WHILE the country routinely went through the campaign and election of their leaders in their respective barangays, hidden away from the electorate were the worsening illegal and anomalous activities in the disbursement of hundreds of thousands of barangay funds. As expected, both the wannabes and the incumbents hardly raised any…

THEY deserve public servants who tirelessly devote their time to improve their lot. What they don’t deserve are elected public servants that continuously seek the nullification of an approved annual budget of the Dagupan City government that aims to deliver quality service from their government. They don’t deserve the 2022…

OVER the past 13 months, there were only two instances that indicated Governor Ramon Guico III was on top of problematic issues besetting specific sectors in Pangasinan. No, it was not about food sustainability. Not about level of agricultural production. Not about plight of farmers. Certainly not about the impact…

THE decision of Dagupan City Vice Mayor Bryan Kua and Councilors Michael Fernandez, Dennis Canto, Jeslito Seen, Marcelino Fernandez and Joshua Bugayong to file criminal cases against their colleagues in the majority bloc albeit long overdue, is a good precedent. Dagupeños actually wondered why the councilors in the minority allowed…

OVER the past week, Congress could have easily passed its version of the 2024 national budget without much ado until media reported Commission on Audit’s problems in seeking accountability for the hundreds of millions of confidential funds in the name of Vice President Sara Duterte in 2022. Fortunately, House Speaker…

FINALLY, Dagupan City residents can begin to look forward to the delivery of the many social and health programs that were effectively suspended by the seven majority members of the Sangguniang Panlungsod, they who deliberately did all to sabotage the delivery of the services clearly, out of their political selfish…

IT is not likely that babies born during the Generation Y (Millennials) from 1980 to 1994; Generation Z from 1995 to 2009 and Generation Alpha from 2010 to date, care to remember what happened on September 21,1972, or  51 years ago today –  the day when then President Ferdinand E. Marcos, declared…

AMID efforts of the Marcos Jr. administration to stabilize the supply of rice and eventually see a drop in the price of various milled rice in the face of the uncontrolled spiraling prices of the commodity, there is one fact already absent in most Pangasinenses’ minds – Pangasinan was once…

LAST week, DPWH and Dagupan City government engineers confirmed that the city’s rivers and tributaries are heavily silted and block the flow of water from upstream to the sea. This fact can easily be gleaned from the Quintos Bridge over the Pantal River. A counterflow from the other side of…

THE discovery of 154,000 bags of suspected smuggled rice in Bulacan last week is a sure indicator that the declared war with smugglers and hoarders of rice is far from over. In fact, it has not started notwithstanding the President’s brave words – Your days are numbered.” That successful raid…