A CITY councilor warned the Public Information Office at the Dagupan City Hall that if it will not stop posting lies and disinformation about the 2022 annual city budget whose approval remains pending at the Saggunian Panlungsod, it can expect a P1 budget in 2022. The warning was made by an…
NINETY-TWO percent of the of 58,122 eligible population (or 44,027) of teaching and non-teaching personnel of the Department of Education (DepEd) in Region 1 have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of February 21. In a virtual press conference last Tuesday, DepEd regional medical officer Dr. Romarie Castillo said of…
By Leonardo Micua ONE of the bombshells that the city councilors of Dagupan discovered in their review of the proposed Annual investment Plan was the non-enrollment of the indigents for two straight years. This is a very serious matter that needs to be looked into as Mayor Brian Lim…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo IT rains again, and I am calm. I have accepted you are gone. A thing I remember when it rains. I remember your eyes, your soft eyes against the backdrop of pine needles in whose tips tiny round balls of rain gather before they drop…
By Farah G. Decano THE love month is still here so I thought of a very intriguing but age-old issue in relationships – infidelity. It is very damaging not only to the couple’s relationship but also to the psyche of the cheater and most of all, the cheated. Because…
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. “IT’S summer time so it’s cycling time,” as the saying goes for media people comes summer time. Yes, that’s so true because in less than two weeks from today, the annual summer sports spectacle “LBC Ronda Pilipinas 2022” multi-stage cycling race will definitely reel off…
By Rex Catubig IT’S been two years since it happened, the historic event on a February love month that made the world sit up and notice this tiny patch of islands, whose people became giant poster figures of bravery amid adversity. But as I lay on my bed watching…
E-SABONG BETTING STATIONS SOON TO GO – The usual crowd of bettors that gather at e-sabong betting stations daily will soon disappear after Pagcor agreed to suspend e-sabong operations in the country as requested by the Senate after a committee hearing last Thursday. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
THE Ilocos Department of Education (DepEd Region 1) said that some 77 public schools in the region have started to participate in the expanded phase of face-to-face classes on Monday, Feb. 21. In a virtual press conference, DepEd Region Policy Planning and Research Division Officer Pedro Jose Cudal said the…
LINGAYEN-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas took the pulpit anew and expounded his views on current political events by providing a contrast between politics of the Marcos regime that led to EDSA People Power in 1986. Villegas referred to the 1986 uprising as a “yellow revolution as history writers saw the yellow…
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