I’m for Pacquiao By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. BY the time you read this piece, the national polls might still be in progress or perhaps already over. We all have our own choices of candidates for the lowest position in government (municipal councilor) to the highest level (president). That’s the…
Save our aquaculture industry By Johanne R. Macob THE ten-day celebration of the Pista’y Dayat (sea festival) in our beloved Pangasinan culminated a few days ago. The celebration, showcasing the natives’ talents and skills, hailed the bounty and beauty of the seas. Ironically, while the goodness of the seas…
PEACE MAN! We saw the worst campaign so far for the May 9, 2016 elections. In media alone, attacks against the practitioners were so vicious, too personal. It was no longer candidates versus candidates but media versus media. Even among kumpadres and kumadres, no one was spared, relationships forgotten, long-time…
2016 LIMGAS NA PANGASINAN— The year’s most beautiful ladies of Pangasinan stand together to commit themselves to promote the province’s tourism attractions and natural resources shortly after they were announced winners in this year’s search for Limgas na Pangasinan. The outstanding beauties are (from left) Christine Joy F. Picardal (Sison), 3rd…
FROM COMELEC WEBSITE HACKING? THE stolen data of voters from the Commission on Elections’ hacked website are suspected already being used in the large-scale vote buying in Pangasinan. This suspicion was bolstered by the evidence gathered for the rampant vote-buying included a card board stub containing the voter’s data base,…
I GOT MINE, TOO — Gov. Amado Espino Jr. is joined by other voters in showing to the local media who also received their stubs that contain their voter’s data and a quick response (QR) code reportedly intended as a claim stub for cash in a pre-designated location, during a…
HIGH TECH PROCESSING LINGAYEN–Gov. Amado Espino Jr. denounced what he calls massive vote-buying all over Pangasinan perpetrated by his opponents using modern technology whom he accused of bastardizing legal processes instituted by the election laws and the Commission on Elections (Comelec). In a press conference at the Urduja House on…
“IT’S THEM, NOT US!” SISON—Two days before the election, the Espinos and the Cojuangcos traded barbs on massive vote-buying in the province. Gov. Amado Espino Jr accused his rival, re-electionist Rep. Kimi Cojuangco who is seeking her third term, of massive vote –buying, with her husband, former Rep. Mark Cojuangco,…
IT GOES LIKE THIS — A voter is directed how to insert a test ballot into the VCM during the final testing and sealing of the VCM at the Lingayen 1 Central School in Lingayen, supervised by Municipal Election Officer Michael Franks Sarmiento. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) Pangasinan is 100 percent ready for the conduct of May 9 polls in more than 1,000 polling precincts in the province, the provincial election supervisor assured. Lawyer Joel Gines said the more than 6,000 Board of Election Inspectors, support staff and monitoring workforce, including the…
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