The Bayambang ‘face-to-face’ tutorial hub THE local government of Bayambang is on the right track, organizing its community-based Distance Learning Enhancement Program, basically a tutorial hub for Grades 7 to 10 students in the English language, Math and Science subjects. It’s the ideal prescription for students in our towns and…

Urgency for Department of Disaster Resiliency THE recent flood disaster in Cagayan and Isabela of catastrophic proportion this month, and in recent years in our own region, definitely and completely provide the urgency to create the Department of Disaster Resiliency and Emergency Management. Why it doesn’t seem so for our…

Let’s give agriculture a face – the Farmers’  WE’VE been calling the attention of both the Department of Agriculture and our colleagues in media to give the agriculture industry a face – that of the farmers and fishermen being the main stakeholders. For too long, both DA and media refer…

The realization: Surviving as a community PANGASINAN has reasons to feel fortunate. It has been spared from the wrath of super typhoon ‘Rolly’ that wreaked havoc along its path and the number of patients recovering for COVID-19 infection is increasing, bigger than registered new confirmed cases. Being spared from a…

No reunion with lost loved-ones PEOPLE’S minds wandered aimlessly since October 31 on realizing that they could not visit tombs of their loved-ones particularly during the period November 1-2 (All Saints Day and All Souls Day). After all, these two days are the only two days in the year that…