MODERN science and technology still cannot predict where and when earthquakes will happen and how strong. The only thing that can be predicted is how the emergency response should be. So far, Northern Luzon has been spared from the strong tremors that hit Mindanao and the Visayas of late, and…

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…

IT has been an uphill battle for the Belen Fernandez administration since she assumed her post, just to plan how to deliver on its Unliserbisyo promise to Dagupeños. And there is nothing to indicate that the situation will normalize soon and get her back on track. Not with the seven…

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…

THERE is no doubt in anyone’s mind that illegal drug trading in Pangasinan continues to thrive. News reports of arrests of shabu and marijuana street dealers in the province by PDEA local police operatives persist and are welcome because it says a lot about the active campaign being pursued by…

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…

THERE was a time that when a country, its constitution and government refer to press freedom, it talks specifically about right of men and women in journalism practice who are committed to be the eyes and ears of the public, “to serve the governed, not the governors without fear of…

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…

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…

THE Dagupan City government is finally back on its feet, but not how it wanted. Having to work with a reenacted 2022 budget is the only alternative left for the Belen Fernandez administration from where it is expected to pick up the pieces from the chaos created by the political…