By Leonardo Micua IT’S been more than one month since the 22 provincial officials returned from their “official” trip to the United States from June 1 to 9, but not one has reported gains made for the province and people from that trip, if any. It is incumbent upon them…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I opened the veranda to see the sky and the mountains below it. It was still dark, and the tall trees covered a portion of the lights that dotted the mountains. They have grown so tall, the trees, allowing only a view of the sky….
By Farah G. Decano CITIZENS must be quick to commend traits that are worthy of emulation while vociferously denouncing conducts that are reckless, malicious, and inimical to common good. By constantly declaring their ideals and their displeasures, the populace is setting the standards and values with which the collective…
By Eva C. Visperas YOU don’t often see he governor during barangay fiestas. Maybe, for one, he’d easily burned out if he attended all 1,364 barangays in Pangasinan. It definitely takes a lot to be part of the barangay folks’ party. He, however, sometimes attends municipal or city fiestas,…
BOYS WANTING TO BECOME MEN – Grade school and high school boys are drawn to the two-day medical mission for their circumcision, organized by the Dagupan City government in cooperation with the UST Medical Missions, Inc. and CSI Group of Companies, Inc. service at West Central Elementary School 1 in Dagupan City last week. (Punchphoto…
MAYOR Belen Fernandez belied rumors being spread by her detractors that she’s running for Congress in the 2025 mid-term election. ” I’m running for reelection. in fact, I can’t wait till October to file my certificate of candidacy,” Fernandez said, briefly departing from her State of the City Address at CSI Stadia….
THE Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in Dagupan City will soon conduct voter registration drives in barangays in preparation for the 2025 midterm elections. In Dagupan City, Atty.Michael Sarmiento, the city election officer, said 90% of the targeted 133,000 registered voters have already been achieved and expects to surpass the target…
DATA at the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) show how breast cancer afflicts the most in Pangasinan than any other type of cancer. Dr. Lazarus Rafacon, a surgical oncologist at R1MC did not disclose the specific number of cancer patients in Pangasinan, but he emphasized in an interview over Aksyon…
LAST week, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines issued an official statement affirming that “it stands with the Filipino fishermen who are only exercising their right to a livelihood inside our own Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). And, the Integrated Bar of the Philippines also supports the legitimate stand of the…
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