Drugs in schools, colleges THE biggest target market of the drug syndicates are students whether young or adult.  There are already indications that grade schools are already being slowly penetrated using high school students as pushers. The growing student population in Pangasinan makes the province a rich primary target and…

Take a bow, UNLISERBISYO! AS Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez exits after six glorious years of public service, Dagupeños take cognizance of the new meaning of public service in this day and age that she and her team laboriously defined on every turn. There was endless flurry of activities and…

Barangay tanod, front-liner THERE has been a rash of rape and gruesome killings in communities. One cannot but wonder where the members of the barangay security, we know them as tanod, are or have been all these days. Are there no more tanod patrols of the old, they who enforce…

Ban plastics now PAGING all sanggunian bodies in Pangasinan. Climate change is upon us and it’s bad enough that our local governments have not established nor adopted mitigating measures to minimize its deathly impact on communities. Worse, our local governments continue to maintain open dumpsites in the province. Neither do…

Timely counter-offensives vs illegal drugs THE latest marching orders of Pangasinan’s acting police provincial director, P/Col. Redrico Maranan, are very reassuring that the war on drugs in the province will further intensify amid reports of slowly resurging activities of drug syndicates even as 347 barangays remain drug-affected. The recent timely…