Giving agri sector a face IT has been the practice in government and media to report losses suffered by the agricultural sector in statistical form, i.e. Damage to agri: P1-billion. In this issue, we decided to give our readers the real score – that beyond and more than the statistics,…

Tests of resiliency CENTRAL Pangasinan has just barely recovered from the extended severe flooding in the last 30 days and here comes Typhoon Ompong again threatening to swamp Dagupan City and its neighbors with floodwaters and with far more damaging impact over the weekend. Fortunately and as expected, the resilience…

Crisis as an opportunity CRISIS in any situation can be viewed either as an opportunity or as a curse. As a curse, it leads one to desperation, trapped in one’s defeatist mindset left only with a hope that one can survive a crisis with a lot of help from others….

Save the Dagupan bangus AS the Dagupeños waded through floodwaters, the thought of felt scarcity of Dagupan bangus in markets did not seem to bother family households. Perhaps this occurrence was simply deemed a consequence of the extended severe flooding in the city, as it always was in the past….

Good intention, wrong application  THE Dagupan City Council adopted a resolution recommending the creation of a “Task Force on Anti-Flooding” to be led by City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez. Evidently, it is in response to residents’ frustrations manifested on social media over the extended days of flooding in the city….