YOUNG DRAGON DANCERS – Young girls hold up the Dancing Dragon as they weave though Dagupan’s business center during the Lunar Year parade. Traditionally, young men do the chore. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
FARMERS WORRY OVER ARRIVAL OF IMPORTED STOCK THE price of onions in Pangasinan slowly started dropping since the harvest season begun. A kilo of red onions, locally known as the ‘Bombay’ and the ‘Super Pinoy’ variants, was already being sold at P220 in Dagupan City markets last week, as opposed…
FIRST it was the price of rice, then sugar, then households in Pangasinan woke up last week to find prices of eggs in their local markets higher by P2 reportedly because of low supply. A tray now costs an average of P225 to P250, as supplies while small eggs were…
By Leonardo Micua INQUIRER.net reported on Friday (before our deadline) that the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee chaired by Senator Francis Tolentino has recommended the filing of criminal charges against at least eight former and current officials of the Department of Education and of the Procurement Service of the Department of Budget…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo UNLIKE in jazz and rhythm and blues, where blue notes are used in spirituals, chants and rhymed narrative ballads, the blue note in poetry is melancholic, unrhymed and unsung. A silent, heart-rending wail living in between the verses, unable to shed tears. The knowing…
By Farah G. Decano DAGUPAN City’s advancement seems to be blocked by a Goliath of an opposition. With seven members solidly identified with the opposition and only five with the administration, it would seem impossible for any proposed budget to be enacted, right? Wrong. It is possible. The enactment…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “THERE’S always first time in life,” one of the world’s popular cliché, that happens to me time and again. Last January 15 during the “First. Jesus Rivera Garcia, Sr. Lingayen Gulf Landing Memorial Race” an amateur bikefest, I sponsored for my first bikefest in…
NEWLY elected Calasiao Mayor Mamilyn ‘Maya’ Caramat, was laid to rest on Wednesday, January 18 at the town’s Garden of Eden Memorial Park after a necrological mass at the St. Peter and Paul Parish Church officiated by Archbishop Socrates Villegas. Leading the funeral cortege that moved solemnly were members of…
THIRTY tribe members from the Indigenous Peoples (IP) in Malico, San Nicolas town have been registered by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) during a special satellite voter registration. Gina Aquino, COMELEC San Nicolas election officer, said the regionwide simultaneous special satellite registration launched on January 14 targeted to the vulnerable…
THE first Pangasinan Cold Room, a joint venture of the UNICEF and Department of Health, in the region was inaugurated on January 18, at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) in San Carlos City. The event was led by Dr. Carla Orozco, immunization specialist representing the UNICEF, Dr. Veronica Guadiz of…
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