2016 GUBERNATORIAL RACE LINGAYEN—It’s still more than two years away before the next election, but former Congressman Mark Cojuangco has unabashedly announced that he wants to succeed Governor Amado Espino Jr. when he steps down at the end of third and final term in 2016.
LOCAL FUN WITH PAKWAN—Tourist Julian Lauber from Germany joins the pakwan (watermelon) eating contest during the 1st Pakwan Festival in Bani, Pangasinan on February 8 while his companion captures the fun moment on camera. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
DAGUPAN CITY – There is no truth to the earlier reports that Dagupan is among the most vulnerable cities in the country today. This was the assessment of Dr. Maria Leonila P. Bautista, associate scientist of the Philippine Volcanology and Seismology of the Department of Science and Technology (Phivolcs-DOST) who…
LINGAYEN—In addition to Dagupan, the demand for transparency and accountability in the handling of public funds for festivals is also being pressed in Lingayen. More than a month after the joint Lingayen Town Fiesta and Bagoong Festival was held, the committee that handled the activity has yet to liquidate the…
LOVE OF ALL AGES—Virgilio, 60 and Tita Banogon, 58, one of the oldest of the almost 200 couples who joined the mass beach wedding at the Hundred Islands National Park on February 14, 2014 seal their marriage with a rather bashful kiss. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
185 COUPLES SAY “I DO” ALAMINOS CITY—Love filled the air at the Hundred Islands National Park here on Valentine’s Day with almost 200 couples exchaning “I do’s” in a mass wedding sponsored by the city government and the Pag-IBIG Home Mutual Development Fund.
PICTURESQUE 100 ISLANDS—It was like a scene from an international movie release about islanders who decided to get married in a most romantic setting. The first–ever mass beach wedding at the first-proclaimed national park, Hundred Islands National Park in Alaminos City on this year’s Valentine’s Day arranged by Mayor…
“I deny the allegation”. This was the opening statement of City Market Administrator Aguedo Sta. Maria before the Blue Ribbon Committee of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) that is investigating in aid of legislation an open-letter complaint of Punch Editor Publisher Ermin Garcia Jr. in his column in September last year.
IF the Dagupan District Jail by the beach were a resort beach hotel, it can be said its capacity is overbooked by 206%! Such is the state of the district jail that houses 459 inmates built for only 150. This was conveyed by Chief Inspector Jun Melchor Boadilla, jail warden…
CALLING on Pangasinenses who want to be counted among the Philippine’s registered organ donors. The Philippines is gunning for the Guinness Book of World Records for the category of having the most people to sign up as organ donor.
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