The Old and the New By Emmanuelle This week’s article was written while waiting for the Cebu Pacific flight to Mindanao, the fabled land of promises. You see, before this writer plans to lay her head down to a sleep where there is no awakening, there is this standing promise…
PROMISING FINANCIAL SUPPORT Al for Dagupan mayor, Rachel for Congress THE often garrulous former Manila Congressman Mark Jimenez, speaking for more than one hour before political leaders and members of the media with his loose pants threatening to drop thrice, endorsed Undersecretary Antonio “Bebot” Villar for governor of Pangasinan, Immigration…
THE mystery of the missing steel bars and trusses retrieved from the burned private market owned by the Bugnay Construction and Development Corporation, which disappeared last year, may never be solved by the city council. This as contractor Robert Sison, through his counsel Atty. Albino Gonzales, has invoked his right…
FOR TOWING SERVICES MESS THREE senior officials of the city government are now in hot water in connection with the towing services rendered to the city by JLD Motorworks and Towing Service of Sta. Maria, San Jacinto, Pangasinan even as the supposed contract signed by Mayor Benjamin Lim remains missing….
LINGAYEN–Newly installed Pangasinan Police Director Senior Superintendent Isagani Nerez, who took over the command Thursday from Senior Superintendent Alan Purisima, has vowed to make the campaign against illegal drugs more intense and rigid in the province. Nerez also pledged to impose the law more strictly as he warned his men…
STA. BARBARA—Vowing to the clamor of local leaders and majority of the people to lead a principled politics of change and reform in his native town, retired Police Deputy Director General Reynaldo V. Velasco has formally announced his bid for mayor instead of his initial plan to run for Congress….
ALAMINOS CITY—This premier coastal city, home of the Hundred Islands, will be holding the biggest, grandest and most exciting festival in its history with the romantic Valentine’s Day mass wedding as the kick-off event and the formal launch scheduled on March 12-19 in honor of its patron, St. Joseph. Dubbed…
MJ’S PANGASINAN VISIT—Former Manila Congressman Mark Jimenez is applauded by officers and members of the ‘Biskeg na Pangasinan’ political party led by Undersecretary for Local Governance Antonio Villar Jr. as he raises a framed souvenir given by the group when he graced their general assembly meeting Thursday night at Inn…
THUMBS UP WITH JDV—Children flash thumbs up sign with Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. when he visited barangay Tebag in Mangaldan on February 18 to inaugurate their new barangay road built by the Department of Public Works and Highways from his Priority Development Assistance Fund. — Punchphoto by CSR
MOST WANTED MAN ARRESTED—Police Regional Director Leopoldo Bataoil (right) presents Ronnie Cosme, alias “Eng”, of San Carlos City, tagged as the most wanted person in the Ilocos region today with the price of P140,000 on his head for the slaying of Ronnie Liwanag, also of San Carlos City in 2002,…
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