Political tricks and issues By Leonardo Micua EVEN before the City Elections Office could sort out things and the names of candidates, Socorro Barrozo Aquino, the woman who filed her certificate of candidacy for mayor as an independent candidate at about 2:00 p.m. on October 17, withdrew from the race…
EXAMS POSTPONED – Students of University of Luzon in Dagupan City leave their classrooms after being ordered to vacate the campus to allow the police to effectively respond to the bomb threat. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
PRANKSTERS TAGGED AS SUSPECTS THE police are investigating the series of bomb threats received by five campuses over a three-day period, October 24-26, and hold those behind those pranks responsible. P/Sr. Superintendent Wilson Lopez said the provincial police office has started coordinating with the Philippine National Police’s Anti-Cyber Crime Group…
GIVEN status of its continuing operations against drug suspects and the slow validation process, the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) has admitted it can no longer possibly meet its target to make Pangasinan drug-free by the end of the year. P/Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, PPPO spokesman told the KBP Forum on…
2019 ANNUAL BUDGET MAYOR Belen Fernandez has proposed for consideration by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) an annual budget of P1.01 billion for Dagupan City for Calendar Year 2019, making Dagupan as the first city in Region 1 to break into the one billion peso mark in annual budget and income. The proposal…
2019 ELECTIONS TRIVIA HERE is the current trivia about local politics in Pangasinan. There are 12 incumbent mayors who are banned from seeking a fourth term so they decided to to run for vice mayor instead. Unopposed in next year’s elections are re-electionist two mayors, two vice mayors and one…
NPC NEW TANDEM – Mark Lambino shows media a copy of his certificate of candidacy as substitute to Pat Orduña for vice governor while Alaminos City Mayor Arthur Celeste (right), the gubernatorial bet of the Nationalist People’s Coalition, smiles at the excitement around them. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
THE vice gubernatorial race took a new twist after retired police colonel Paterno Orduna withdrew his candidacy on Oct. 23. He was substituted by Mark Ronald Lambino, son of Secretary Raul Lambino, administrator and chief executive officer of the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority and concurrently the presidential adviser of Northern Luzon, on…
MALASIQUI—Families planning to go to the cemeteries on November 1 in the town are in for a treat from town’s police station. Policemen here will distribute free candles, provide free water, free calls and texts at the public cemeteries to families who will visit graves of their departed loved ones…
TOMB CLIMBERS – Two young men paid to give the tomb markers a fresh paint scale the wall of tombs at the Dagupan City Catholic Cemetery without any harness unmindful of their own safety. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
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