By Leonardo Micua DURING the third regular session of the Sangguniang Panglunsod of Dagupan (there was no quorum after the inaugural session), Councilor Jigs Seen broke the ice by delivering a privilege speech directed at the heart of the new majority when he slammed the new Internal Rules and Procedures (IRP…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo LAST night, my sister noticed that there were piles of construction materials dumped on the adjacent lot we had maintained cleaning for several months now. The ampalaya (bitter gourd) was buried under the rubbles, and its leaves wilted from the weight carelessly dumped at its…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. UNDOUBTEDLY, our country’s number one favorite sport then and now is basketball. But sad to say that two of our latest and prestigious international stints by our Philippines national basketball team called “Gilas Pilipinas” unexpectedly suffered humiliating defeats. The first was in the latest biennial…
By Rex Catubig I’M haunted by memories of catastrophes. Yet I was never in any of them. As a young boy, I was raised on stories around the massive brick columns that lay on the riverbank of Calmay. The overriding theme was the Great Flood of 1935, way before…
DANGEROUS PLAYGROUND – Children play by the Pantal River practically covered by water lilies behind the Pantal Barangay Hall unsupervised, unaware of a fatal accident waiting to happen. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
A 22-year-old man is under observation after a drunk motorcycle rider ran over him along the bypass road in Barangay Nancayasan, Urdaneta City Monday night, July 18. Victim Mark Bongolan, a resident of Barangay San Jose, Urdaneta City was crossing the road after buying snacks, when Vincent Espinoza, 26, a…
A man was crushed to death by a ten-wheeler truck after falling down from his motorcycle dawn of Tuesday, July 19 along the McArthur Highway in Barangay Bacag in Villasis town. Victim Butch Gallardo, of legal age, resident of Bontoc, Mountain Province, was trying to overtake on the right side…
THE Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) in Dagupan City will soon begin issuing traffic citation tickets for illegally parked vehicles in the city. Arvin Decano, POSO chief, ordered enforcers to start monitoring ‘no parking areas’ and warn motorists of plans to strictly enforce the city ordinance on parking in…
THERE has been 107 percent increase in acute gastroenteritis (AGE) cases from January to July 18 this year in Pangasinan. Surveillance Monitoring of the Provincial Health Office (PHO) reveals 3,641 cases were recorded this year, compared to 1,674 cases recorded last year over the same period. So far, 19 individuals…
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