BAYAMBANG ELECTION SAN CARLOS CITY–Despite losing to their respective opponents by wide margins in the May 9 elections, Bayambang Mayor Ricardo Camacho and his wife Zenaida Camacho still filed election protest against their opponents. The Camacho couple, who ran for vice mayor and mayor, respectively, filed their election protest on May…
A JOB FOR MAYOR DUTERTE PAGING President–elect Mayor Rody Duterte! A flavored shabu found on a suspect arrested by the police in a drug buy-bust operation on Careenan Street in Dagupan City on May 18 is something for the books in the continuing campaign of lawmen against illegal drugs. Arrested in a follow-up operation by operatives of…
CANAO, NOT A SUMMERTIME DANCE — The chiefs of police from Cordillera assigned to the Pangasinan PNP don their bahag not because of the searing heat of summer but to perform a cañao in thanksgiving, for the peaceful conduct of the 2016 elections in the province. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FOR PEACEFUL POLLS LINGAYEN—For successfully achieving zero election-related violent incident (ERVI) on election day, May 9, the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office held a cañao, a ritual of thanksgiving. P/Sr. Supt. Edgar Alan Okubo, officer-in-charge police director and an Ibaloi, initiated the activity Monday, a first for the PPPO, during the…
EVANGELIZING THROUGH BASKETBALL MALASIQUI—A 60-year old priest, the most senior basketball player in the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese who combines playing basketball with evangelization, will be ordained bishop on May 24 at the St. John The Evangelist Cathedral here. In fact, Rev. Fr. Enrique Macaraeg, currently parish priest of Saint Ildefonso Parish…
COOLING OFF AT THE CAPITOL –Four young boys decide to take matters into their hands and took the water hose intended for the watering of the lawn in front of the Capitol Bldg. in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
IT’S all systems go for the Senior High School (SHS) program in Dagupan City but the construction of the required classrooms will not be completed in three months. However, Ma. Linda Ventinilla, chief of the School Governance Operations Division of the city schools division office, told KBP forum here on Thursday, that…
DISCOVERED USED MATERIALS THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) downplayed a report over the discovery of alleged election paraphernalia in one of the abandoned buildings in Alaminos City purporting to be an attempt to rig the last election. Provincial Elections Supervisor Joel Gines said there was nothing amiss with the discovery of used election paraphernalia, which…
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) has assured members of Elections Inspectors (BEIs) that their honoraria for the elections can be withdrawn at anytime from any branch of the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP). However, it advised BEI’s to withdraw their honoraria as an over-the-counter transaction instead of using the cash cards…
THE Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) has directed newly-elected and re-elected candidates to submit their statements of poll contributions and expenses to the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) by June 9. DILG City Director Rhoderick M. Dawis said the elected officials are required to submit their Statement of Contributions…
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