Starting them young By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER three straight years of inactivity, the on-off and fashionable Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) basketball tournament of Dagupan City finally returned last Saturday at the Dagupan People’s Astrodome with 20 teams from the city’s 31 barangays officially joining the competition. While I failed…
Pangasinanitude Nen Santiago Villafania PANGASINANITUDE – aya so impaltaw kon salita ed Inglis bilang sakey a pamagalang ono pandaragup ed kultura tan inkatoo na Pangasinan a nayarin tayon ipatalus ya “celebration of Pangasinan culture and character”. Masalindak ya atoor so Pangasinan Cultural Night tan intaguri met ya “Itandoro so Pangasinan:…
Aristos
My one peso inspiration By Raqueza S. Lalangan ONE peso brings a lot of joy to a kid, at least during my childhood. I always felt contented then whenever my mother or father would give me a one-peso coin so that I could buy myself a candy or a biscuit….
Young Roots
The P1.5 M question By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE opinion of DILG’s Legal Service Director Jesus Doque IV finding the city council resolution that was hastily passed in a special session called by Mayor Benjie Lim last April 20 as infirmed from the very beginning must have made the faces…
Punchline
Pangasinan writers pay homage to Perla Samson Nelmida By Jun Velasco “When the Great Scorer comes to write against your name, he marks not whether you won or lost but how you played the game,” Grantland Rice, American sportswriter who died 1954 UNBELIEF, a mortal sin when applied to Christian tenets, has…
Think about it
Basura, basura, basura, basura, basura, basura… By Gonzalo Duque WE could go ad infinitum. Why are we going nuts over our garbage problem in the city? Why not? Are you not? It should in fact be the first, the most basic and the most elementary issue that should face…
Playing with Fire
Pacquiao defeat produced more questions than answers By Al S. Mendoza I goofed. I win some, I lose some. Life’s indisputable rule. I said Manny Pacquiao would win. By knockout inside six rounds. It didn’t happen. Pacquiao did not even win by decision. He lost by split decision to…
General Admission
Kawawa si Madelaine at ang Dagupan By Bebot Villar HOW many more innocent lives would be sacrificed because of the evil effects of drugs? At kailan din kaya matatauhan ang mga local leaders natin before they finally get their acts together for a no-nonsense anti-drug abuse campaign? Kailangan pa bang…
Deretsahan
Gambling Economy By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD THERE are no less than some thirty two (32) different forms of illegal gambling in the Philippines – from “Alpor” to “Video Karera.” Furthermore, there are also more than seventeen modalities (17) of the called legal gambling in the country – from Bacarat…
Viewpoints
Contentious judgment By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. BOXING enthusiasts all over the world were stunned when the verdict was announced that Manny Pacquiao’s opponent,Timothy Bradley, was the winner by split decision, wresting the World Boxing Organization welterweight title. The verdict produced a lot of uproars from countless people from all…




