DATA ADVISORS POLL THE numbers say it all. Board Member Amado Espino III and incumbent Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. are poised to score double victories on May 9 amid charges and counter-charges of unprecedented vote-buying operations allegedly being undertaken for the past two weeks by the opposite camps throughout…
LINGAYEN— The lone representative of Alcala was crowned the Limgas na Pangasinan 2016. Candidate Karissa Anne Lopez impressed the judges with her beauty and wit during the final question-and-answer segment of the pageant held at the Capitol Plaza in the evening of April 30 that they decided she deserved to…
FOR BINGO FIVE candidates for councilors in Dagupan City, three with the Nacionalista Party (NP) and two independent, face possible disqualification in a complaint filed by a taxpayer before the City Elections Office. The 13-page complaint filed by Florence Claveria of Barangay Lasip Chico in the city charged incumbent Councilors Redford Christian Erfe Mejia…
LINGAYEN – Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas weighed in on the reported massive vote buying in Pangasinan, warning those who want to frustrate the will of the people that they cannot fool the public now. Villegas called on the candidates buying votes to stand on their platform and for what is right. The…
ANOTHER revamp in the composition of the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of the Dagupan City government is expected following the sudden resignation of City Administrator, Atty. Farah Decano, as chairman of the committee, after a 3-month stint. In a letter obtained by The PUNCH, the letter dated May 4,…
FORMER senator and presidential assistant for food security and agricultural modernization, Francis Pangilinan, earlier expressed support to the recent call for the creation of a Department of Fisheries. “We need to change the existing policy and the establishment of the Department of the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources is “a step…
GRID operator NGCP has assured that a contingency plan is in place to ensure a blackout-free May elections and the country’s power transmission network is geared up for the nationwide polls, particularly in Pangasinan. As early as February this year, the company has been in close coordination with the Department…
ROSALES—Outgoing Gov. Amado T. Espino Jr.’s support for the Liberal Party’s presidential aspirant is too late in the face of the surging lead of candidate Grace Poe. This was the assessment of Engr. Rosendo So, chairman of Samahan ng Industriyang Agrikultura, a multi-sectoral agricultural alliance of more than 30 groups…
CAPITOL NEWS 9TH BANCA PARADA CRUISES ALONG LIMAHONG CHANNEL. A large cluster of 123 artistically-fashioned small sea vessels dubbed Banca Parada cruises along the historic Limahong Channel of the Agno River during the Pistay Dayat celebration on May 1. The fluvial parade started at the staging area in sitio Bantayan,…
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS DAGUPAN’S YOUNG ARCHER –- John Carlos Philippe M. Garcia of Oakridge International School is the youngest of the potential young athletes in archery who underwent training at the Dagupan City National High School on May 2. The training was part of the city’s summer sports clinic for children undertaken…
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