NOW that the local campaign has officially started, it’ time to get down to brass tacks. While we are holding the national and local elections simultaneously, the election that truly matters is the local elections. It is their results that will immediately impact on our communities’ and families’ lives. In…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. BELIEVE you me, God really works out worldly issues and concerns in His own time and in His own all-knowing ways. Take the overnight proliferation of illegal fish pens and oversized fish cages in the rivers of Dagupan City soon as Brian Lim became mayor….
By Al S. Mendoza WHO says the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is losing its clout, popularity? Think again, fellas. Just minutes after Wilfred Uytengsu announced Alaska’s departure from the PBA after the ongoing Governors’ Cup, five prospective buyers immediately showed up. “I didn’t expect to receive an avalanche of…
By Gonzalo Duque MAYBE Dagupan City Hall is already missing the presence of former City Administrator Vlad Mata, whom I consider a good administrator. Vlad, a former councilor and experienced in budget-making process, would have readily addressed the various procedural and substantial problems at city hall. He is definitely…
By Leonardo Micua THE campaign period for candidates running for the local elections on May 9 finally kicked off last March 25. Under the law, local candidates have 45 days (except on Holy Thursday and Good Friday and on the eve of the elections) to campaign and argue their…
Former Mayor Belen Fernandez briefs fisherfolk on the city ordinance. THE delay in the approval of the 2022 annual budget of Dagupan caught former Mayor Belen Fernandez’ attention and wondered how and why it could happen today when it never had to happen during her six-year administration from 2013 to…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo SOME time in January 2022, former Syrian intelligence officer “Anwar Raslan, 58, was found guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people” and the torture of at least 4,000 prisoners at the Al-Khatib detention centre in Damascus, also known as “Branch 251”, in 2011 and…
By Farah G. Decano FEMININE traits are considered weak, subservient and uncertain most of the time while masculine qualities are deemed strong, courageous and resolute. What are these usual manly traits reckoned to be manifestations of fearlessness? Courage in accordance with the stereotypical masculine standard is aggression, confrontation and…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “THERE’S always a first time in life,” as the maxim says. This is indisputable adage that may occur unexpectedly to anyone in our daily lives. Yes, even sports activities are not spared from this axiom. In fact, it happened during the ten-day 2022 Ronda…
CAPITOL NEWS With Avian Flu cases reported in Central Luzon, the Provincial Government of Pangasinan conducted the consultative meeting with poultry integrators and stakeholders to assure the safety of the poultry industry in the province on March 22. The consultative meeting addressed the concerns of local stakeholders on the Avian…
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