ONCE A BRIGHTLY COLORED BRIDGE – The once colorful Pantal Bridge on De Venecia Highway already viewed as a landmark in Dagupan City at night is already a dark structure whose outline can only be seen by oncoming headlights of vehicles. It has since been abandoned by the past city administration and city residents…
FROM P90K TO P30K ALLOCATION THE new majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan is railing against the directive of Mayor Belen Fernandez that each city councilor will be entitled to only three job order (JO) or emergency employees until the end of their term. Their protest manifested in a…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan urged all local governments in Pangasinan to prepare and provide assistance to all schools, public and private, in their respective jurisdictions when face to face classes open on August 22 leading to its full implementation on November 2, 2022. The resolution, authored by Sixth District Board Member…
NO TRANSPARENCY IN PROJECTS URBIZTONDO mayor Modesto Operania bewailed the lack of transparency in the implementation of projects in the town by former mayor Martin Raul Sison II resulting in doubts about their legitimacy and propriety. Operania, in an interview, cited the town’s People’s Park which did not inform the…
By Leonardo Micua DURING the third regular session of the Sangguniang Panglunsod of Dagupan (there was no quorum after the inaugural session), Councilor Jigs Seen broke the ice by delivering a privilege speech directed at the heart of the new majority when he slammed the new Internal Rules and Procedures (IRP…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo LAST night, my sister noticed that there were piles of construction materials dumped on the adjacent lot we had maintained cleaning for several months now. The ampalaya (bitter gourd) was buried under the rubbles, and its leaves wilted from the weight carelessly dumped at its…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNDOUBTEDLY, our country’s number one favorite sport then and now is basketball. But sad to say that two of our latest and prestigious international stints by our Philippines national basketball team called “Gilas Pilipinas” unexpectedly suffered humiliating defeats. The first was in the latest biennial…
By Rex Catubig I’M haunted by memories of catastrophes. Yet I was never in any of them. As a young boy, I was raised on stories around the massive brick columns that lay on the riverbank of Calmay. The overriding theme was the Great Flood of 1935, way before…
DANGEROUS PLAYGROUND – Children play by the Pantal River practically covered by water lilies behind the Pantal Barangay Hall unsupervised, unaware of a fatal accident waiting to happen. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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