Unethical and highly irregular By Bebot Villar   LAST July 7, 2015, Comelec released a list of 36 candidates who ran during the 2010 and 2013 elections nationwide, who will be charged for alleged overspending. The list did not include a single candidate from our town, Sto. Tomas. Hence, I…

Jojo Binay invaded Pangasinan By Jun Velasco   “The presidency is destiny,” Senator Bongbong Marcos   CLIMATE Change. This phenomenon is starkly creating havoc in our environment. The extended downpour from typhoons Egay, Falcon and, Gadang is sending us a message that life is no longer the same, and we…

Ashok, be a statesman, not politician! By Gonzalo T. Duque   WE’RE back! Sorry for our unexpected long absence. We purposely did not give our esteemed publisher Ermin and confidant Jun V an idea where we had been. We just wanted to be “alone,” well, to do something different and…

Success depends on cooperation By Bebot Villar   CONGRATULATIONS to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA)-1 Regional Director, Adrian Alvarino, Pangasinan PPO OIC Provincial Director PS/SUPT Rollie M. Saltat and P/Chief Inspector, Abraham B. Hambon, OIC, Rosales Police Station, Rosales, Pangasinan for their successful operation last July 8, 2015. They…

Ecotour Pangasinan! By Johanne Macob LAST weekend, my three “sisters” and I spent a two-day-one-night vacation in Bolinao. However, we were not able to pursue our plans to explore ‘the’ Patar Beach, spelunking the caves and experiencing any of the Bolinao Falls. We didn’t even get the chance to cruise…

Ashok Vasandani is Dagupan mayoral timber By Jun Velasco   “A nation without a knowledge of its past and forbears will have an uncertain future,” – Anon   THE tragic life of former child actor Jiro Manio, most everyone’s “idolo” who played the lead role in the award-winning “Magnifico” film…

Abusive DepEd official By Bebot Villar   THE Department of Education’s Secretary, Bro. Armin Luistro is known to be amiable and very approachable. Wherever he goes, people can see the ready smile on his face. I just wonder why one of his officers in the province, in contrast, appears to…

Noel E. Verzosa writes from Las Vegas By Jun Velasco   “Education is not received. It is achieved,” E.C. Mckenzie   A RED-LETTER year. Six Pangasinenses – all graduates of the University of Pangasinan-Phinma College of Nursing — have every reason to blow their horns for landing in the Top…

Good news from the frontlines By Bebot Villar   RECENTLY, thanks to high police visibility in Dagupan City, a group of armed men was arrested by the police while on patrol in Barangay Lucao. Nabuko ang plano nila na patayin ang isang businessman. ‘Yan ang Dagupan City! Dahil sa police…

UP loves Pangasinan! By Johanne R. Macob I’LL forever be grateful to the University of the Philippines. This despite the recent controversy which put UP, particularly, my beloved Baguio campus in the limelight, but on a rather negative sense. All 27 students from the same college as I was, College…