Authentic development of bangus needed By Jun Velasco “From Binalatongan to San Carlos City – – tracing the heroic stand of a people against Spanish rule, one of the first open, mass rebellions that led to the early form of Philippine independence” – Pacebook BEHIND the veneer of Pangasinan’s Annual sea festival…
Blessings and prayer By Gonzalo Duque OUR partner Dr. Macky Samson of the University of Luzon surprised us last week. He brought along a well-known missionary, Sister Emma de Guzman, to Dagupan. A mass was held cum healing and prayer at our school, the Lyceum Northwestern University. According to Sister…
The young ones are as good as the young once By Al S. Mendoza I am glad, was overwhelmed really, over the response of our kabaleyans/kaluyagans to the first Pangasinan Literary Awards. Even Malu Elduayan, the energetic Pangasinan Tourism boss, was both ecstatic and euphoric about it that she couldn’t…
Wish list para sa next PD By Bebot Villar IT’S almost three weeks now pagkatapos na tanggalin as police provincial director ng Pangasinan si Sr. Supt. Rosueto “Boyet” Ricaforte. Pero wala pa ring kapalit si Boyet bagama’t in effect na ang kanyang relief order since April 2. Officer-in-charge lang ang…
Legalizing Jueteng By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD HERE we go again. Lately, another politico has the brilliant idea of proposing the legalization Jueteng – an illegal numbers’ game that exploits the poor and ignorant, that enriches the police authorities and public officials, with the gambling lords loudly and happily laughing…
Viva Pangasinan By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IT WAS in 1973 when our Pangasinan cyclists, led by this writer and my teammate and town mate Cesar Catambay, started the very first onslaught in Philippine road racings. It was then called the “Tour of Luzon,” the first professional multi-stage bicycle road…
Divine GPS By S. Bill Jimenez TRAVELING by car from New Mexico to San Francisco, we were advised to use the portable GPS Navigation System. My wife and I flew to Albuquerque to help our daughter pack and ship her stuff as she moved to a new assignment. Coming back,…
ASNA for journalism By Ermin Garcia Jr. I AM personally humbled to be named one of this year’s ASNA awardees but equally elated for the recognition by the provincial government of the role that a community journalist plays in the shaping of the Pangasinan’s generation of people, their economy, history…
Frank Sionil Jose and Pangasinan By Jun Velasco “Writers are unsung architects of the universe,” — Archibald MacLeish DURING the turbulent 60’s many of our young and “forever-young” adults would hang around two bookshops in Ermita, the Erehwon and La Solidaridad to be in tune with the intellectual outrage against US imperialism and…
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