By Al S. Mendoza WE toast Hidilyn Diaz for her historic weightlifting win in Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Her gold was the country’s highest achievement in 97 years since our first Olympics participation in Paris 1924. Nobody can ever take that adoration away from her. It is a lifetime badge…
By Leonardo Micua WITH the serious threat posed by COVID-19 variants, including the more transmissible Delta variant, it may really just be a matter of time before Dagupan is locked down under the specter of a full-blown pandemic. God forbid, it will not! It was Mayor Brian Lim himself,…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ROSSANA Camarena, a poet from Mexico, posted an urgent call on her Facebook timeline: “I appeal to your sorority to take a few minutes and read this friend’s testimony. It is important and VERY necessary that if any of you have experienced something like this…
By Atty. Farah G. Decano LATELY, there has been an avalanche of attacks against new presidentiables. Last month, Senator Manny Pacquiao was Malacañang’s favorite punching bag. Now, Mayor Isko Moreno. The issue against the latter? A non-issue actually – that he wore a bikini in one of his movies…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE 16-day 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games ended last Sunday, August 8, and the accomplishments of our Philippine delegation this year was impressive and laudable. Ever since our national athletes started participating in the quadrennial meet in 1924 Paris, our 19-athletes delegation hauled a record four…
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story or an article I read in www.advance-africa.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. THANKSGIVING Day was near. The first grade teacher gave her class a fun assignment — to draw a picture of…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. AT the rate the country is going and managing the COVID-19 pandemic, people are obviously beginning to take the pandemic as merely a problematic numbers issue. Except for media’s sources of news updates, there are no human faces attached to the problem. This explains in…
By Al S. Mendoza THE first gold medal in Olympics history. Delivered by Hidilyn Diaz, the weightlifting wonder from Zamboanga City, the priciest metal in sports ended a 97-year gold drought for the Philippines in the quadrennial Games. I wrote this one day before Carlo Paalam was to gun…
By Leonardo Micua NOW that the Delta variant of the COVID-19 strain is baring its deadly fangs in Metro Manila and the whole nation, many people think that the continuous non-operation of buses from Pangasinan to Metro Manila and vice versa is actually a blessing in disguise for the…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo SOMETIMES, without warning, it grips me, the unpleasant feeling caused by a situation of uncertainty and threat. Although I try to think of pleasant things to distract my mind from it, it stays there, in the pit of my stomach, making my heart palpitate. All…
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