By Rex Catubig IT’S where everything merges and converges: the Grand Central of street food, produce, and a motley assortment of goods and merchandise. And at five o’clock in the afternoon, Galvan street flanked by the old MacAdore and Malimgas market, becomes a veritable market goers’ convention hub —…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. WHO says there are no illegal fish pens in Dagupan City? The elected city officials. They know there is an elephant in the room but no one seems to see it. I refer to the thousands of illegal fish pens already operating in and around…
By Leonardo Micua FROM where I sit, I can almost feel the angst of rice retailers over Executive Order No. 39 issued by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., that mandated the price ceiling of regular-milled rice at P41 per kilogram, and well-milled rice at P45 per kilogram. Believing that the…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo SISTER Mary John Mananzan, a Missionary Benedictine activist nun from Bayambang, Pangasinan, told me that on one of her trips to Tagaytay, she followed a bluebird and it stopped at a property in Mendez, Cavite. It was in this property where the Women and Ecology…
By Farah G. Decano THE Philippines will be celebrating the Law Week this September so I thought of asking a young lawyer, who recently passed the bar, to write about her heartaches in and hopes for the legal profession. Atty. Iyay Vargas-Malicdem is a magna cum laude graduate of…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE 38,115-strong throng that trooped to the Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan validated our love for the sport basketball. As ardent aficionados of this sport, I never missed to watch the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 games live on TV being hosted by the…
By Rex Catubig THEY are the calamity staple. Once referred to as “relief”, they have since mutated into the colloquial “ayuda” as food aid is called—a package consisting of a bag of rice, canned goods, noodles, coffee sachets, and the like—depending on the local government’s resources and “diskarte” or…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. IF you are wondering why the activities of the seven notorious epaLiFes who claim to be dedicated public servants (Councilors Red Erfe-Mejia, Celia Lim, Dada Reyna-Macalanda, Alfie Fernandez, Alvin Coquia, Irene Lim-Acosta and Marilou Fernandez) continue to hug The PUNCH headlines, here’s why – It…
By Leonardo Micua AFTER four series of public hearings, the seven-man majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan, came out with a one-page resolution (No. R-6336) “earnestly requesting Her Honor Mayor Belen Fernandez to cause a stoppage of the implementation of the road elevation and construction of a drainage…
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