By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER six weekends of hostilities since last September 25 with two days of pause on October 8 and 9, the province’s only multi-stage basketball cagefest this year, “Excellent Noodles Cup DBL Pangasinan Inter-Town/City/School U18 Basketball Tournament 2022,” only four teams remain unbeaten in the boys…
By Rex Catubig EVERY culture has its own unique way of grappling with the concept of death and redemption; of life here and life hereafter. Of life in full circle. It manifests itself in some odd rites and rituals: perhaps bizarre, absurd, irrational and fanciful. But beneath all that,…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE findings so far of irregularities in the implementation of the Dagupan City Scholarship Program are enough indicators that the program became a source for corruption during the 2019-2022 Brian Lim administration at the expense of children of poor Dagupeños deserving of government support. But…
By Al S. Mendoza SAN Miguel Beer’s Grand Slam dream may vanish yet again. That’s because June Mar Fajardo, the team’s cornerstone for the longest time, has been declared out of commission from four to six weeks due to a throat injury. That’s definitely a bomb explosion of a…
By Leonardo Micua SO, the gunman in the slaying of hard-hitting broadcaster Percy Lapid whose real name is Percy Mabasa, surrendered to the police after being bothered by his conscience. But the alleged middleman from the National Bilibid Prison implicated by the confessed gunman was found to have already…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo DID you know that frankincense and myrrh both come from the sap of trees? In my whole Catholic life, and that is quite a long period of time before I turned into what I am today, my teachers in religion did not teach me what…
By Farah G. Decano WE call the structure that houses several Philippine courts as the Hall of Justice. These courts are expected to dispense justice. Anything less is prejudicial to either or both of the contending parties. It is, therefore, the Court Administrator’s task to ensure that each edifice…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNKNOWN to many but known to diehard basketball enthusiasts (like me), this beloved province of ours has produced a professional basketball player from Urdaneta City and a potential superstar cager, as many say. But unfortunately, instead of playing in the PBA like what all…
By Rex Catubig THE Ferrocarril de Manila-Dagupan, the forerunner of PNR, began building in 1888 following a royal decree issued by King Alfonso of Spain mandating the laying out of a railway system in the island of Luzon. After years of extensive construction by Filipino labor, the railway started…
By Al S. Mendoza WAS Senate President Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri lying? Or was Huang Xilian, the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines, trying to save face? Zubiri grabbed news headlines this week when he said that China had blacklisted the Philippines as a destination for Chinese tourists. Almost immediately,…
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