LESSER EXPLOSIONS — As in previous years, this year’s welcome of the New Year saw fewer fireworks, with noticeably less pyrotechnic display lighting up the sky, likely due to the rising cost of firecrackers and pyrotechnics. The photo shows residents welcoming the New Year by watching bursting firecrackers and pyrotechnics…
DESTRUCTION OF SEIZED FIRECRACKERS— Marceliano Desamito Jr, Deputy Provincial Director for Administration, leads in the destruction of confiscated illegal firecrackers, pyrotechnics and improvised canons at the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office compound in Lingayen town on Saturday, December 27. (PUNCHphoto by Willie Lomibao)
GOOD LUCK FRUITS — A vendor along A.B. Fernandez Ave. in Dagupan City arranges her variety of round-shaped fruits for sale in anticipation of a demand for the traditional “good luck” fruits to welcome 2026, a practice supposed to bring prosperity to homes. (PUNCHphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THANKSGIVING FOR JDV AT 90—Speaker Jose C. de Venecia Jr. is joined by Manay Gina, Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez, and other city officials during a Thanksgiving dinner marking his 90th birthday on December 28, 2025, at Golden Bay Fresh Seafoods Restaurant along Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard in Pasay City. (PUNCHphoto by…
BUMPER-TO-BUMPER TRAFFIC— Heavy traffic builds up on New Year’s Eve along the Old De Venecia Highway from the Banaoang–Malued corner in Dagupan City, with stalled vehicles in a bumper-to-bumper standstill stretching for about two kilometers. The congestion was blamed on the absence of a traffic enforcer and compounded by a…
THE Filipino people stand united in their hope that 2026 will be a year of healing and progress, especially following the devastation of 2025, marked by natural disasters like typhoons, floods, and earthquakes that tragically claimed lives and worsened the plight of the poor and farmers. As we look ahead…
CHRISTMAS EVE MASS—The Saint John the Evangelist Metropolitan Cathedral in Dagupan glows in magnificent splendor at midnight of December 24 as thousands of Catholic devotees hear the midnight mass outside the church, unable to inch their way inside because the Cathedral was already filled to the brim. (PUNCHphoto by Willie Lomibao )
KADIWA ED KAPITOLYO—Fruits are among the products on display at the Kadiwa ed Kapitolyo held on the morning of December 25 at the Capitol Complex in Lingayen, offering affordable goods to capitol employees and other consumers. Along with the Kadiwa On Wheels na Kapitolyo, held at least twice a month,…
DAGUPAN FIRECRACKER BLAST — A makeshift firecracker factory exploded in Sitio Boquig, Barangay Bacayao Sur, Dagupan City on December 25, 2025, damaging a two-storey house where a large volume of firecrackers was being stockpiled. Responding to the incident were personnel from the Bureau of Fire Protection–Dagupan City, Panda Volunteer Fire…
PSU’S INDIGENOUS GAMES — Teaching and non-teaching personnel of Pangasinan State University (PSU) from its nine campuses across the province take part in a tug-of-war, while a staff member (inset) competes in the kadang-kadang race during the university’s Laro Laro 2025 held on December 19 at the PSU main campus…
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