We are needed By Johanne R. Macob I JUST came home from covering the inaugural of our new set of provincial leaders. The new president and vice president of the Republic also just finished taking their respective oaths. Somehow, it’s a relief knowing that the tension during the campaign…
INDECENT RESURRECTION. Is LIFE (Lim-Fernandez) team rising from the grave so soon? This question cropped up after Vice Mayor Brian Lim announced last June 28 that he’s teaming up with now former Councilor Alfie Fernandez in 2019 in a bid to wrest city hall from Mayor Belen Fernandez. Just a…
OUT OF FEAR FOR THEIR LIVES ELEVEN confessed drug users, runners from Barangay Pantal, two of whom are women, surrendered to Mayor Belen T. Fernandez on the day she signed Executive Order No. 20 creating ‘Task Force Disiplina’ on July 1 in support of President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s campaign vs….
INCLUSION IN DRUG WATCHLIST STAYS THE mere signing of a pledge to forgo their drug habits cannot be taken as an act of surrender. This was the reaction of P/Supt. Christopher Abrahano, chief of Dagupan City Police Station (DCPS) to the reported ‘surrender’ of some 500 persons to Bonuan Gueset Chairman…
PROCLAMATION NO. 1302 FINALLY, the Dagupan City government is ready to close the 50 year old dumpsite in compliance with Republic Act No. 9003, or the “Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000”. Mayor Belen T. Fernandez announced in her inaugural address that Proclamation No. 1302, series of 2016, amending…
IT’S YOUR TURN — Outgoing Governor Amado Espino Jr. (right) presents to incoming Governor Amado Espino III the seal of the province in a symbolic turnover of power and responsibility after the latter took his oath of office at the Sison Auditorium in Lingayen last June 30, 2016. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
TO SUPPORT DUTERTE’S PLAN LINGAYEN— His predecessor was not fortunate to have a permanent provincial police director to work with, so the new governor, Gov. Amado ‘Pogi’ Espino III is hoping that Pangasinan will finally have one during his term in order to be effective in accomplishing orders of the…
FOR REAL CHANGES LAST Thursday, the country waited with bated breath for the first official pronouncements of Davao Mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte as President. People wanted to know what he intended to do for them, and for the nation, and they heard it. They liked what they heard. But since…
THE Calasiao Police Station has taken steps to strictly enforce the town’s ordinance imposing curfew hours for minors in the municipality. According to SPO4 Rolando Manzon, Municipal Executive Senior Police Officer, the station has began enforcing the ordinance by disseminating the information to the barangays initially. PO3 Leo Jutie said representatives…
LINGAYEN— Before he stepped down as governor to give way to the new governor, his son Amado ‘Pogi’ Espino III, now Fifth District Rep. Amado T. Espino Jr. reiterated his trust and confidence in the capabilities of his son, to perform his duties and responsibilities well and effectively as the…
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