By Leonardo Micua ON our way home to Bonuan Thursday afternoon, we passed by the holding garage of the Dagupan Bus on Arellano Street to see it finally opened, which could mean it might soon join the fleet of provincial buses now plying from Dagupan and Pangasinan to Cubao…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo FOUND an article entitled, “US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev” written by Ian Traynor of the Guardian dated Fri 26 Nov 2004. It summarizes thus: “But while the gains of the orange-bedecked “chestnut revolution” are Ukraine’s, the campaign is an American creation, a sophisticated…
By Farah G. Decano PRESIDENTIAL contender Leni Robredo’s recent successive mega-rallies are now making the surveys of popular research centers look unbelievable. How can a candidate, who consistently gets less than 30 percent of the respondents compared to her closest rival who garners more than 50 percent, command such…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I TRAVELED to Tarlac City last Wednesday (March 16) with a friend purposely to talk with some of our Pangasinan cyclists participating in the ten-day 2022 Ronda Pilipinas bikefest. I wanted to know how they’re doing after six days of intense pedal-pushing anent. Yes,…
By Rex Catubig TWO years close to the date, the world was caught unawares and put in shackles by a virulent virus that is a variant of corona. Here in Dagupan where I had retired a little over a year earlier, government imposed health protocol had me confined at…
DepEd RESEARCH THE Department of Education Ilocos (DepEd Region 1) has determined that out of 1,364 barangays in Pangasinan, 203 are still without schools and 1,048 barangays have elementary but without high schools. These were among the findings of the research on “School-less Barangays” recently conducted by the DepEd Region…
JAB AT THE MARKET PLACE—A Department of Health personnel administers the COVID-19 vaccine to a fish porter at the Magsaysay Fish Market in Dagupan on March 11 bringing the vaccination in the worksite of people who cannot leave their work in order to get the jab. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
WITH just 20 remaining active cases as of March 17 and with not a single death registered for the past week from March 11, the provincial government is optimistic that COVID-19 will just be an endemic in Pangasinan soon. Still under Alert Level 1 till March 31, the data from…
ONLY 9 DAYS LEFT TO OK 2022 BUDGET AN amended and itemized version of the Indicative Annual Procurement Plan (IAPP) of Dagupan City for 2022 was submitted to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) by the executive department on March 9 whose deadline was December 31, 2021. City Secretary Ryan Ravanzo reported…
NEXT CHALLENGE: BOOSTER SHOTS CHANCES of attaining full normalcy amid the COVID-19 pandemic sooner are brighter than ever. This was the sentiment conveyed by Rhodyn Oro, vice chairman of the provincial IATF-ED, to the Sangguniang Panlalawigan during its Question Hour. While he expressed optimism, Oro said in the event a…
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