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Crop insurance to offset El Niño

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

ONLY the Department of Agriculture’s National Irrigation Administration has so far provided the most practical antidote to the worst El Niño phenomenon expected to hit the country next month to last until the first quarter of 2024. NIA distributed solar-powered irrigation pumps to farmers’ cooperatives in Pangasinan. It is practical…

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Crop insurance to offset El Niño

Only 400 barangay chiefs in drug trade?

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

AS of last Friday, newly appointed Chief PNP Benjamin Acorda Jr. reported there are 400 barangay chairmen suspected to be engaged in or protecting illegal drug trade in their communities. Going by that number out of 42,029 barangays in the country, one easily surmises that more than a thousand town/police…

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Only 400 barangay chiefs in drug trade?

WANTED: Provincial Task Force for El Niño

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

OVER the past weeks, PAGASA, the Department of Health (DOH) and Department of Agriculture (DA) have been issuing warnings about the worst scenario that can be expected from the impact of El Niño phenomenon already given the adverse effects of climate change. The DOH has warned of diseases related to…

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WANTED: Provincial Task Force for El Niño

Full accountability, transparency in P6.8-billlion Land Bank loan

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

THAT Pangasinan is seeing an unprecedented long list of planned projects over the next two years is worthy of note, however, the mind-boggling plan that accompanied it that was already recently realized is with the approval of the provincial government’s application for a P6.8 billion credit line with the Land…

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Full accountability, transparency in P6.8-billlion Land Bank loan

It’s over but the filing

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

IN early July 2022, seven Dagupan City councilors who comprise the new majority, marched inside the Sangguniang Panlungsod hall, their heads high, unabashedly paraded themselves as the bright, well-informed, competent members of the LiFe political team.  They even made certain that they were properly identified and seen wearing their blue…

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It’s over but the filing

Understanding Easter through colored eggs

By | Editorial, Punch Gallery

TODAY’S Catholic laity are of the belief that celebrating Christmas, the birth of Jesus Christ, is the most significant religious observance.  We have 15-45 days season of celebration marked by colorful lights, gift-giving topped off by unrivalled commercialism in all malls, restaurants and stores immortalized by the image of a…

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Understanding Easter through colored eggs