By Leonardo Micua “THIS AREA IS NOT FOR SALE”. Thus read streamers put up by CENRO Central Pangasinan on some of the fences erected by still unidentified individuals in the foreshore lands of Bonuan, starting from Gueset to Boquig and to Binloc. It is a notice to the public…
By Farah G. Decano THE level of toxicity that any individual can tolerate, whether physical or psychological, is limited. Beyond a certain threshold, the poison will either cause death or insanity. The same is probably true for the Dagupan populace which is presently bombarded with, and drowned in, constant…
TOXiCITY
By Eva C. Visperas THIS is it. It’s gonna happen, really. Something exciting is unfolding in Pangasinan. I thought last Monday, July 10, was going to be just an ordinary regular session of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) that a group of 10 mediamen usually cover. We didn’t realize it…
Dream come true for Guv Monmon
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. SOME of my cycling contemporaries, including the young and current competitors of the two-wheeled event, politicians and cycling buffs, asked me (maybe to test or tease me) what our province’s credentials are in the field of cycling as competitive sport. They wondered what it…
Pangasinan’s credentials in cycling
By Rex Catubig HE was the antithesis of a city official during his term as Mayor. He was down to earth, loud and foul-mouthed– way before a later Mayor in the south claimed the patent for crassness and rudeness. But the redneck and hillbilly pretensions were all shock tactics…
The promise
THE Pangasinan Provincial Cyber Response Team (PPCRT) has identified online scams as the leading form of cybercrime-related incidents in Region I. Six months after the first-ever Cyber Response Team in the region was established in Dagupan City, it has already recorded 80 confirmed cybercrime victims in the region, where 40-percent…
Most cybercrime victims reported in Pangasinan
SENIORS’ GRADUATION DAY – Graduating senior students wait for the start of the 54th Commencement Exercises of Bonuan Boquig National High School at the Dagupan City People’s Astrodome. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
SENIORS’ GRADUATION DAY
IN its rich 107-year history, the Benguet State University (BengSU) has produced its first-ever summa cum laude in Vjnhyl Zam Pondivida, a 22-year-old resident of Pozorrubio town. In an interview with Pondivida, she said she still feels mixed emotions graduating with the highest distinction. Summa Cum Laude is the highest…
Citizen journalist, is first-ever BengSU’s ‘summa cum laude’
UNLISERBISYO MAYOR Belen Fernandez recently led the Dagupan City government in launching the Urban Community Garden program in the Barangays Bonuan Boquig, Bonuan Gueset, Lasip Grande, Malued and Mamalingling in support of the food security initiatives of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The program was launched initially in the five barangays…