Dagupan’s Thailand connection set By Gonzalo Duque YOU all saw it on TV. Pati fishing expedition ni Trillanes ay pinayagan to the obvious discomfort of his own son vice mayor Paulo and son in law, Atty. Mans Carpio. Pres. Duterte over the week end successfully demonstrated political will and…
Why we finished 6th overall in SEA Games By Al S. Mendoza WHO is chiefly to blame for our worst finish in the just-ended SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur? Our sports officials, who else? Most of them are nothing but a bunch of NPAs for the longest time. Of…
The Subversive Power of Poetry By Virginia J. Pasalo “QUISIERON enterrarnos, pero se les olvido que somos semillas.” is a battlecry of the Zapatistas, a leftist group in Mexico. It means, “They tried to bury us, they forgot we were seeds.” This “Mexican proverb” is actually a paraphrase of…
Guam invites Pangasinan, Dagupan youth cagers By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. MY first child Jazy just came back from his one month visit to Guam bringing with him an official invitation letter addressed to our province chief executive Amado I. Espino, lll and Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez…
OUR HELPLESSNESS. The Philippines need not be over-confident or complacent over the uneasy development in the Korean Peninsula, which was exacerbated the last few days by North Korea’s test of its first hydrogen bomb, a weapon of mass destruction said to be more lethal than nuclear bomb. This was our original reaction to Facebook post of…
THREE MORE EXPECTED THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) finally declared the town of San Nicolas as the 6th drug-free town in Pangasinan last Thursday, September 7. PDEA Regional Director Tacio awards the drug-free certification to San Nicolas Mayor Saldivar and Vice Mayor Joel Luansin during the signing and declaration…
STRICT COMPLIANCE REQUIRED IF the validation of declarations of towns as drug-free by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is slow, it is because local governments fail to either submit documentary requirements or resolve pending issues. This was pointed out by PDEA Provincial Officer Dexter Asayco in an exclusive interview…
LINGAYEN – Various agencies and offices in Pangasinan expressed support for the formation of the National Tokhang Advocacy Coalition (NTAC), a sub-component of the National Coalition of Sectoral Force Multipliers and Advocacy Support Groups, to help sustain peace and order efforts of the government, particularly the war against drugs, for…
THE Provincial Public Safety Company of PNP based in Tayug remains on full alert status after validating an information on the presence of armed men in Camp 2 and 3 near Sitio Cabalitian in the mountainous areas of Barangay Malico and Sta. Maria East in San Nicolas. P/ Superintendent Virgilio…
WATCH BUT DON’T TOUCH — A group of whiskered tern (Chlidonias hybrida) meet the rising sun at Sunrise Island, the easternmost island (rock formation) at the Hundred Islands National Park. Several species of birds can be found in the Park. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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