SINCE President Marcos Jr. assumed his coveted post in July 2022, his administration has been noted for three things: the most traveled president in six months, spiraling prices of rice, sugar and onions, and last but not the least, the creation and promotion of Maharlika Investment Fund, earlier bandied as…

IT was all a misunderstanding. This may be a politically-correct reaction from the Philippine National Police leadership to the brouhaha over the reported harassment of the widow of an onion farmer who committed suicide, but that is an understatement as well. It was an embarrassing encounter for all the parties…

FOR decades, the country has been witnessing celebrations touting the Chinese culture about wealth and prosperity. In fact, perhaps most are totally unaware that the Pinoy tradition of lighting fireworks and having round fruits and objects in homes to celebrate each New Year are adoptions of traditions to celebrate the…

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…