EMPTY SEATS OF BOYCOTTING COUNCILORS – Seats reserved for Councilors Librada Reyna-Macalanda, Marilou Fernandez, Redford Erfe-Mejia, Irene Lim-Acostas, Alvin Coquia, Celia Chua-Lim and Alfie Fernandez are empty during the roll all in last December 19’s regular session. The session was later adjourned for lack of quorum. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
AS the world mulls, prays and celebrates Christmas, what should Christmas mean to families and to their governments amid wars and economic crisis? During the Christmas season, the image of a baby born in a manger in Bethlehem is what Catholics and Christians all over the world remember as a…
“IWAS PAPUTOK “ — The Health Emergency management staff of Region 1 Medical Center lead by Dr. Camille Navarro put up a poster showing vivid photos of real injuries suffered by victims, at the entrance of the Emergency room to remind the public of the need to ‘Iwas paputok” . (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano)
‘SNOW SHOW’ IN LINGAYEN — A little boy riding on the shoulders of his father appears awed by the sudden downpour of ‘snow’ from the sky, simulating snowfall in USA, inside the Children’s Christmas Village at The Capitol Beach Park in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
INSTAGRAMMABLE PHOTOS ATOP QUINTOS BRIDGE — Dagupan residents and their visitors cram the Quintos Bridge on A.B. Fernandez Ave. every night for a chance to have their selfies and groupfies with the unique and creative colorful lights design in the background. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
UNLISERBISYO TWO hundred children in Sitio Japan, Bonuan Binloc were served a nutritious meal during the #GoodbyeGutom Zero Hunger in Dagupan last week. Together with the Binloc Barangay Council led by Kap Wilmer Castañares and SK officials led by Chairman Klee Alcaide, the city government’s feeding program taught the children…
By Rex Catubig VICTORIO Edades as an illustrious son of Dagupan may be the primus inter pares among the city’s brightest sons. But his memory precariously dangles on the corroding recall of people in the city he lived in, and in the fading fragile minds of those related to…
THE Guico administration was hardly fazed or showed concern that Pangasinan missed out on the Seal of Local Government Governance (SGLG) this year for the first time since the award was introduced in 2015 and made into law in 2019 by Congress. Vice Governor Mark Lambino naturally downplayed the impact…
DISNEY CHRISTMAS IN TAYUG — Tayug residents and visitors troop to the town plaza nightly to witness the experience of the Disneyland-inspired features and to take in the glow of the bright Christmas lights that adorn the Disney Castle and Christmas trees. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
By Rex Catubig 2,000 years ago, an unlikely birth made the biblical headlines, and subsequently became the matrix of Christianity. We are familiar with the circumstances of Joseph and Mary’s trek to Bethlehem from their home in Nazareth to comply with an edict for villagers to return to their…
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