HERE we go again. Pangasinan’s political activities possibly revolving around the Commission on Elections’ say-so, scare tactics and little else, again. Over the years, Comelec always warned and threatened candidates and voters about vote-buying, illegal postering and promotion activities, etc. as criminal and prohibited acts under the Omnibus Election code…

THE race for the country’s top national posts is on! Between choosing from the 10 names for president, 9 for vice president and 64 for senators, and at the receiving end of the barrage of PR and propaganda in mainstream media and the disinformation and fake news being dished out…

THE official campaign period for the 2022 elections starts this week.  And to see it take off is fraught with fears not only of renewed violence between political camps in the province, in districts and towns and cities but of widespread violation of Covid health protocols by the candidates abetted…

WITH technology, there has been a growing public interest in national media issue-based  interviews that more local communities are beginning when local forums engaging  candidates for local posts can be organized as well. Over the years, local election officials and PNP stations organized symbolic covenant signing for peace among candidates,…

RAPE is a very serious crime. It’s so serious that journalism ethics dictate a rule on how media can report the crime. What ethics did not say is rape cases should not be reported. Charged of the crime before the Ombudsman by an identified victim is Presidential Adviser Sec. Raul…

THE surge in COVID-19 cases in the province could have been worse for the populace if less people in our communities had opted to be vaccinated. The fact that we have  more vaccinated persons today means the surge in cases today is more manageable, far better than when we only…

THE preemptive measures adopted by the provincial government to address the not totally surprising spike in number of new Covid cases in the province is indicative of an assurance that the province is in good hands. While it could have conveniently recommended the declaration of a shift in the province’s…

GIVEN what the weeks and months ahead of us tend to promise, we can only breathe a deep sigh of relief today knowing we find ourselves spared of onslaught of a pandemic.  There was simply no stopping a runaway train like a third surge of COVID-19 that is to wreak…

SHOULD the celebration of the Christmas take us away from the sufferings of our fellowmen in the southern islands amid new fears of a new outbreak and surge in the Covid pandemic? Not a few even wondered how the country can move on from this New Normal Christmas with all…

THE Espino administration has achieved for Pangasinan what the usual pessimists in our midst initially thought were difficult to accomplish in managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past two years, both our government and our people fought hard and well to survive the onslaught of the corona virus, a situation…