This show must go on! By Emmanuelle Count the city and the towns within this district, and you come out with less than ten digits. With forty-four towns and four cities comprising six districts of the province, this hint would make it a little harder for you to identify the…
Another conspiracy in the offing By Ermin Garcia Jr. There are questions about the ongoing illegal construction activity inside the Magsaysay Park in Dagupan City that just boggle my mind. If the city engineer says the construction was never issued a building permit, and that her office has no knowledge…
Pareng Oca’s clout Obos na? By Gerry Garcia FOR the first time since its conversion into a chartered city some 60 years ago, Dagupan is now blessed with construction of a pedestrian overpass over its most traveled highway in barangay Tapuac, especially in the vicinity of the Dagupan City National…
Orbos magic By Jun Velasco ONE lazy afternoon, a friend and a former “seminarista” were playfully making a gubernatorial survey somewhere in eastern Pangasinan, the political bastion of the Estrellas. While refreshing themselves in a little store, our friend approached a group of young people who were mimicking the Beatles…
Is Allan Peter Cayetano a liar? By Gonzalo Duque JUDGEMENT Day is less than two months away. Amayamay laray manggatel so ebet da o manggiwgiw. May the best man win, and may the worst lick his or her wounds. Hope you would learn a lesson or two from the exercise….
Believe in Bebot: Politics is personal ambition By Al S. Mendoza WHAT’S happening? Suddenly, almost everybody is backing out. Bebot Villar, my idol, said he is out as a gubernatorial candidate of Pangasinan. Next, we hear Art Lomibao, my phone mate, backing away from his bid to run for congressman…
Political twists By Eva C. Visperas One week more to go and Pangasinenses will finally know who will be the candidates in several elective positions in every town, city, as well as the provincial level of Pangasinan. Last Monday, Undersecretary for Local Governance Antonio “Bebot” Villar Jr. said that he…
RP-Japan project promotes peace in Muslim Mindanao By Sosimo Ma. Pablico An agriculture technical cooperation project of the Philippines and Japan that started in early 2005 is now promoting peace in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) by introducing new technologies that would help farmers improve their farming systems….
Poor Philippines By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. There seems to be no end to the sad plight of this country under not only the worse but still worsening governance of the present administration. Never before in its history has its people been subjected to shame and disgrace before the…
My forecast was right By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. PRIOR to the Barrera-Marquez world title fight, I told a lot of people – my cumpadres Recah Trinidad, Alfonso Mendoza, Adonis Peralta, Angelito Gumarang, my Mexican kinsmen Rolando, Rogelio, Dagoberto, Pete, Jr., my Filipino kindred Jazy, Alex, Bhots, my friends Jun…
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