IT is both disconcerting and worrisome to see the provincial government, seemingly helpless about the series of agriculture crisis, i.e., shortage of supply and runaway prices of rice and sugar today, and soon salt, hitting the country. Perhaps, Pangasinan may not be considered a major factor in resolving the issues…

WHILE President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been attending regional and international forums fast tracking economic development for the country while resolving issues ailing the agriculture sector, none of these events appear to impact on Governor Ramon Guico III. The provincial government under the newly installed Guico administration continues to be…

HERE we are again – most everyone is contemplating what happened to all their past New Year resolutions, particularly the broken ones, and how to frame the new ones cautiously without much optimism given how one’s past resolutions fared in the past. We in The Sunday PUNCH can only look…

THIS year’s Christmas will definitely be one of the more memorable ones, be it good and bad. It is the first Christmas celebration of the decade by thousands of families when practices of the old are embraced to rekindle the spiritual life and earthly love, without restraints but still cautious,…

AS Dagupeños mark and celebrate their city’s 75th year of cityhood, today’s generation must recall and teach how Dagupan came about first as a community, as a town and finally as a city. Below are excerpts from the “History of Dagupan” written by Restituto Basa, the acknowledged city’s historian. The…

THERE’S been a flurry positive and negative speculations about the plan of the House of Representatives to establish a country’s “wealth fund” coded as “Maharlika” that the ordinary citizens can hardly make some sense of it. At first glance, the first impression that one gets is that it is to…

DAGUPAN City is seeing its darkest hours yet in 75 years, a situation brought about by the vilest and ignoble collective political agenda of unscrupulous seven members of the majority at the Sangguniang Panlungsod, namely: Councilors Red Erfe-Mejia, Dada Reyna-Macalanda, Celia Lim and her daughter, Irene Lim-Acosta, Alvin Coquia, Alfie…

ONE of the issues highlighted by the recent visit of US Vice President Kamala Harris to the Philippines was her government’s intent to seek an expansion of its military presence in the Philippines. This was subsequently followed by her statement in presence of President BBM: “An armed attack on the…

IF there is one legacy that the past administration of Mr. Brian Lim, as mayor of Dagupan City, it’s about its officials’ and supporters’ wanton and licentious plunder of the city’s resources in the belief that they can get away literally with murder. Never mind that collections of taxes and…

THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan is reportedly set to approve the proposed 2023 provincial budget this week. With no prior detailed information from the provincial government, it is not known if the proposed budget is a “Climate Change” budget or much of the same administrative and operational thrusts as in the past….