Age 60, passed away peacefully on Monday, December 11, 2023. She was born on July 29, 1963 in Manaoag, Pangasinan. Badette was married to Diosdado Crisostomo. She was a mother to three beautiful children – Lara Bernadine, Leonard Gil, and Danielle Angela Bernadette, a loving and caring grandmother to Bernice…

THE Guico administration was hardly fazed or showed concern that Pangasinan missed out on the Seal of Local Government Governance (SGLG) this year for the first time since the award was introduced in 2015 and made into law in 2019 by Congress. Vice Governor Mark Lambino naturally downplayed the impact…
Seal of Good Local Government Governance for Pangasinan?
By Ermin Garcia Jr. IS it possible at all that Dagupan Councilors Red Erfe-Mejia, Alfie Fernandez, Celia Chua-Lim, Irene Lim-Acosta, Librada Macalanda, Alvin Coquia and Marilou Fernandez were all absent when the basic tenets of Logic 101 and English 101 were taught in the colleges and universities they attended?…
Comedy at the Dagupan SP

IN compliance with the directive of Mayor Belen Fernandez, Arellano Street was temporarily reopened by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) for two-way traffic since 6:00 a.m. on December 15 and will remain as such until January 6 next year. This was a day ahead of the December 16 temporarily…
Arellano Street temporarily reopened for two-way traffic.
KAP MORILLO SLAY INTERIOR Local Government Secretary Benjamin Abalos Jr. pledged P500,000 as reward money to any person who can provide valuable information that could lead to the identification and arrest of the perpetrators, including the mastermind, in the ambush-slaying of Poblacion Barangay Chairperson Melinda “Tonet” Morillo of Mangaldan on…
Sec. Abalos pledges P500K reward for informants
THE Privately-Hosted Evacuation Center (PHEC), one of the best practices of the Dagupan City government in recent years, has been benchmarked by other cities in the Philippines. Speaking to newsmen last week, Mayor Belen Fernandez revealed the PHEC was adopted as model by members of the League of Cities of…
Dagupan’s PHEC copied by other cities in case of tsunami
VICE GOV. Mark Ronald Lambino described the year 2023 as a “jam-packed period” filled with extensive work, actions, results, and outputs for Pangasinan. Lambino, the presiding officer of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), gave this assessment after the provincial board’s final in-person session for the current year on December 11. He…
VG Lambino: 2023 jam-packed period for Pangasinan

DISNEY CHRISTMAS IN TAYUG — Tayug residents and visitors troop to the town plaza nightly to witness the experience of the Disneyland-inspired features and to take in the glow of the bright Christmas lights that adorn the Disney Castle and Christmas trees. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
DISNEY CHRISTMAS IN TAYUG
THE regional office of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) again warned the public of a criminal syndicate purporting to be with DPWH and invoking names of officials of Pangasinan Second Engineering District and of the Second Highway District Engineer of Pangasinan in soliciting contributions and donations from…
DPWH: No authorized solicitation of cash or donation from contractors
By Leonardo Micua WE were appalled at the audacity by which some individuals misrepresent high officials of the government and hoodwink their victims for easy money, using only their constant companions —their smartphones. One such person introduced himself in a conversation with local government officials as the secretary of the…