PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST WINNER – The PUNCH’S chief photojournalist Willie Lomibao is shown with PAGCOR officials after receiving his award for his entry to the PAGCOR Photography Contest 2023. ( L-R ) Atty. Juanito Sañora Jr PAGCOR president/COO, Alejandro Tengco, PAGCOR chairman /CEO, and Gilbert Remulla PAGCOR Director. Lomibao’s entry was one of 20 finalists…
ALARMING, much more disturbing to the sensibilities. This was how two provincial board members expressed alarm over their perception that there is a high rate of rapes cases in Pangasinan but the Police Provincial Police assured the board members that this is not the case. Sixth District Board Member Noel…
Rape cases on the decline, say
FOUR individuals reported to the Calasiao Police Station on September 5, 2023, against the wife of the town mayor after they invested a huge sum of money for a business scheme but she allegedly went into hiding after that. The complainants are Jovert Francisco Choi, 40, Toyota sales agent, resident…
4 persons file complaint vs Calasiao mayor’s wife for alleged investment scam
WATCH out, netizens! Do not post or upload anything on Facebook, X, YouTube or Tiktok that can destroy another individual’s reputation or image because if you do, the affected subject of the ‘marites’ can file a criminal case for online libel against the uploader. This is the warning reiterated by…
Online ‘Marites’ among top 3 cybercrimes
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency Regional Office 1 conducted a Community-Based Anti-illegal Drug Advocacy (CBAIDA) campaign for members of the Anti-illegal Drug Abuse Councils of Agno town last Wednesday in Barangay Macaboboni. The day-long activity was steered by the Preventive Education Community Involvement team under the supervision of PDEA Regional Director Joel Plaza. …
PDEA holds anti-drug advocacy forum
THE Dagupan Swim Team bagged two gold, one silver and two bronze medals in the 3rd Sarawak Short Course Sprint 2023 swimming tournament held in Kuching, Malaysia last September 8 to 10, sanctioned by Power Aquatics Swimming Club (PASC) . Some 645 swimmers from 26 different clubs from the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia saw action in the two-day international…
Dagupan Swim Team captures 2 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze in Malaysia
By Leonardo Micua IT may bode well for Dagupan that the League of Cities of the Philippines took cognizance of the fact that Dagupan City is still without an annual budget, the only one in the entire archipelago operating on a measly reenacted budget, a budget never sufficient to serve…
Is Mayor Belen ready to file cases?
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo “HE appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The…
Artistic Interpretations
By Farah G. Decano DURING the recently held seminar on human rights education held on September 12 and 13 in Iloilo City under the auspices of the Human Rights Institute (HRI), the latter proved to the participants that it does practice what it preaches. The HRI is the education…
Human rights education
By Eva C. Visperas THE municipal hall of Calasiao suddenly became alive again. Someone so familiar, whose family they have learned to love and adore, arrived. The day Patrick Caramat came to the Comelec office to file his COC as barangay captain of Nalsian, Calasiao on September 1, it…