WITH assets totaling P18.36 billion, Pangasinan ranked as the 14th richest among 82 provinces in the country in 2023, based on the Commission on Audit’s Annual Financial Report on Local Government Units for last year. The province also placed 7th in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) share, contributing 1.8%…
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas highlighted Catholic teachings in a Pastoral Letter on December 16 in view of numerous political controversies hounding the country amid the Christmas celebration. “It is almost Christmas and we start our Simbang Gabi with mixed feelings of expectant joy and hope but with trouble and distress,”…
Fr. Soc puts Catholic teachings in context in politics
A BIG BOON TO DAGUPAN ALMOST 90 years after the Franklin Bridge was washed out by a big flood in 1935, a new bridge will soon cross the Calmay River in Dagupan City. Groundbreaking rites for the new Calmay Bridge were held in the morning of December 20 in Barangay Calmay, led by Pangasinan Fourth District Rep. Christopher…
New P1.8-B bridge to cross Calmay River after 90 years
By Gonzalo Duque THE maiden edition of our podcast “The Punching Duo” with Ermin Garcia Jr. as my co-host kicked off without much fanfare last week. From the reactions of those who watched our test broadcast, it was a stunning success. I was informed that more than 1,500 watched…
The power of social media
By Leonardo Micua MEMBERS of the new minority in the Dagupan city council again headed to the exit door in their last regular session for the year, again opting not to participate in healthy parliamentary debates with their counterparts in the new majority. This has become their routine since November…
Dereliction of duty by opposition councilors
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo WHEN I reflect about what happened in the last five years to my siblings and their families, I am surprised how they could have surmounted so many difficulties seemingly without solutions in sight, then. But they did, so did I. Amazing how the human spirit,…
Strangers
By Farah G. Decano ATTY. Glenn Bauzon entered the Dean’s office passing by the College of Law Secretary’s desk and the Faculty Lounge where gifts were being wrapped. He heard the yuletide songs of Andrea Bocelli being played audibly in my work area when he blurted, “I already feel…
The elusive Christmas spirit
By Eva C. Visperas THE public scoping for two proposed projects, one for the dredging of Limahong River Channel and Delta and the dredging of Agno River Channel and Delta located in the municipalities of Lingayen and Labrador, came under intense scrutiny during a public hearing on December 17…
Transparency, accountability demanded in river dredging projects
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By Rex Catubig SOME 2,000 years ago, an unlikely untimely birth made the biblical headlines, and subsequently became the matrix of Christianity. We are familiar with the circumstances of Joseph and Mary’s trek to Bethlehem from their home in Nazareth to comply with an edict for villagers to return…
Reinventing Christmas in Dagupan
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! DECEMBER 25 – (Dagupan City) Jhess de Guzman, Christian M. Gonzales DECEMBER 26 – (Calasiao) Katherine De Vera; (Mangaldan) Almira Dela Vega DECEMBER 29 – (Dagupan City) Mary Anne de Vera ; (Wedding Anniversary) John & Alice Barbiran Happy Birthday! SUSAN JIMENEZ (December 24 – DAGUPAN CITY) Happy…