Pangasinan as ‘The Christmas Province’ PANGASINAN is again in the national news, not the kind that Pangasinenses can be proud of. The De Lima-Dayan saga highlights nothing but insidious and criminal about their relationship and links to the illegal drug trade. There is one happy story to be told about…

Back to square one THE decision of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to deny the request of the provincial government to use a portion of the Camp Tito Abat in Manaoag as the site for the rehabilitation-cum-boot program for the thousands of drug users and pushers that surrendered,…

A blot in governance WE’D like to believe that, finally, we’ve seen the last of the illegal fish pens in Dagupan City, given what the city legal office said – All illegal fish pens have to go! For more than four years, the city agriculture office was tolerated to allow…

Distinct Asian tact for diplomacy AS we went to the press last week, we received the news that our fishermen from Infanta were finally able to fish inside the Scarborough Shoal. The details of the initial report literally and completely answered the concerns of our fishermen that we published in…

So near yet so far THE song “So near yet so far” made popular by a 1941 movie, suddenly rings a bell to the elderly fishermen in Infanta town who look in the direction of the Scarborough Shoal with moist eyes. Before President Duterte left for China for his historic…