By Farah G. Decano FLORANGEL Rosario Braid honored her city of birth anew by naming her recently launched book, “TAGPO: Right Place and Right Time.” Her book chronicles her life and the opportunities she encountered at the right time and right place. Dr. Braid is a much respected intellectual…
By Eva C. Visperas ON Tuesday evening, September 19, 2023, I had to set aside all my scheduled tasks, prompted by a message from a fellow Puncher, Farah Decano. She invited me to join a virtual program of Lyceum Northwestern University’s Rule of Law Month, Gender Card event, featuring…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE much-anticipated 2023 Asian Games have kicked off in Hangzhou, China, and it’s the talk of the town for sports enthusiasts across our nation. The event encompasses a wide array of sports sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), including boxing, basketball, volleyball, football,…
By Rex Catubig I GREW up in the movies. And the post of Herencia del Filipinas of a vintage movie house purportedly in Dagupan, awakened a montage of dormant fleeting memories of the silver screen. As a boy in the barrio, the blaring announcement by a roving caravan of…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THAT’S the battle cry of the Belen Fernandez administration to rally sectors affected by the lost support and benefits that her 2023 annual budget promised after the 7 epaLiFes (majority in SP) engineered to deprive them of these. Mayor Belen urges her supporters, ILABAN SU BALEY!…
By Leonardo Micua IT may bode well for Dagupan that the League of Cities of the Philippines took cognizance of the fact that Dagupan City is still without an annual budget, the only one in the entire archipelago operating on a measly reenacted budget, a budget never sufficient to serve…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo “HE appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The…
By Farah G. Decano DURING the recently held seminar on human rights education held on September 12 and 13 in Iloilo City under the auspices of the Human Rights Institute (HRI), the latter proved to the participants that it does practice what it preaches. The HRI is the education…
By Eva C. Visperas THE municipal hall of Calasiao suddenly became alive again. Someone so familiar, whose family they have learned to love and adore, arrived. The day Patrick Caramat came to the Comelec office to file his COC as barangay captain of Nalsian, Calasiao on September 1, it…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. FINALLY, the well-attended FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 was finally over last September 10. Surprisingly, it was the underdog German five that made history by winning their first-ever FIBA World Cup championship after 18 tries. Like most of you guys, I never missed to…
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