HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! FEBRUARY 14- (Dagupan City) Mirriam Amador; Claire Cendana FEBRUARY 15- (Dagupan City) Aurora Mendoza; Rowena Fernandez FEBRUARY 17- (Calasiao) Ludina Sarmiento Happy Birthday! JUSTINE ANN GOLEZ (February 13 – Dagupan City) Happy Birthday! GERLOU MELECIO (February 13 – Dagupan City) Happy Birthday! NANCY MERCADO (February 14 – Mangaldan)…
THE official campaign period for the 2022 elections starts this week. And to see it take off is fraught with fears not only of renewed violence between political camps in the province, in districts and towns and cities but of widespread violation of Covid health protocols by the candidates abetted…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. OK, here we are… the campaign period is on. Unlike in boxing that has a few rules that referees watch out for, electoral contests in our country have a hundred and one rules that are either unenforceable or no one is interested to see these…
IN PREPARATION FOR MAY 9 POLLS THE perceived ‘battle royale’ in Pangasinan between the two gubernatorial aspirants has prompted the Police Regional Office to consider placing the whole province of Pangasinan as an area of immediate concern on or before the May 9 local and national elections. Hinting about the…
PROFITABLE FARMING – Assured of another windfall in sales this year, a farmer in Villasis town regularly sprays tobacco leaves with pesticides at a tobacco farm in Barangay Amamperez. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
LONG OVERDUE PER DBM/DILG THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod, in a special session on February 3, passed a resolution asking Mayor Brian Lim to submit the city’s Devolution Transition Plan (DTP) for its review and action as required by a joint memorandum circular of the Department Budget and Management and the Department…
THE number of active cases of COVID-19 in Pangasinan cases continues to shrink in many towns and cities of the province as shown by latest data released by the Provincial Health Office (PHO). The data shows there were only 944 active cases remaining in hospitals, isolation facilities and on home quarantine…
By Al S. Mendoza THE late dictator’s son has skipped the first major presidential public interview, disappointing some 62 million or so Filipino voters. It was Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s first major gaffe in the run-up to the national elections on May 9, 2022. His reason? He accused the immensely…
By Gonzalo Duque I received a planner for 2022 from Governor Amado “Pogi” Espino III. At the back of this planner is the official seal of the province of Pangasinan, that stated the province was founded in 1580. I am happy to see that in the seal. Note that…
By Leonardo Micua LATEST data from the Provincial Health Office, and even from the City Health Office, shows that Covid-19 is again on a downturn after surging at the start of the new year. If you look at it, it is the same trend that happened in the National…
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