THE Philippine Science High School (PSHS)-Ilocos Region Campus in San Ildefonso, Ilocos Sur is accepting and processing applications online of incoming Grade 7 scholars for School Year (SY) 2023 to 2024. PSHS-Ilocos Region Campus will implement an alternative selection process called RACE or the Requirement for Admission, Criteria and Evaluation to screen prospective scholars to prevent the spread of…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! JULY 17 – (Dagupan City) Penaflor Quinto JULY 18 – (Dagupan City) Joneahlyn Abarcar; (USA) ARTURO C. BUSTRIA JULY 21- (Dagupan City) BERNIE ERRASQUIN; (Lingayen) Leonard Gil G. Cabuang; (Kentucky, USA) MICHELLE McCormicks JULY 23 – (Dagupan City) ROSELLE GALE, Grace Flores; (Manaoag) Jocelyn P. Mendoza, Elma Jimenez…
ERMIN Erfe Garcia founded your Sunday PUNCH on July 5, 1956. He wanted a pocket-size newspaper (tabloid size papers were unknown then) that’d be easier for readers to handle. Today, aside from the changes in the paper’s physical dimension and page formats over time, your PUNCH has not digressed nor…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. SOMETHING uncanny hit home with the revelation of the Municipal l Agriculture Office in San Fabian town – that most of the illegal fish pens in that town were actually owned by businessmen from Dagupan City. With the unprecedented big number of illegal fish…
By Al S. Mendoza INVESTMENTS, like gas pedals to our cars, spur, if not speed up, economic growth. No country will survive without investments, both local and foreign. Local funds help gun up commerce two-ways, as in Filipino businessmen working their butts out for the ultimate benefit of fellow…
By Gonzalo Duque I attended the inauguration of the Dagupan Diagnostic Center in Barangay Herrero-Perez, led by Mayor Belen Fernandez last Wednesday morning. It’s a long overdue project of Mayor Belen that was ignored and abandoned by the Lim administration, simply because it was not his project. I was shocked…
By Leonardo Micua I cannot imagine that until Wednesday, July 6, Mayor Belen Fernandez only received a hazy picture of the finances of Dagupan, particularly the budget left in every office, from the city’s finance committee composed of the city budget officer, accountant and treasurer. What’s keeping that committee…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo HE was, the son of a king, who was made by her mother, who made kings. They were immortals, biding time in the long sleep of a wink, and smelling blood, they resurrected. But he, coming out of his father’s bile, was not even half…
By Farah G. Decano THE prohibitive filing fees in courts surely pose an obstacle to the Filipino’s access to justice, especially the middle class. The so-called poor can always file for free because they may present themselves as pauper litigants while the rich will not mind the expense. It…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I received several queries from some sports aficionados after Gov. Ramon Guico, III officially took his oath of office as the new chief executive of our province Pangasinan. They asked me if I know what’s in store for sports in the province with Gov….
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