DUMP THE LAZY AND THE CORRUPT — The appeal of Provincial Elections Officer Marino Salas on television for voters to use their right of suffrage this coming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections to elect the candidates who they think can institute change in their localities is both relevant as well as…
ANINAW AWARDS CITE The PUNCH – Editors and staff of The PUNCH bring home their 9 awards from the Phinma University of Pangasinan’s Association of Communication Students. Holding their trophies are (from left): Willie Lomibao (Best Photojournalist), Eva Visperas (Journalist of the Year-Female Category/Best News Writer/Best Feature Writer), Managing Editor Leonardo Micua…
OUT OF 20,401 SURRENDEREES SEVENTY-five percent (or 15,404) of the 20,401 drug personalities in Pangasinan who surrendered to the police since the war on drugs was launched by President Rodrigo Duterte in July 2016 have undergone and completed the community-based rehabilitation program (CBRP) in their towns/cities. This was indicated in…
LINGAYEN–Liga ng mga Barangay provincial chairman Jinky Zaplan admitted that only some barangay chairmen have submitted themselves for drug tests and submitted lists of drug personalities in their respective barangays. She made the admission even as she lauded the call of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to voters not…
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Pangasinan is now 85 percent ready for the conduct of simultaneous Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in 1,364 barangays all over the province on May 14 this year. Provincial Elections Supervisor Marino Salas said the elections will definitely push through after Congress failed to pass…
THE hospital director of the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan City has appealed to authorities to speed up the investigation and arrest suspects in the kidnapping of its two health workers in broad daylight last March 12 along A.B. Fernandez East this city. Dr. Roland Joseph Mejia told…
COME TO ME – The statue of Christ the Saviour atop the Pilgrimage Island at the Hundred Islands beckons to throng of visitors arriving at the island to pray and meditate in observance of the the Holy Week. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
BALUNGAO— This year’s thrill-seeking visitors at Balungao Hilltop Adventure are assured of more fun after new extreme activities were introduced on March 18 that will expectedly draw more tourists especially this summer. Mayor Philipp Peralta said skybike, rappelling and wall climbing are among the newest activities designed to attract and…
THREE vehicles parked inside the premises of the Roman Catholic Church on Avenida Street East in Poblacion Lingayen were gutted in a fire initially caused by one car 10:30 a.m. of March 19. Police investigation showed that the KIA van with plate no. UPL 707 owned by Rudy Torio, 74…
LAOAC—March 22 was a date that will be long remembered by ten students who were endorsed to the Laoac Police Station for loitering outside the school during school hours and another who was caught by the police while driving a motorcycle without a plate number and a driving license. The 10 were…
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