P1.791M for one hospital bed By Ermin Garcia Jr. NO purpose, rhyme or reason can ever justify the proposed P43 million budget for the planned 24-bed maternal hospital by the Lim administration. It certainly doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that to provide hospital beds at the cost of…
Pangasinenses are gifted By Jun Velasco “Love is blind that lovers cannot see.” – Shakespeare SO finally, our friend, famous paranormal genius Jimmy Licauco, he with the phantasmagorical mind, made it to Dagupan Tuesday and Wednesday, “Finally” because Gonzalo and this writer have invited him more than a year…
Licauco wows Pangasinenses By Gonzalo Duque IT was a moment to remember, Prof. Jaime Licauco’s two-day engagement with Pangasinenses. He first addressed the Pangasinan Rotarians at the Stadia led by main host Rotary Club of Uptown headed by Edwin Cancino. But credit all the Rotary clubs hereabouts including those in…
Talk ‘N Text ready anew for the Grand Slam Al S. Mendoza TALK ‘N Text is still euphoric over its recent PBA Philippine Cup victory. Well, we can’t blame the Tropang Texters. They did it in style, bamboozling the Powerade Tigers, 4-1, in the best of seven series. They were…
Psychological Incapacity 3/3 By +Oscar V. Cruz, JCD STRICTLY speaking, psychological incapacity does not enter into the sphere of full ethical accountability, into the realm of total moral responsibility – although neither does it altogether free someone thus incapacitated from all ethical liability or moral burden. Reason: The mind and…
Gumarang deplores basketball team selection By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WHEN I got word from my cousin Alex Aquino that the University of Luzon (UL) will officially represent region 1 in the forthcoming National Students Basketball Championship (NSBC) slated on February 27-March 3 based on what his son UL player…
Not yet ready for K+12 By Johanne Margarette R. Macob THE K to 12 is coming in June; no stopovers, no delays. I am not an expert to comment on the issue. I am neither a teacher nor a parent who will be affected by the change. I am not…
Is the mayor protecting the syndicate? By Ermin Garcia Jr. DAGUPAN City Mayor Benjie Lim and his administrator Vlad Mata can cry a river disclaiming any knowledge or participation in the sale of public land and issuance of waivers to businessmen along the beachfront along Bonuan Binloc but…
Violence in Bayambang deplored By Jun Velasco “No one will ever maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.” – Aristotle FORMER Speaker Jose de Venecia’s step mother, Porfiria Domagas de Venecia, widow of the late Judge Jose R. de Venecia Sr., who was fondly addressed…
Taiwan, here we come! By Gonzalo Duque ON Tuesday, Pangasinan Rotarians and our province-mates will have a grand time with Prof. Jaime T. Licauco, who is coming to treat us to a scholarly talk on the paranormal world, or better, universe. Now is the time to clear the air regarding these…
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