revelations…
NATIONAL CHAMPION – Student dancers from Region 12 perform for the ‘Bayle”, street dance competition during the 2019 DepEd National Festival of Talents held in Dagupan City on January 31. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
AGE OF DISCERNMENT? THE national debate over the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility (MACR) rages in Pangasinan as well. The recent revelation of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) that the number of children in conflict with the law (CICL) in the province has been increasing over the last three…
PANGASINAN SCHOOLS DIVISION II LINGAYEN—There weren’t only two cases of bullying in Pangasinan, but 521 cases in Schools Division II alone. This was pointed out by Dr. Donato Balderas Jr. Schools Division II superintendent during the Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s Question’s Hour on bullying in Pangasinan schools last week. Balderas said the number…
SEEK THE TRUTH — Education Secretary Leonor Magtolis-Briones enjoins campus journalists from different regions in the Philippines to learn to discern fake news from truth during the opening ceremonies of the National Schools Press Conference at NRSCC in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE Department of Education and other social development agencies of the government are opposed to the lowering of the age of discernment to nine years old and even to 12 years old. This was underscored by Education Secretary Leonor Briones in a talk to newsmen at the sideline of the opening…
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