By Leonardo Micua WISHING everyone a joyful Christmas! As the angel proclaimed to the shepherds the birth of Jesus Christ, we also say: “Peace on Earth and Goodwill to All!” This holiday season, have you noticed a significant reduction in fireworks compared to previous years? We notice this nightly…
By Farah G. Decano IT is a common observation that those who hold the reins of government often grant special privileges to the wealthy—whether in exchange for private favors or to avoid conflict with the influential. Conversely, policymakers provide subsidies and social safety nets to the marginalized, often securing…
By Eva C. Visperas IT looked like an ordinary Monday morning at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan—the last regular session of the year. The usual faces were there. The usual routine unfolded. Media practitioners quietly settled into their familiar corners of the session hall and the Vice Governor’s lounge, ears tuned…
By Rex Catubig POPPING up like a repressed traumatic memory, amid the heartbreaking stories in the wake of Typhoon Odette some years back, is the brave birth of a baby on a sidewalk lashed by rampaging wind and rain. It harks back to similar stories, in different locales, but under…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo THE death of former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) undersecretary Maria Catalina Cabral involves no foul play, according to Secretary Jonvic Remulla of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). This very quick assessment was tempered by the statement of Jose Melencio…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! DECEMBER 14 – (Dagupan City) May Abad; (Mapandan) Rowena Torio DECEMBER 15 – (Calasiao) Cristina Calaunan DECEMBER 16 – (Dagupan City) Wendell de Guzman; (Mangaldan) Diony Aquino; ( Calasiao) Christopher Llamas Happy Birthday! ANGELITO DE VERA (December 14 – Dagupan City) Happy Birthday! MARIFI JARA (December 15 –…
NOT IN PANGASINAN OR ANYWHERE ELSE THIRTY-three bishops across the Philippines, led by Lingayen–Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, have issued a strongly worded pastoral letter rejecting the proposed construction of a nuclear power plant in Labrador, Pangasinan—or anywhere else in the country. The letter, released on December 4 and addressed to national…
CARLO ACUTIS RELIC — On December 9, Catholics welcomed the pericardium relic of Saint Carlo Acutis as it made its way to the Metropolitan Cathedral Parish of St. John the Evangelist in Dagupan City. This visit marks the relic’s inaugural journey to the Philippines, having already been taken to several…
SECOND District Representative Mark Cojuangco has blasted the pastoral letter signed by 33 Catholic bishops opposing the proposed nuclear power plant in Labrador, calling it “full of factual errors” and “misleading the public.” Cojuangco, a longtime advocate of nuclear energy, said he has spent years explaining the project to his…
OVER FABRICATED GHOST PROJECT ALLEGATIONS THE Office of the Ombudsman has issued a clearance for former Pangasinan Rep. Christopher De Venecia, who was unduly linked to alleged anomalous flood control projects. The clearance, issued last December 3, states that De Venecia has no pending criminal and administrative cases with the Ombudsman…
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