DEFECTION—Bonuan Gueset Barangay Kapitan Rico Mejia (second from right) affirms his support by raising the hands of former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia, Councilor Maybelyn Fernandez and Solo de Venecia shortly after he announced his formal withdrawal of support from Mayor…
KAPITANS’ DEFECTION BEGINS THE Gina-Belen-Michael team now claims an almost irreversible lead over Lim-Lim-Lim ticket with the sudden defection on Friday of Barangay Chairman Rico Mejia of Bonuan Gueset to their side with only three days to go before the election.
ALL is set in Pangasinan for the mid-term automated polls on May 13 with election workers, security forces, and the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines in place around the province’s 44 towns and four cities.
GUBERNATORIAL candidate Hernani Braganza of the Liberal Party has brushed off the results of a survey released two weeks before the elections indicating that his lone rival, re-electionist Gov. Amada Espino Jr. has an insurmountable lead over him.
URBIZTONDO—Who said it can’t be done, or that nobody will dare do it? For the first time in Pangasinan, and perhaps in the country, a citizen’s arrest was effected against two men from this town who were suspected of violating the election law.
NO TO VOTE-BUYING—Youth volunteers of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) raise placards condemning vote-buying during the Lakad Pangasinan organized by PPCRV last May 4. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas led the march. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
LET’S celebrate a Sunday Mass in every barangay. This was the call made by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas to priests in the archdiocese in a pastoral directive dated May 7.
IT’S not just the liquor companies and sellers, but also the police, who are glad about the temporary restraining order (TRO) issued by the Supreme Court (SC) on the five-day liquor ban in relation to the May 13 election. Senior Inspector Ryan Manongdo, spokesperson of the Pangasinan police provincial office…
A GRENADE was found in front of the house of Urdaneta Mayor Amadeo Gregorio “Bobom” Perez IV, a day after his birthday and two days after he hosted a luncheon for President Benigno Aquino III who was in town for the election campaign.
LINGAYEN—Is 20-year old Richard Ortega ironically being held against his will over a kidnapping charge he filed? Ortega earlier filed a complaint against re-electionist 2nd District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil for alleged illegal detention tantamount to kidnapping after he was allegedly questioned by a group of men, including Bataoil, for taking…
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