“THEY will all rot in jail.” This warning made jointly by Mayor Rody Duterte and Senator Alan Peter Cayetano early last week was reiterated to The PUNCH by the latter in an exclusive interview last Friday. The stern warning was issued earlier by the PDP-Laban party’s tandem for president and…
THIS IS THE CLEAN WAY — Former 5th District Rep. Mark Cojuangco, one of the special guests at the Sigay Festival in Binmaley shows organizers how to prepare a burning grill the environment-friendly way before he cooked his own share of bangus and tilapia. Other guests included Board Member Amado ‘Pogi’…
BASISTA — Finally, Jocelyn Perez will be proclaimed the new mayor of this town with barely five months left in the 2013 term occupied by then Mayor Manolito de Leon. The Commission on Elections (Comelec) issued a writ of execution for the Supreme Court’s decision affirming the annulment of the…
MORE ROAD-WIDENING PROJECTS LINGAYEN–More decades-old trees along the province’s roads and highways are expected to be cut and felled in the months ahead. This became a certainty after the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced it will continue to implement more highway widening projects in various parts of the province. Among…
WHITE POWDER INSIDE SEALED DRUM LINGAYEN—What was suspected to be a drum full of illegal drug substance found off the coastal water of Dasol town, proved to be negative, based on initial tests conducted by the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office’s crime laboratory. The provincial police, however, forwarded the sample of…
ALTHOUGH Region 1 has seaports and airports, there is no indication of any threat of Zika virus reaching the region but residents are advised to keep their surroundings clean to prevent breeding of mosquitoes in their surroundings. Dr. Myrna Cabotaje categorically told local newsmen during the KBP Forum, there is…
UNEXPECTED SENTIMENT CALASIAO–The residents of Barangay San Miguel in this town rejected the plan to make them vote on May 9 inside Robinson’s Place Calasiao, a cool and comfortable venue for the 12-hour voting. Ironically, this sentiment was conveyed during a public hearing conducted by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) on…
WITH CITY HALL’S HELP THE Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Dagupan City conducts regular siphoning and plants seedlings in their area in response to the recommendations made by the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) November last year. Atty. Kenneth Bid-ing, jail warden of BJMP Dagupan…
NO HELP FROM DEPED SISON—After the Department of Education has assured the country that enough classrooms have been constructed to accommodate enrollees particularly in Region 1, twenty-eight Grade six students of the Pindangan Elementary School here continue to wonder whether the Aquino administration even knows their school exists. Reason? The…
THE Court of Appeals (CA) has dismissed a civil case against the sale of a city-owned hotel here to AMB ALC Holdings and Management Corporation, Inc by annulling a Regional Trial Court’s resolution denying the motion to dismiss the complaint filed by Leo Angeles, a taxpayer. In a 10-page decision…
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