College diploma or drugs   THE Commission on Higher Education’s (CHEd) announced mandatory random drug testing policy to be conducted in universities, colleges and other higher education institutions next academic year is timely in the face of increasing number of crimes being committed by drug users. As studies have shown,…

Pangasinan Beach, a vision and a dream  WHAT most thought was unthinkable turned out to be the best thing that ever happened. We are referring to the surprise and unexpected order to transform Boracay Beach from a cesspool to the world’s finest anew. That it happened the way it did,…

Make barangay chairmen accountable   THE recent admission of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office that it can no longer meet its target to make the whole province drug-cleared this year is both understandable and reassuring. We say it’s understandable and reassuring because it’s clear that PPPO is not working under…

Wanted: Strict enforcement of election laws FOR too long and since the constitution was amended in 1986, “political dynasty” was deemed evil and our constitution banned it without as much defining what constitutes a political dynasty. An attempt was made to finally define it but has been made to apply…

The demands of new politics PANGASINAN will again be agog the whole week over who will be their likely political leaders in the next three years by watching who’s who, for what position and against whom, when the wannabes file their certificates of candidacies.  One thing is definite though, since…