By Eva C. Visperas IT’S not surprising at all to see the number of surviving World War II veterans decline over the years, a somber acknowledgment of our mortality. Each commemoration of the Lingayen Gulf Landings and Veterans’ Day by the Pangasinan provincial government provides insight into the passing…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER three years of hiatus due to the pandemic, the world’s big sports activities like football, baseball, basketball, boxing, cycling, marathon, to name some, are on the rise again. Officials of five towns of our beloved province are finally ready to stage sports activities…
By Rex Catubig YEARS ago, a friend of mine took me to an impromptu whirlwind spiritual tour in the heart of Metro Manila. In what felt like a modern-day ferry across the innards of the city, and after enduring apocalyptic traffic, touring the St Jude church and the Padre…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE clarification made by Dagupan City Legal Officer Atty. Aurora Valle on the use of subjudice as a rule and invoked by the 7epaLiFes as a reason for junking the proposed Supplemental Budget for the Special Recognition Incentive (SRI) and gratuity pay of Dagupan City…
By Leonardo Micua IT doesn’t take one to study law to understand what members of the majority of the Sangguniang Panlungsod are doing to the employees of the Dagupan City government when the majority bloc said they would be violating the subjudice rule of the court if they pass…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THE world today, according to Michio Kaku, an American theoretical physicist, is witnessing the fast evolution of technology that is changing our lives. In the book, Physics of the Future, he gives us a glimpse into the technologies that will shape the next 100 years,…
By Farah G. Decano MY ever-reliable college secretary told me that a certain senior male educator was in disbelief when I was awarded by the Lyceum Northwestern University a Special Achievement Award during the university’s Christmas party. She understood his negative reaction to mean that I did not deserve…
By Eva C. Visperas AS we welcome the dawn of 2024, I find it necessary to write about the disheartening situation that characterized my beloved hometown of Binmaley throughout 2023. I wrote this piece on New Year’s Day with a deep sense of concern for the well-being and future…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THERE will still be no national multi-stage bikefest this year after efforts to do it last year failed. According to my reliable source close to our national media colleague based in Metro Manila, Dwain Badua of the well-known Dwain Entertainment, the people behind the bikefest…
By Rex Catubig WHILE the hotly debated issue of where Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed along the Lingayen Gulf’s color-coded beaches may never be resolved, the one incontrovertible fact that we Dagupeños are rightly proud of and no one else can lay claim to, is upon his return, when he…
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