Gallant Galedo By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. LEARNING a big lesson from a disastrous finish during the 2014 Ronda Pilipinas International two months ago, the two-time Tour champion Mark Galedo poured all he got in the fourth and final day of the just concluded 2014 Le Tour de Filipinas to…
“Galila ed Pangasinan!” By Johanne Margarette R. Macob SUMMER season is more than a time for swimming escapades, at least in our beloved Pangasinan. In this land of salt, the summer months, particularly April and May, are quite synonymous to beauty, bounty, and unity. In the capital town alone, one…
P105-M UNLIQUIDATED FUND “NOT in my administration.” This was stressed by Mayor Belen Fernandez following a report in a national daily on the P105 million worth of unliquidated funds released by the city government under the previous leadership to non-government organizations (NGO).
2014 GILON-GILON’S BEST—The street dancers of Barangay Pantal performing their unique bangus harvest dance went on to harvest the this year’s plum prize as the best in Gilon-Gilon Ed Baley Street Dancing competition held last week.–(Photo by Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
GILON GILON ED BALEY THIS year’s Bangus Festival formally opened on April 22 with the Gilon- Gilon ed Baley street dancing competition, featuring dances that simulate the harvesting of bangus. Twenty-two contingents from the 31 barangays of this city marched and performed through the city streets from Perez Boulevard to…
CHAMPS NO MORE—The contingent of Barangay Lucao performs its best in the streets of Dagupan during the Gilon-Gilon ed Baley streetdancing competition but failed to win a ninth straight title, landing only as first runner up to this year’s champion Barangay Lucao. (PUNCHphoto by Wille Lomibao) Back to Homepage
COA’S QUINTO REPORT Based on the Audit Report of City Auditor Virgilio Quinto, private and unauthorized vehicles with no listed plate numbers obtained free fuel under the city’s account in gasoline stations contracted by the Lim administration. The report showed there were 493 times in 2012 that gasoline and fuel…
HOLY WEEK LINGAYEN—No drowning incidents were reported in the province’s beaches during the April 17-20 Holy Week, a peak season for beachgoers. “We met our target of zero drowning incident,” said Fernando De Guzman, officer-in-charge at the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDDRMC).
FOR 2016 ELECTIONS AT least 200,000 registered voters or 18 percent of the 1.7 million total voting population in Pangasinan have yet to complete their biometrics data. Atty. Marino Salas, Commission on Elections (Comelec) provincial supervisor, warned that if the voters do not validate their biometrics, their names will be…
LINGAYEN–This year’s Pista’y Dayat (sea festival) is packed with various sports activities, with both fun games and serious competitions open to everyone. Modesto Operania, the provincial government’s sports coordinator, said apart from the usual sports activities conducted in previous years, new games have been added such as parasailing and banana…
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