(A corollary homage to commemorate Dagupan’s 75th Diamond Jubilee) By Rex Catubig I did not get to know Pangasinan’s political luminary, Speaker Eugenio Perez Sr, who authored the charter that made Dagupan into a City. But growing up in the 1960’s, I was fortunate to have had personal encounter…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. IT’S been more than 75 days and still nothing is heard from Guv Mon-Mon Guico about developments and current issues in Pangasinan! Who’s running the provincial government? Is it already Vice Guv Mark Lambino holding the reins? The continued silence of the governor on the…
By Al S. Mendoza WILL Navarro was hot news this week on the sporting front. Not because of his on-court skills but, alas, on his off-court misstep of monumental proportions. Navarro was a star of the Ateneo basketball team that won multiple times in the UAAP events in recent…
By Gonzalo Duque LAST week, I traveled to Northern Luzon to visit my brods and friends in that area. You know, the Duque clan originated from Paoay, Ilocos Norte. On my way to Ilocos Norte, I had a stopover in Vigan City where I and company had a nice conversation…
By Leonardo Micua THOSE who are not concerned about the disappearance of Coca-Cola and its allied products in the shelves of supermarkets and sari-sari stores, we would like to announce we do and it matters to us. This even if we are not a drinker of Coke nor a…
By Farah G. Decano THE right to be forgotten is a relatively new concept in the legal arena. It first arose in 2014 when a man from Spain asked Google to erase his links that pertained to his past records of bankruptcy. Because of the giant search engine’s refusal,…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE have witnessed how the world’s economy was derailed by the COVID-19 for three years (2019-2021) and reportedly killed millions of people worldwide. As true believer of our Holy Bible, I expected this to happen given what was written in the Good Book in…
By Rex Catubig I woke up to a stacticky radio on Saturday, September 23, 1972. No matter how I twiddled the dial, there was only hissing and crackling. And there was no newspaper, either. I was waking up to a bad dream, I thought. I hurriedly took a jeep…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THAT trash piled up at the Dagupan dumpsite in Bonuan during the Lim administration is old news. Nothing surprising there. But the new trash that continues to pile up in Dagupan City are news about the reports of corruption that fed the insatiable greed of the…
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