The DENR and Pangasinan’s open dump sites The discovery of an illegal open dumpsite in Tayug by an investigating team of the Department of Natural Resources brings to the fore the unabated practice of local government units maintaining open dumpsites in defiance of the law prohibiting it. What is worrisome…
Police credibility and integrity Two weeks ago, Chief PNP Director-General Arturo Lomibao described how he would like his countrymen to remember his stint as commander of the national police organization. He said he wants to be remembered as the chief who restored dignity in the police service. Dignity means a…
Speaker JdV can be the next generation’s hero Pangasinan’s political icon, Speaker Jose de Venecia, has doggedly pursued the shift from the presidential-bicameral system to a parliament-unicameral system via a Constituent Assembly over the past year, and it has not seen the light of day and it does seem it…
Let’s help our public schools! The presidential public scolding of the officer-in-charge of the Department of Education two weeks ago brought to the fore the worsening situation in and neglect of the country’s public education system. While the issue at hand was the varying definition of the formula to address…
The ‘Enchanted Kingdom’ is here Millions of parents in the country can only sympathize with the dedicated Department of Education officials who got bawled out for trying to get more support for their endeavors by being candid and truthful about the woeful situation of education in the country today. More…
Is the government helpless or is it behind the assassination of journalists and activists? Last week, the oft-garrulous and off-target Secretary of Justice Raul Gonzalez did it again. In response to the human rights commission’s and organizations of journalists’ charge that the Arroyo government is not doing enough to stop…
Is the police helpless vs. the punks? The Peace and Order Council of Dagupan City has reason to be frustrated and alarmed by the inability of the law enforcement agencies to check the growing hooliganism and violence perpetrated by gangs of punks disguised as fraternities. The situation in the city…
An enduring legacy for the environment WHEN the PUNCH first reported the results of the findings of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources two weeks ago, finding the rivers inside six of Dagupan City’s barangays seriously contaminated with coliform bacteria, the city government immediately went into a denial mode,…
How much this time? The Holy Week is over and the province is witnessing the resurrection of another kind, the evil kind. Jueteng is back in Pangasinan, particularly in the third and sixth districts. And curiously, Chief PNP Arturo Lomibao, he who declared that jueteng and other forms of illegal…
Festivals at people’s expense if one were to witness how fiestas and festivals are observed in Dagupan City, one would begin to wonder why anyone would make us believe that the country’s economy is in shambles. Between the earsplitting roar of engines of long motorcades that make a worsening oil…
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