TO BARANGAY BRASS IN NARCO-LIST SURRENDER and undergo rehabilitation if necessary, Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque has exhorted barangay officials whose names are in the so-called “narco list” released by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). Roque, who was in Dagupan City on April 30 for the Kalutan ed Dalan (street…
ELECTION WATCH LIST AREAS SIX barangays in Pangasinan have been included in the Election Watch List Areas in Pangasinan for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections due to “intense political rivalries”. This was revealed by Provincial Elections Supervisor Marino Salas who said the joint monitoring teams by the Commission on Elections,…
THE municipality of Calasiao has been officially cleared of illegal drugs by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Regional Office 1. P/Superintendent Charlie Umayam, Calasiao police chief, said all the 24 barangays have been cleared earlier of illegal drugs, while the 414 drug surrenderers have completed the community-based rehabilitation program…
FULFILLING KABALEYANS’ DREAM MALASIQUI—Third District Rep. Rose Marie “Baby” Arenas and her daughter, Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) Chair Rachel Arenas, made dreams come true for thousands of their ‘kabaleyans’ by bringing to the local stage Coco Martin, king of Philippine primetime television, on April 29 in…
AMPLE COMMERCIAL RICE AVAILABLE THERE are no rice stocks in the warehouses of the National Food Authority (NFA) in Western Pangasinan and the markets, according to Lita Catabay, the cereal agency’s senior enforcement and investigation officer for Western Pangasinan. Speaking at a KBP Forum on May 3, Catabay said her office…
BOODLE SA DULANG — Gov. Amado Espino III, flanked by Mrs. Espino and Vice Gov. Jose Ferdinand Calimlim, takes their share of the seafood laid out on the dulang while Limgas beauties take small bites of seafoods. “Dulang” is a Pangasinan word for “hapag-kainan” or dining table. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FORMER Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. has called for the expansion of Dagupan’s Bangus Festival into a “South China Sea Festival” that will also have China and Vietnam as active participants. Speaking to newsmen on the sidelines of the Dagupan Street Party or “Kalutan ed Dalan”, De Venecia said if…
A REVIVAL of happy childhood play is what’s good for today’s gadget-conscious generation of young children. This is the goal of a resolution passed by the Dagupan City council requesting the Department of Education (DepEd) to include the playing of various traditional Filipino games in the Physical Education (PE) classes of kindergarten and elementary…
THE provincial office of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) is in a quandary about two different lists of incumbent barangay officials alleged to be involved in the illegal drug trade: one from the provincial office of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the other from the…
DAGUPAN City councilors are one in asking the administration of Mayor Belen Fernandez to call for a summit on traffic management in the city to address emerging traffic problems in many parts of the city. The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) last week passed a resolution requesting Fernandez to call an “urgent…
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