MODUS VIVENDI WITH CHINESE COAST GUARD BOLINAO— Sail close to the Chinese Coast guard ships, you get shooed away; stay away from them as you fish, you are left alone. This was how the fishermen who regularly fish at the disputed Scarborough/Panatag Shoal learned to co-exist with the Chinese Coast…
SAN CARLOS CITY– An incumbent barangay chairman in Bayambang town was arrested in a buy-bust operation conducted jointly by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and the San Carlos City Police at 11:30 a.m. on May 28 in Barangay San Juan here. Arrested was Gerald Carugay, 45, incumbent barangay chairman…
LINGAYEN—Team Pangasinan won third place in the Batang Pinoy (BP) – Luzon Leg held on March 16-23 in Ilagan City, Isabela, amassing 73 medals in its 2019 edition: 23 gold, 24 silver, and 26 bronze medals. Provincial Sports Development and Management Council (PSDMC) Executive Officer Modesto Operania attributed the impressive…
VICTORY PARADE – Dagupeños cheer on the young athletes and players of the Balon Dagupan Team that gave the city a back-to-back championship title of the Region 1 Athletic Association during the parade organized by City Mayor Belen Fernandez (left foreground) around the city’s main streets to honor them. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE Balon Dagupan team reinforced its athletic dominance in the region when it clinched a 16 gold, 13 silver and 11 bronze medals, placing eighth overall among more than 100 delegations that saw action in the Batang Pinoy Luzon Qualifying Leg, March 17 to 23. Dagupan’s swimmers remained the biggest…
LINGAYEN—Unemployment rate in Pangasinan has dropped from 6.8 percent in 2018 to 5.2 percent in January this year. According to Gov. Amado Espino III in his State of the Province Address (SOPA) on Thursday before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), the latest Labor Force Survey in the province conducted by the…
ONE good vote can change kahirapan, korapsyon, kabastusan, kasinungalingan and kamatayan or 5Ks that plague the Philippine government, according Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas during a forum on March 27 at the PHINMA (University of Pangasinan) in Dagupan City. Villegas, in his homily prior to the program, told the crowd, composed mostly of…
COMMISSION on Elections (Comelec) Commissioner Luie Tito Guia asked voters in Pangasinan to report vote-buying activities to the Comelec. Guia made the plea as he expressed dismay that Pangasinan is getting notorious for the rampant vote-buying in the province. He urged voters to report vote-buying to the police and warned…
LINGAYEN—The “Kalinisan Karaban” launched by the provincial government early this year is proving to be a boon to efforts to mitigate impact of climate change by collecting plastic wastes which are non-biodegradable and considered a bane to the ozone layer when burned and to sea mammals when they ingest these…
LINGAYEN—The Pangasinan Convention and Multi-Purpose Center (PCMPC), a priority infrastructure project of the provincial government, will soon rise in Bugallon town. Gov. Amado Espino III led the ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the center last week in a sprawling 18-hectare lot located in Barangay Umanday. The PCMPC will have,…
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