By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. OUR province’s team ‘Pangasinan Heatwaves’ in the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League (MPBL) returned to Calasiao Sports Complex last May 31 with another vengeance. This time it repulsed the highly rated Paranaque Patriots, 68-60, to the delight of the big hometown crowd. Our local boys…
By Rex Catubig TO paraphrase a writer’s words, “Why did our leaders aspire for freedom that people dream about, rather than provide them with food they cannot live without? In retrospect and context of the colonial past, with the discrimination and abuses dramatically depicted in two epochal novels, our…
By Gonzalo Duque A lot of things have been happening in the national scene lately. The reorganization of the Senate is one instance that happened preparatory to the 2025 local, congressional and senatorial elections. There will be a lot of realignments to be seen soon. Of course, many of the possible aspirants will be…
By Leonardo Micua KUDOS to Dagupan City for being the seventh of only nine cities in the Philippines and among the 1,000 best cities in the world in the Oxford Economies Global Cities Index. Ditto to Mayor Belen Fernandez and the people of Dagupan City (except the seven daw)…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THE first stories I heard about Barbara “Tweetums” Gonzalez-Ventura were from an equally vibrant personality, the late Josefina Geslani-Lolarga, who spoke glowingly about her book, “How Do You Know Your Pearls are Real?” I never read this book. In 2011, I was a member of…
By Farah G. Decano UNLIKE in some local government units here and abroad, Mayor Belen’s style of leadership, at least when I was her City Administrator, encompassed political and administrative matters. She was a micro manager in the good sense because she was aware of the smallest detail in…
By Eva C. Visperas IT happened a few months ago when out of the blue, us covering the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office’s activities were asked to form a new press corps by the police big bosses. We wondered why since there had been previous PNP corps some years back….
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WITHOUT a doubt, the talk of the sports world now is the NBA championships. We watched how the former champion Boston Celtics swept arch rival Indiana Pacers, 4-0, in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference championship series last week. Meanwhile, the winner of the Western Conference…
By Rex Catubig NOTE: This article pays tribute to the lives of those hardy individuals who dared to break out of the mold in a cruel and uncertain time, and face an unwelcoming world. The Pride Month of June seeks to review that world, to overcome the gay stereotype,…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. IN our editorial this week, we called attention to the misguided policy of the PNP that it is its responsibility to protect the privacy of arrested suspects caught in the act of committing a crime. PNP said the names of arrested suspects should not be…
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