By Rex Catubig FOREWORD: By a stroke of serendipity, I came across this piece I wrote in the Village Voice Newsmagazine of Cesar Duque, which detailed the assassination of a police officer in a town then infamous for unsolved killings. It’s been almost four decades, but with the spate…
FIELD OF SPICE — A farmer tends to his onion farm early in the day in Barangay Macayo in Alcala town. Onion farming is one of the sources of income and livelihood for farmers in this part of the region. (Punchphtoto by Willie Lomibao)
PANGASINAN’S BEST – Visitors at the three-day International Food Expo (IFEX) 2025 at the World Trade Center in Pasay City which started last Thursday view the export-quality food products of Pangasinan on display at the three-day International Food Expo (IFEX) 2025 at the World Trade Center in Pasay City which started…
LAND DISTRIBUTION FROM THE VILLAR’S PROPERTIES — Sto. Tomas Vice Mayor Dick Villar, together with his wife Daisy (center), poses for posterity with some of the land title recipients or their representatives—from the Villar family’s land distribution on May 21 in Barangay San Bartolome, Rosales town. They are joined by local…
THE Dagupan City government recently visited the Seafood Processing Complex and met with the BFAR-NIFTDC Dagupan and DENR-EMB Region I representatives for the accreditation of the facility under the co-management of the city and BFAR. Mayor Belen Fernandez said the application for accreditation in line with the city’s plans to…
THE decision of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to ask for the resignation of his cabinet members came on the heels of his seemingly heartfelt wish to reconcile and unite with the Duterte family. With no positive response from the Duterte family, pundits and netizens see his decision to seek a…
By Rex Catubig I often wonder what spell it casts, but among the months, May is embedded in our consciousness, not for the colorful events it celebrates– the fiestas, Flores de Mayo, Santacruzan– but for the simple memories it holds amid the flamboyance of summer. May is youth remembered….
OUR people have spoken. Their voices have been heard. The province decided not only to keep many of the performing incumbent officials in office but also chose to vote for more qualified candidates as their legislators to serve in the Senate and in Congress. Notably, when the country feared of…
MANAY GINA IS BACK IN C0NGRESS — Comebacking former 4th District Rep. Manay Gina de Venecia, accompanied by former Speaker Jose de Venecia, is proclaimed the new congress representative by the provincial board of canvassers on Tuesday, May 13 may at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan session hall at the Capitol building in Lingayen. (Punchphoto…
FR SOC AT POLLING PLACE — Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas checks the receipt provided by the ACM after casting his vote at West Central Elementary School 1 in Dagupan City on Monday, May 12. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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