By Leonardo Micua IF there is one upcoming project in Dagupan that should be given its due course, it is the flood mitigation project in the flood-prone intersection of A.B. Fernandez Avenue, Arellano Street and M.H. del Pilar Street. A project of the DPWH at the request of the…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo EVEN under the extreme heat of the summer sun, the trees were smiling. It is a smile made brighter by the red flowers of the fire trees and the yellow flowers of the narra trees that overwhelmed the green leaves, firmly holding on, with the…
By Farah G. Decano DAGUPAN residents nowadays are polarized, but not in the way the Liberal and the Nacionalista Dagupeños were so divided decades ago. As per information from older generations, the split among city residents based on party affiliations lasted only during elections and during appointments to public…
By Eva C. Visperas LET me share with you my harrowing experience chasing the De Lima-Dayan saga. Remember them? I’m sure you do. The duo, a former Justice secretary and her alleged driver-lover and bagman, were very controversial during the Duterte regime. She was an outspoken critic of former…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE talk of the town last week in sports was the 32nd Southeast Asia Games (SEAG) hosted by Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It concluded last Wednesday (May 17) with defending champion Vietnam convincingly retained its overall supremacy in the biennial meet, harvesting 136 gold medals,…
By Rex Catubig HE’S probably grown tired of the ocean after so many years as a US Navy sailor, so when our high school classmate Pablo Miranda retired, he chose to build a second house atop a forested hill in Rosario, La Union. Hiring a bulldozer and armed only with…
AFTER TERMINATING EMPLOYEES AS if passing a zero budget for job order employees and deleting funds for scholars were not enough, the 7-man majority at the Sangguniang Panlungsod continues to block the resolution amending the city’s Human Resources Management, Promotion and Selection Board (HRMPSB) adopted in September 28, 2022. The…
HIGH VALUE TARGETS BUSTED!– Operatives of PDEA and Pangasinan PNP process the amount of shabu seized from the possession of Alex Basman and Omar Macapundag , both identified as high value targets in the campaign vs. illegal drugs. Both were arrested in a buy-bust operation and known to be carrying illegal…
CITY A DRUG TRANSSHIPMENT POINT? TWO high value targets for illegal drugs were arrested in a buy-bust operation conducted by joint elements of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, Pangasinan Police Provincial Office, La Union Police Office, Police Intelligence Unit and the Dagupan Police on May 14 in Barangay Caranglaan, Dagupan…
A 74-year-old doctor died inside her house in Barangay Poblacion West in Calasiao town on Tuesday morning, May 17, when it caught fire. The victim was identified as Dr. Violeta Garcia, a stroke patient, bedridden, and unable to move on her own. Fire Senior Inspector Gener Ramos, Fire Marshal of…
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