Knocking with both fists By Angel C. Gumarang ALLOW me (at the outset) to thank Sunday Punch Publisher-Editor Ermin Garcia Jr. for considering me to run a sports column in this prestigious newspaper. Boss Ermin’s invitation came my way with the advice that Sports Eye of my esteemed mentor,…
THE RULE OF THE RICH AND INFLUENTIAL — No one can categorically say what really happened to Asingan Police Station over the relief of 23 policemen last week, including its police chief. I received a phone call from a mayor in Fifth District asking for the reason why, in case…
Our 1,074 kapitans are drug suspects By Ermin Garcia Jr. PDU30 is expected to name local government officials in the war on illegal drugs’ watch list this week. Great! The only trouble with such an announcement is that, it will surely disappoint many barangays, towns and cities if their…
Dagupan PNP turnover By Gonzalo Duque AS we go to press, a confidant called up to report, that there are still pushers and users in Barangays Bonuan Binloc and Nueva, to name only two. One so-called youth leader in Bonuan is reportedly very much in it. The caller said…
Brutal, but we are in Rio merely to play By Al S. Mendoza LET me be clear with you. We are in the Rio Olympics not to win. If truth be told—and I must tell you the truth at the risk of being pilloried for being a KJ—we are…
On Emergency Powers and Death Penalty By: Ulysses R. Butuyan PUNCHLINE: WHO IS NOT AFRAID OF THE POLICE? Their wives and mothers-in-law, definitely. GOV. “POGI” ESPINO CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Will there be free dark glasses for the cross-eyed and brain food for some politicians? PINOYS AMONG…
Serious drug problem in Pangasinan By Bebot Villar THE PNP Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) reported that 1,074 barangays or 78.74 of barangays in Pangasinan are classified as drug–affected! Ayon sa Regulation No. 2, Series of 2007 of the Dangerous Drugs Board, a drug – affected barangay is defined…
Transition and Remembrance By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ANISHA Guro, a good friend and soul sister, is having separation blues with a bench at the University of Melbourne. She is starting to miss this particular bench, its peculiarity, six months before she is going to leave, having sat there in…
Enmity in Dagupan college caging By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. SOME college basketball coaches came to me to ask why some of Dagupan City’s well-known institutions do not try to patch their differences particularly in tertiary basketball competitions. The enmity between the two basketball groups (UCAAP and PRISAA) is already…
PASSIONATE SPOKESMAN — Fourth District Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario could very well be the Espinos’ spokesman. He spoke highly of the Espinos, especially the former governor and now congressman Amado Espino Jr. The resolution Rosario sponsored last Monday was about level upgrading of Pozorrubio Community Hospital, from 10-bed to…
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