LAST week, the news about Rappler’s CEO Maria Ressa being named a Nobel Peace Prize winner for her work in journalism was met with both applause and shock, depending on one’s political inclination. In short there was no national jubilation that could come close to Hidilyn Diaz’s triumph as the…
IT has been said that Filipinos have short memory… of both good and the bad. This is particularly true about our local politics, candidates and their campaign promises. And what’s truly sad is more voters only remember what candidates dished out in cash and groceries during the past campaign. That,…
ELECTION of national and local elections in 2022 will be like no other. It is certain that all candidates that will be voted into office will have to face new challenges in the first three to six years of the New Normal. It is for this reason that communities must…
THERE is an imminent hazardous economic activity looming ahead for the province’s next generations. We refer to the offshore mining activity covering 10,064 hectares of the Lingayen Gulf fronting Sual, Labrador, Lingayen, Binmaley, Dagupan City and San Fabian. Unless the Iron Ore and Vanadium Resources (Phils.), the mining proponent, can…
THE decision of the 21 mayors to suspend opening of classes in their respective towns and cities, invoking the health and safety of their constituents as a priority may be providential. But their unilateral decision to suspend the start of classes also indicates how unprepared they are being the chief…
THE Pangasinan provincial government is reeling from the sudden surge of COVID-19 infection over the past two weeks after seeing indicators that flattening of the curve soon is possible. There were more patients recovering than new active cases. But that was short-lived. The roof fell soon as Delta cases were…
THE known public “secret” about the suspected collusion between PhilHealth officials and some hospitals over the misuse of public funds for COVD-19 treatment, the same problem that led to the national government’s nightmare amid the pandemic, is finally out. The National Bureau of Investigation office in Dagupan City, on the…
PANDEMONIUM has set in and nothing seems to work in reining in the seeming runaway contagion. Has the COVID-19 virus just suddenly become highly infectious that people are catching the virus from everywhere, and more people are being rushed to the hospital, more people are dying? No. Or, are we…
SEEK cover!! That order was heard a thousand times during the First and Second World Wars to soldiers manning the trenches in the face of incessant bombing by warplanes in the sky. That order to health workers at the frontlines of the war vs. COVID-19 couldn’t be more timely at…
FOR months and weeks since the COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed by the World Health Organization in 2020, the world has been stormed with numbers and statistics as data and as basis for people around the world to understand the risks, threats and deadly impact of COVID-19. At the rate the…
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