SEA, SUN and FUN — Tourists and locals are back at the Quezon Island of the famous Hundred Islands National Park in Alaminos City. The city is celebrating the Hundred Islands Festival this March. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
MAYOR Belen Fernandez wants the Bulacan bangus to stop entering the markets in the city to protect the indigenous Dagupan bangus! She revealed her plan during the committee hearing on the 2023 annual city budget by the finance, budget and appropriations committee composed of the seven majority councilors of Dagupan…
YES, that’s what brothers Emphil and Edralde Pascua do and it is paying off. They remembered how fame slowly dawned on their business when Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia visited and interviewed them sometime in 2021, as the official’s way of helping Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) like theirs….
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE, avid fans of basketball games, watched on TV how the two professional teams of San Miguel Corporation booted out their respective opponents convincingly in the quarterfinals of this year’s Governors’ Cup held last March 17 and March 19, and both entered the semifinals….
BOYS AND THE DRONES – Young indigenous boys of Brgy. Malico in San Nicolas town, are amused by the four flying drones being demonstrated in front of them. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) passed a resolution declaring Malico in the eastern town of San Nicolas as the ”Barangay Summer Capital of Pangasinan” during its out-of-town session in Barangay Malico, San Nicolas on March 20. On motion of Sixth District Board Member Noel Bince, the measure adopted an earlier resolution on…
INDIGENOUS PROPLE’S RIGHTS ACT OF 1997 AN ethnic tribe in San Nicolas, Pangasinan has asked the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to allocate one seat in its chamber for members of Indigenous People (IPs) or Indigenous Cultural Communities (ICCs) as mandated by law. The Kalanguya tribe of Barangay Malico in San Nicolas made the…
FOR PLAYING POLITICS “ENOUGH is enough!” This was the clear retort of Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez to the latest demand of the seven councilors in the majority as a pre-condition for the passage of the 2023 annual budget when she attended the March 21 Dagupan Sangguniang Panglungsod’s committee on…
PREPARATIONS are in full swing for the expected massive influx of pilgrims to the Minor Basilica of the Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Manaoag during the Holy Week observance. Mayor Jeremy Agerico Rosario said he already met with Church leaders as well as the police and military, traffic…
NO RELIEF FOR HOUSEHOLDS IT’S the harvest season for rice in Pangasinan but households are seeing its opposite effect in local market. Instead of seeing a drop in prices of rice, the prices have increased: Prices of regular and well-milled rice range from P38 to P46, or a P1 increase,…
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