Dagupan’s prospects AN economic boom is within reach of Dagupan City, Pangasinan’s main commercial hub, and the benefits from this growth could readily extend to its neighboring towns. Several big businesses are raring to make an investment in the city, including mall giants SM and Robinsons, and the city’s own…

Stop jueteng at the root HERE we go again with jueteng. The grand claim of our new provincial police director, Senior Superintendent Rosueto Ricaforte, that the illegal numbers game is now at “zero” level in Pangasinan is, well, grand but not exactly reassuring.

Ricaforte’s test case SENIOR Superintendent Rosueto Ricaforte, Pangasinan’s new police chief, is taking over a province that was acknowledged as the most peaceful in Region 1 during the May 10 election. As he takes on the post, another election is coming up, the barangay and Sanggunian Kabataan polls scheduled on…

Terror in Tayug TAYUG, although a geographically small 4th class municipality with about a 40,000 population, is an important town as it serves as the trading hub in the northeastern part of Pangasinan. The spate of unsolved shootings there, which started just after the bannered peaceful May 10 elections, resulting…

Getting out of the rot AS in many growing cities outside the country’s capital, like Baguio and Cebu for example, Dagupan is faced with a distressing garbage disposal crisis. It’s basically the same everywhere: the local government and the people are equally and jointly culpable for this problem: The local…