ANYARE SA MALINAC LAY LABI? — When you talk of Pangasinan music, which is the heart of our province, the one that automatically comes to mind is Malinac Lay Labi, right? But it’s saddening and heartbreaking to hear Pangasinan’s top folksong, Malinac Lay Labi, become a song for accompanying cortége…
MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL — The visibly irked Mayor Belen Fernandez did not mince words to rebuke Vice Mayor Brian Lim for accusing her that she wants the city hall transferred to another site badly because she is plotting to convert the lot occupied by the present city hall as…
OUR HELPLESSNESS. The Philippines need not be over-confident or complacent over the uneasy development in the Korean Peninsula, which was exacerbated the last few days by North Korea’s test of its first hydrogen bomb, a weapon of mass destruction said to be more lethal than nuclear bomb. This was our original reaction to Facebook post of…
SHOOTING THE MESSENGER, AGAIN — PD Ronald Lee doesn’t like the way Pangasinan newsmen give importance to the information shared by a certain Eco Dangla on the armed encounter between alleged New People’s Army and government troops in San Nicolas town. The first time the clash happened on July 28,…
MORE FACTS ABOUT RAPE –One interesting fact unraveled by Senior Inspector Ria Tacderan, chief of the Provincial Women and Children Protection Desk of the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) at the KBP Forum on Thursday is the fact that not only girls and women could be victims of rape but also…
WHIMSICAL VIOLATION OF HOUSE RULES — The Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) is perhaps the only legislative body in the Philippines and may be in all the democratic institutions that is holding its regular sessions on days depending on the convenience and availability of one or some of its members in gross…
UNFORGETABLE VACATION. Ten members of a legislative body, their chief executive and five department heads were set to have their grand vacation in Hong Kong last month. Their volunteer-sponsor for an all-expense paid tour plus an expected “something for shopping” was their chief executive. Please don’t ask me if that…
DILG, COA CALLED THE BLUFF – We waited for Councilor Redford Erfie Mejia to stand up and challenge the DILG legal opinion read by Jose Netu Tamayo in his privilege speech before the city council, being the one of only two opposed to the transfer of city hall to a donated land in Barangay Pantal. But he…
MBTF’S P13.4-M VS. MBSL’S P30-M LYING-IN CLINIC – During the last session of the Dagupan City council on July 24 a comparison was made between the Diagnostic Center and Lying-in Clinic being built by Mayor Belen Fernandez and the ambitious but unsuccessful Maternal and Child-Care Hospital and Lying-in Center planned by the Lim administration…
OPPOSITION’S 2019 PLAN DOOMED. The presence of former Dagupan Mayor Al Fernandez at the second State of the City Address (SOCA) of Mayor Belen Fernandez and his endorsement of the transfer of the Dagupan City hall send a strong message that he fully supports the administration of Mayor Belen. This…
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