DAGUPAN DRAINS — The Dagupan City government has started declogging drainage systems on October 3, 2025 following the recent series of typhoons. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
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AMONG THE 333 TREES ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK — Workers cut down one of the 333 trees along the Baywalk Binmaley that are up for removal to supposedly improve the access road leading to tourism destinations at the Lingayen Baywalk. The cutting of trees was approved by the Department of…
AMONG THE 333 TREES ON THE CHOPPING BLOCK
NEGOSYO EXPO 2025 — Students, mostly taking business management-related courses, and entrepreneurs flock to the two-day Negosyo Expo 2025 that opened on September 30 at the CSI Stadia in Dagupan City. Mayor Belen Fernandez (inset) visits one of the exhibit booths of the participating businesses. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
NEGOSYO EXPO 2025
SOLIDARITY WITH BREAST CANCER AWARENESS — The provincial capitol building in Lingayen is illuminated pink on October 1, 2025 as part of the simultaneous nationwide ‘pink lighting activity’ in observance of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
SOLIDARITY WITH BREAST CANCER AWARENESS
UNLISERBISYO MORE job opportunities will soon open for Dagupeños with the approval of a proposed three-storey apartment in Barangay Pogo Chico and a one-storey commercial building in Barangay Mayombo. At the same time, PAMANA Water Corporation presented its plan to construct a pumphouse that will address the water supply needs…
PROGRESSIVE CITY, MORE JOBS FOR DAGUPEÑOS!
THE separate investigations by the House of Representatives and the Senate into ghost and substandard flood control projects — now expanded by the Independent Commission on Infrastructure to cover all projects built from 2016 to 2025 — have stalled some infrastructure projects under the Department of Public Works and Highways…
The Calmay Bridge tragedy
By Rex Catubig Note: Please allow me to indulge in some rumination to start my birthday month and await my upcoming birthday week. I am inspired by the AI photos created by my friends, Adams Ryan and Archimedes Fronda. Struck by the blurry image of hanging laundry in the…
Clothesline conversation
BRAVING THE FLOOD — Vehicles and even pedestrians brave the familiar flood in Dagupan City on September 25, 2025 as two typhoons and the southwest monsoon brought rains during the week. (PUNCHphoto by Willie Lomibao)
BRAVING THE FLOOD
TENS of thousands of Filipinos poured into the streets on September 21, from Metro Manila to key cities nationwide, to express outrage over what has become an open secret — large-scale corruption in government, particularly in flood control projects that were either “ghosts” or substandard. The demonstrators, a mix of…
Nothing less than true justice
RICE @P20/kg — People avail of the P20 per kilo rice sold at the Kadiwa na Kapitolyo held at the Capitol Complex in Lingayen on September 25, 2025. Each consumer can buy a maximum of 10 kilos. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
