Time to be merry, mindful and careful  ‘TIS time to be merry, indeed.  Thousands of families are reuniting and bonding in our communities with their countless visitors and friends during the holiday season.   The occasion calls for carefree and exciting environment. It already started with seeming endless shopping time for…

Pangasinan can win bigger and more LAST week, our Punchline suggested the staging of PANGASINAN GAMES by the provincial government if it is its vision to be the powerhouse of athletes, players and sportsmen and sportswomen in the country. The medal haul of athletes in the 30th SEA Games and…

Nightmarish education WHETHER our educators today like it or not, the embarrassing results of the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) that placed Filipinos ranking among the lowest in the world in the company of Dominican Republic, Kosovo and Lebanon should kick them in the butt. Those results created…

Unstudied, incomplete commission report THE report of the Dagupan City’s Flood Mitigation Commission came as disappointment because it turned out merely like an executive brief that failed to give Dagupeños the clear direction it promised.  What it simply did was to list options that the city can opt for to…

Are the drug syndicates back? THE recent revelation of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Director-General Aaron Aquino that the agency already seized illegal drugs valued at P7-6-B is both a welcome news and yet an alarming indicator. It means the drug syndicates operating in the country have not slowed down one…