PANGASINAN couldn’t be prouder of its son, Dr. Francisco T. Duque III, the country’s outgoing Health Secretary, he who single-mindedly led the nation’s campaign to beat the COVID-19 pandemic… and succeeded! As one of the key and most trusted cabinet members of the Duterte government, it was not surprising that…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. OUTGOING Dagupan Mayor Brian Lim is facing another dilemma. Will he veto the 2022 annual budget that he proposed but will not benefit his administration or simply approve it as his last act of acceptance that he lost in his political poker he played with…
By Al S. Mendoza FROM the ranks of losers in the May 9 elections also come the winners. Winners in money that is; not in votes. That’s because losers are mostly businessmen disguised as candidates come election time. They end up with their pockets lined up with moolah after the…
By Gonzalo Duque I congratulate the ascendancy of Congressman Conrad Estrella III of the Abono party list as secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform, a post once held by his late grandfather and namesake Conrado F. Estrella who was DAR’s first secretary for 16 years and also former…
By Leonardo Micua THE changing of the guards in some local governments in Pangasinan will happen soon. Of course, there will be some changes and some new faces coming to work with the new officials. That is understandable, as clear as the blue sky. Those holding co-terminus positions, including…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo I was not supposed to be in this meeting. My tooth ached and my gums were inflamed. My face was swollen, like I just ate a female crab with all the red roe, prawns and other seafood I was allergic to, but addicted to them…
By Farah G. Decano THERE is so much buzz circulating in social media nowadays about the recent split of local music industry’s power couple, Moira and Jason. Weren’t they the same couple who wrote heartwarming love songs together? Wasn’t their wedding filled with scenic pictures of the groom tearfully…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. WE saw on tv how our country mate World Boxing Council (WBC) bantamweight champion Nonito “The Filipino Flash” Donaire suffered a humiliating defeat against Naoya Inoue, his counterpart in the bantamweight division (118-pound) the World Boxing Association (WBA) and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titleholder,…
By Rex Catubig TO paraphrase a writer’s thought, “Why did our leaders give our people the freedom they don’t really need, rather than the bread he badly wants?” In the context of the colonial past, with the discrimination and abuses documented in two epochal novels, our leaders might have…
DAGUPAN’S REENACTED BUDGET TO END THE Sangguniang Panlungsod finally passed Dagupan City’s 2022 P1.380 billion annual budget unanimously but not without an attempt by the minority to append to the approved budget what it referred to as a “Minority Report”. Ordinance No. 2244-2022, authorizing the annual budget of the City…
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