
FIL-AM BROTHERS Jacob and Andrew Nordhagen, grandsons of Florence and Geri Fernandez of Sta. Barbara, achieved perfect scores in their ACT separately in Spokane County in Washington, USA. Two million students take the test nationwide and getting a perfect score has been rare, and for both to earn perfect scores in…
Opinions
Editorial
Reckless abandon
THE reported but still not fully accounted number of positive COVID-19 cases from the National Capital Region (NCR)+ admitted into many private hospitals and government-run hospitals in Pangasinan and in Dagupan City, is a human disaster waiting to happen for the provincial government. It's definitely another “Damn if you do,…
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Punchline
Mayor Lim’s missing P10-M vaccine purchases
By Ermin Garcia Jr. DAGUPAN Mayor Brian Lim already has nothing going for him except what the national government can download for the city, and I’m talking about the vaccines allocated to the city. Even the earlier press announcement that he was purchasing city’s own vaccines was nothing…
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General Admission
Random Thoughts
DILG failed in contact-tracing efforts
By Leonardo Micua “DON’T blame the DOH for (the) COVID spike. It’s the DILG. They fumbled their contact tracing efforts.” This was recently posted by Wilson Chua, CEO of the Dagupan-based Bitstop, Inc. in his social media account. He has been analyzing data about the COVID-19 situation in the country,…
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G Spot
Andromeda’s Vortex
“Akubid”
By Atty. Farah G. Decano WITH the recent news that one out of three Covid survivors eventually suffer from mental issues, “akubid,” I predict, will soon be part of Pangasinan’s rich vocabulary to refer to someone who is psychologically unstable. Remember the word, “atipus?” Atipus refers to someone…
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Sports Eye
2020 Tokyo Olympics should roll on
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games which was supposed to be held last July 24 to August 9 was unanimously postponed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) headed by its President Thomas Bach and Japan Prime Minister Abe Shinzo together with the President of the…
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Learnings in Life
What we have got wrong about beauty
Unknown Author Contributed by Ashok G. Vasandani Here's an article I read on Demic’s page on Facebook that I'd like to share, something that we can all learn from. I was once walking alone in the wilderness of the Himalayan mountains, when I came across a crowd of homeless…
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Feelings
Blood Smells
By Jing Villamil THEY moved on fast, these young ones. From sweet dates to wedded bliss, from pregnant bellies to squealing babies, who in turn, by their little selves, moved on even faster, from crawlers to toddlers to brawlers. And having moved so early on and so furiously fast, a…
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THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) is considering passing a resolution asking the national Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to allow the holding of basketball games and tournaments while strictly observing health and safety protocols. The resolution proposed by Fourth District Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario, chairman on…

THE 256 anti-illegal drug operations conducted by the Region 1 police from February 1 to April 6 resulted in the arrest of 260 drug personalities and the confiscation of 136.0879 grams of shabu. P/Brig.Gen. Emmanuel Peralta, Police Regional Office 1 (PRO1) director, said the region’s intensified conduct of Simultaneous Anti-…

CONCRETE ARTIFICIAL REEF PROJECT LAUNCHED IN AGNO. Another component activity of the Abig Pangasinan socio-recovery program, the Concrete Artificial Reef Project launched in Agno aims to provide livelihood opportunities to fisherfolks in the locality, support marine life protection and food protection. Left photo shows the deployment of 45 concrete artificial…