By Eva C. Visperas TWO media colleagues recently confessed their weariness of the ongoing campaign season. My response, a resounding “No!” delivered with a wide grin, prompted a curious inquiry. Why, they asked, did I seem to relish this period? The answer, I explained, is multifaceted. Firstly, there’s the…
By Rex Catubig IT was sometime in the mid-1990s that a friend of mine, while I was on my holiday vacation, invited me to join him and a couple of other friends to do some charity work for the season. He warned me, however, that it would not be a…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! MARCH 25 – (Dagupan City) Clarissa Servito; (Mangaldan) Arthuro Mendoza, Christopher Mendoza MARCH 26 – (Dagupan City) Lailani de Vera; (Calasiao) Caridad de Guzman MARCH 29 – (Mangaldan) Orlando Sales; (Calasiao) Armando de Guzman Happy Birthday! ERMIN GARCIA, JR. (March 23 – Dagupan City) Happy Birthday! RONALD TALANIA…
THE Mother and Child Hospital that would have brought immeasurable relief to mothers and their children in Dagupan City over their health concerns is lost. The credit for it belongs to the seven councilors who were dead set on stopping it for the past three years. Celebrating city’s loss today…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE action-filled drama and suspense last week on the “kidnapping” of former President Rodrigo Duterte ‘will certainly create an opportunity for an independent filmmaker to produce a two-hour blockbuster documentary movie. It had all the ingredients – deception by Marcos Jr. about involvement of foreign…
STATE OF DAGUPAN CITY – Mayor Belen Fernandez addresses city government officials, stakeholders and residents with her annual report of the city’s 2024 state of affairs at the CSI Stadia on March 18, 2025. The seven councilors of the majority bloc were absent. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
CITY HALL OPERATIONS REMAIN NORMAL URDANETA City’s top four councilors as of March 19 have officially expressed their refusal to serve as acting mayor and vice mayor and the other six, all political allies of Mayor Julio Parayno III and Vice Mayor Jimmy Parayno, are expected to make the same…
DAGUPAN Mayor Belen Fernandez said she is confident that the city can have a P2-billion economy before the end of 2025, citing current economic trends as well as the numerous awards and recognitions achieved by the city over the last two years under her administration. “We know we are doing…
INTEL WORK VS DRUG FUNDS CONTINUE THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Pangasinan has temporarily suspended its drug clearing operations in barangays as preparations ramp up for the May 12 election. PDEA Provincial Chief Rechie Camacho announced last week that the decision to pause their operations is to avoid…
LINGAYEN-DAGUPAN Archbishop Socrates Villegas, in his Lenten message read in Mass in all churches in the archdiocese on March 16, called for unity, sobriety, and reflection amid what he referred to as a “constant state of crisis” in the country and the deepening divisions created by political chaos in the…
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