RAMPANT VOTE-BUYING. Many Pangasinenses are considered lucky because of the reported rampant vote-buying by politicians in many villages of Pangasinan, unchecked by the Comelec to this day. Vote-buying is already being done openly, in broad daylight in many places, including in one gasoline station in a town adjacent to Dagupan. That…
RISKS OF VIOLENCE THE presence of 33 criminal gangs and two private armies were among the risk factors considered by the higher office of the Philippine National Police (PNP) in placing Pangasinan as one of the nine provinces in the whole country under the election watch list. This was bared…
TO ensure that this year’s election will be peaceful, some 4,000 uniformed personnel from the police, military and force multipliers will be deployed in the province’s 44 towns and four cities. P/Supt. Ferdinand de Asis, spokesperson of the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO), told the KBP Forum here that 2,000…
USAPANG KAPAYAPAAN IF the four congressional candidates who attended the “Usapang Kapayapaan”, a forum for congressional candidates held on April 26, are successful in their bid, they will reject the passage of the Bangsamoro Basic Law and will support instead the establishment of a federalism type of government in the…
THE number of towns in Pangasinan placed under the election watch list is now down to 16 from the previous 20 last month, the Provincial Elections Office (PEO) reported. In the list are Bayambang, San Carlos City, Urbiztondo, Malasiqui, Bugallon, Infanta, Manaoag, Rosales, Urdaneta, Basista, Agno, Calasiao, Lingayen, Binmaley, Sison, Alaminos City…
AN official of Greenpeace Philippines slammed a pending proposal of former Fifth District Rep. Mark Cojuangco seeking the restoration and rehabilitation of the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) and eventually the “nuclearization” of the whole country. Mr. Cojuangco filed a bill seeking the revival of the BNPP plan of the Marcos regime…
THE Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan (ALD) through the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV), parishioners, police, Commission on Elections and some candidates joined hands to echo the CHAMP (clean honest, accurate, meaningful and peaceful) 2016 message through a unity walk in Dagupan yesterday. Before the unity walk for CHAMP 2016, a…
ROSALES – Three persons died while 12 others were hurt when the van they were riding turned turtle after it hit shoulder railings while traversing Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway in Barangay Palakipak here heading south last Thursday. Dead were Leo Salido, 30, Jane Lacerna, 20, and Rona Labor who were rushed…
3rd PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE EXCEPT for some supporters who fainted, preparations for the presidential debate that drew some 15,000 to University of Pangasinan-PHINMA on April 24 paid off, and the debate proceeded without any hitch. This was the happy assessment of P/Supt. Christopher Abrahano and said no candidate was delayed in arriving…
CAMPAIGN sorties can be hazardous to one’s health, and not necessarily due to the usual violence but from exhaustion and the heat from the sun. A re-electionist municipal councilor in Labrador died of heart attack due to fatigue from campaigning. In a belated report from the town police, Antonio “Tony”…
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