HANDS-ON MOLDING OF FUTURE JOURNALISTS — This project, being planned through the collaborative efforts of the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (Pangasinan chapter) and Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia, should push through. It will greatly benefit aspiring journalists in Dagupan City and other areas in the fourth congressional…
DAGUPAN’S 21ST CENTURY MILLENNIALS – The young set, representing the today’s millennial set, whoop it up along the city’s main street during the Parada na Dekada during the Agew na Dgupan last June 20. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
WAR ON DRUGS ALAMINOS CITY—This city became the first city in Region 1 to be declared by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) on June 19 as drug-free. Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 1 Director Jeoffrey Tacio lauded the efforts of the city government as he added that “it…
UPDATE LINGAYEN—After 11 months, 1,548 persons (1,341 pushers and 207 users) have been arrested so far based on the Consolidated Accomplishment Report of Project Double Barrel prepared by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office for the period July 1, 2016 to date. P/Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, chief of the police community…
PLATINUM AWARDEES ALL — Dr. Aurora S. Reyna (Order of Merit for Exemplary in Culture and Arts; Retired RTC Judge Alicia Decano (Order of Merit for Exemplary in Judiciary Service), Gonzalo Duque (Order of Merit for Exemplary in Public Service), and GSIS chairman Francisco Duque III, (Public Administration) represented by their sons, receive…
THIS city’s outstanding sons and daughters who distinguished themselves in public service, business, humanities, the creative arts, communications or in the profession they practice were honored as Pinablin Dagupenõs during the Gala Night at CSI Stadia on June 19. The year’s awardees are: Dr. Eliza Fernandez Ramos (Medicine), Dr. Gregoria…
LAND DONATION FOR NEW CITY HALL THERE was no law violated when the brother of Mayor Belen T. Fernandez donated a 1.2-hectare land to the city of Dagupan and even if the new city hall will rise in the donated property. This was the opinion rendered by City Legal Officer Victoria Cabrera…
WHAT HAPPENED? THE controversial sale of MC Adore Hotel during the term of Mayor Benjamin S. Lim was resurrected during the recent public hearing of a draft ordinance seeking the transfer of the city hall to another site. Barangay Caranglaan Chairman Teresa Coquia said there would have been no contentious…
FORMER Sen. Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. capsulized his life since he lost his bid for the vice presidency in 2016 with the three words: Nagmahal. Nasaktan. Nag-protesta (He loved, he was hurt, he protested). This was how he described his life before some 4,000 graduates of the Pangasinan State University…
THE president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) urged the people “to refrain from patronizing, popularizing and supporting identified sources of “alternative facts” or “fake news”. In a pastoral exhortation dated June 21 titled “Consecrate them in the truth”, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, also called on the sources…
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