World champions Melindo vs. Budler in Cebu By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. BY the time you read this piece the Milan “El Metodico” Melindo versus Hekkie “Hexicutioner” Budler International Boxing Federation (IBF) world light flyweight title fight will already be finished. As in the past, I will be there…
Sports Eye
Dagupeno athletes kick their way to the top by @SiRVis A travel journal that will give you a pleasant view of people, places, food, culture, history and events from a refreshing perspective THERE are a lot of Pangasinenses particularly Dagupenos who excel in their respective fields in the international…
The North Vista
MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL — The visibly irked Mayor Belen Fernandez did not mince words to rebuke Vice Mayor Brian Lim for accusing her that she wants the city hall transferred to another site badly because she is plotting to convert the lot occupied by the present city hall as…
Random Thoughts
War on drugs, a communication failure By Ermin Garcia Jr. AS the war on drugs progresses, the war’s critics and detractors have been busy discrediting it in mainstream and social media daily, and I must concede they have been effective to a great extent. Ironically, the war’s thrust and…
Punchline
Dagupan’s Thailand connection set By Gonzalo Duque YOU all saw it on TV. Pati fishing expedition ni Trillanes ay pinayagan to the obvious discomfort of his own son vice mayor Paulo and son in law, Atty. Mans Carpio. Pres. Duterte over the week end successfully demonstrated political will and…
Playing with Fire
Why we finished 6th overall in SEA Games By Al S. Mendoza WHO is chiefly to blame for our worst finish in the just-ended SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur? Our sports officials, who else? Most of them are nothing but a bunch of NPAs for the longest time. Of…
General Admission
The Subversive Power of Poetry By Virginia J. Pasalo “QUISIERON enterrarnos, pero se les olvido que somos semillas.” is a battlecry of the Zapatistas, a leftist group in Mexico. It means, “They tried to bury us, they forgot we were seeds.” This “Mexican proverb” is actually a paraphrase of…
G Spot
Guam invites Pangasinan, Dagupan youth cagers By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. MY first child Jazy just came back from his one month visit to Guam bringing with him an official invitation letter addressed to our province chief executive Amado I. Espino, lll and Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez…
Sports Eye
OUR HELPLESSNESS. The Philippines need not be over-confident or complacent over the uneasy development in the Korean Peninsula, which was exacerbated the last few days by North Korea’s test of its first hydrogen bomb, a weapon of mass destruction said to be more lethal than nuclear bomb. This was our original reaction to Facebook post of…
