POST MBTF’S DEFENSE THE Committee on Finance, Budget and Appropriations of the Sangguniang Panlungsod is set to wind up its committee hearings on the 2024 annul budget of Dagupan on March 5 after the Local Finance Committee of the city and the officer-in-charge of the Persons with Disability Affairs Office…
MULTI-awarded poet Santiago ‘Sonny’ Villafania, 53, died 1 a.m. on Monday, February 26, 2024. Villafania’s daughter, Wenna Louise, confirmed his death in her post on his Facebook account: “Dear friends and family, it’s in heavy heart that we write this post. My father, Santiago B. Villafania passed away at 1am…
Housewives in the neighborhood, who found the shed skin of a suspected python, hold up their discovery. (Photograb on Facebook) RESIDENTS of Sitio Nibaliw in Barangay Bued, Calasiao town, are alarmed and fear the presence of a possibly monstrous snake in their neighborhood after they found its shed skin Wednesday…
FLOOD MITIGATION PROJECTS THUS was the appeal Mayor Belen Fernandez she left with members of the majority of the Sangguniang Panlungsod who man the committee on finance when the elevation of roads during their committee hearing on the 2024 annual budget of Dagupan last February 27 at the conference room…
ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN — A concrete barrier installed along the De Venecia Diversion Road is deliberately misaligned by a band of vandals along the shoulder without thought of the serious risks posed to speeding motorcycles and tricycles. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Pangasinan Provincial Police apprehended 84 lawbreakers during an anti-criminality law enforcement operation in the province from February 18 to 24. P/Col. Jeff Fanged, police provincial director, reported that 20 were suspected drug dealers, from whom 26.243 kilos of shabu and 1.407 grams of marijuana, with total street value of P178,600 were seized….
By Gonzalo Duque I’VE been on a semi-retirement mode for some time which is why I suspended my favorite pastime, column writing. Truth is, my editor, Ermin, had been prodding me to resume my column to put my mind in shape but I could not find the right motivation…
By Leonardo Micua IN last week’s proceedings of the committee hearing on the 2024 annual budget attended by Mayor Belen Fernandez, Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia, the chairman on the finance, budget and appropriations committee, sought clarification about the tie-up between Dagupan and Holcim Philippines, and why she has not sought…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo AMONG the commissioners of the Pangasinan Historical and Cultural Commission (PHCC), Arabela “Bel” Arcinue, Santiago “Sonny” Villafania and myself share a most curious discussion: the Anunnaki. In the earliest Sumerian writings about the Anunnaki, which come from the Post-Akkadian period, the Anunnaki are gods born…
By Farah G. Decano ACCORDING to a former Consul assigned in San Francisco, there are two incidents that made the Filipino gain world respect in recent history – the 1986 people power and the 2016 legal triumph of the Philippines against China. In both glorious events, the mother and…
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