Battle royale in Calasiao By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. TWO days before the event I was informed that the second day of hostilities of the 2016 UCAAP Jimmy Fernandez Basketball Challenge will be held in Calasiao at the newly built Calasiao Sports Center. Surprised because for the last six years…
NO MORE SURPRISES. The new and hopefully final list of narco officials, past and present, set to be released by President Rodrigo Duterte, numbering some 1,000, should make those who waltzed with the devils despite their positions in government (and had long gotten away with it), nervous, sick and sleepless. We will not be surprised anymore if that list…
DAGUPAN- based Filipinas Wado Ryu Karate scored 10 gold, 5 silver, and 2 bronze medals in the Philippine Karatedo Federation National Sports Association Inc. national championship held on Sept. 9 to 10, 2016 at Fisher’s Mall in Quezon City. The winners are John Enrico Vasquez (2 gold for advance cadet…
Extra-judicial killings By Ermin Garcia Jr. THERE’S been a lot of brouhaha over extra-judicial killings (EJK) lately that suddenly created doubts in the minds of overseas communities about how war on drugs in the country is proceeding. Why did it come to this? Recall that when calls for “observance…
The Grand Torino story By Gonzalo Duque THERE is no doubt that President Digong is fast becoming a real and authentic leader of Filipinos. Even in a worldwide perspective, that is. Kayo ha, you thought, he was going to be a probinsyano president. Probinsyiano nga, but with a difference!…
Counsel to Obama, Espines & Brothers Baraan By Al S. Mendoza LET us say someone has wronged you. How would you react? You have two major choices: No. 1, fight back. No. 2, forgive. If you choose No. 1, that’d be un-Christian, disrespectful of the Good Book, which tells…
Asingan, Duterte, De Lima By Ulysses R. Butuyan SUMMIT IN LAOS: THEY ALL WANT TO MEET DUTERTE. They better not look like drug suspects. ASINGAN MAYOR DENIES ALLEGED DRUG LINKS, SAYING THAT THE REPORTED KOREANS AND CHINESE SEEN IN HER ALLEGED POULTRY FARM-DRUG LABORATORY WERE JUST CHICKENS. There’s more…
West Africans’ drug ring By Bebot Villar AUTHORITIES in the province should continue to be on the look–out for members of the West African Drug Syndicate or WADS who seek Filipina students to be lured to the illegal drug trade as drug mules! This syndicate uses this modus operandi,…
Lopsided wins in UCAAP cagefest By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. LIKE what I’ve always done in the last five years, I attended the opening of the UCAAP (Universities Colleges Athletic Association of Pangasinan) last week. Basketball is my third much-loved sport and used to play this game a lot…
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