HIGH TIDE WOES—A man assists his son to step on sandbags installed as temporary footbridges during a flood spawned by 1.4 meter high tide along A.B. Fernandez Avenue, triggering traffic gridlock at the corner of ABF Avenue and Burgos Street in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Buth Uka)
URDANETA City Mayor Julio Parayno III, who won his reelection bid in the May 12 elections, hinted he may still run for a fourth term – since he will be unable to complete a full three terms in office because of his current one-year suspension and an earlier 90-day suspension…
NO QUORUM IN DAGUPAN SP LAST SESSION THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) ended its tumultuous three-year term without a quorum during its last session on June 24, with only five councilors present. Those in attendance were Councilor Alfie Fernandez, as the presiding officer, and Councilors Librada Reyna and Alvin Coquia,…
ASINGAN Mayor Carlos Lopez Jr. called for an investigation into a reported multi-million illegal recruitment scheme that has allegedly victimized several town residents. The move follows complaints from victims who were lured by a group offering jobs in Poland as fruit pickers, with a promise of high compensation. However, before…
A day after officially assuming his post as acting director of the Police Regional Office 1 (PRO1), Police B/Gen Dindo Reyes promptly conducted his first round of inspections across police stations in Pangasinan on June 22. Among those he visited were the stations in Manaoag, Pozorrubio, Urdaneta City, and Binalonan…
EARLY TRANSITION INTO FUN SITE SEEN THE first phase of the two-phase clearing of the Bonuan Dumpsite or 85% of the area has been completed, and operations for the remaining 15% are continuing, according to Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez. The more than 60-year-old dumpsite will be transformed into an…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. THE rainy season is here, now comes the time to validate or question the decision of the DPWH and the Mayor Belen Fernandez administration, whether the elevation of the major commercial roads and the drainage system was the right thing to do. The elevation projects…
By Gonzalo Duque THE impeachment brouhaha may not result in anything as the group supporting the impeachment process, like Rep-elect Leila de Lima and all the other congressional representatives assigned to prosecute Vice President Sara Duterte are headed to nothingness. Maybe, they should instead pay attention to the myriad…
By Leonardo Micua THOUGH I wore a MAGA (Make America Great Again) baseball cap gifted by our Los Angeles City-based correspondent Leonie Galvez on some occasions, I must admit I was not really a Donald Trump fan. Well, not until he recently brokered what seemed to be a total…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo ON 22 June 2025, I posted, “Einstein said, “… the distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion” with the caption: Quantum physics suggests that death may just be a transition to a more mysterious reality, that consciousness survives the…
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