By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I’M making this piece prematurely, April 4, because of the seven-day (April 2-9) Lenten season break. So, I believe that you, my co-basketball aficionados had already watched on TV the April 9 (Easter Sunday) first game of the best-of-seven series of this year PBA’s Governors’…
By Rex Catubig IN early 1990’s, Mayor Al Fernandez pioneered the staging of Bangus harvest or Gilon in his fish farm as entertainment for visiting Balikbayans. Then in 1997, when Councilor Belen Fernandez was appointed Chairman of Agew na Dagupan, she tapped Resty Fernandez, fresh from a choreography workshop…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE seven Dagupan City councilors in the majority have, without a doubt, earned their ignominious places in the city’s political history. For the first time, the city was told by a bunch of arrogant and egoistic legislators that its residents do not deserve any help…
By Leonardo Micua IT was a crying time at Dagupan City Hall up to 5:00 p.m. of March 31. There were 769 job order employees who bade goodbye to their work just three days after the seven majority councilors in the Sangguniang Panlungsod put the final nail to their “coffin”…
By Farah G. Decano THE Dagupan City budget was finally enacted last Tuesday but not without severe slashes from the opposition councilors who comprise the majority. Their main contentions are errors and lack of transparency. One error pointed out by the so-called Magic 7 is the wrong computation of…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I WAS invited as race consultant to the Mapandan bikefest last March 25 to assist and observe the event closely knowing that majority of the 76 contestants were young and amateur riders, largely inexperienced in this kind of event. The 42-kilometer bikefest was initially…
By Eva C Visperas AT the posh Monarch Hotel where the press briefing for the Limgas na Dayat 2023 was held on March 26 with 25 lovely candidates vying for the coveted title, I, together with some media friends, had the privilege to interview Pangasinan First Lady Maan Tuazon-Guico,…
(Second of 2 parts) By Rex Catubig LORETA, now 74, recalls that one day, the Americans came knocking at her grandparents, Bae Placida Viray and Laki Bonifacio Cruz’s house looking for lodging. They rented the house. But finding its thatched roof too hot for comfort, they had it replaced…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE unprecedented move of Mayor Belen Fernandez appearing before the committee of finance and appropriations t where the 7 epaLiFes hold sway, to defend the annual budget got an immediate, predictable response! They demanded the presence of the all the department heads in the next…
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