CAPITOL NEWS “MAGTATRABAHO ako para sa inyo bilang inyong gobernador. Trabaho ko ang bantayan kayo at siguraduhing ligtas ang buong lalawigan ng Pangasinan.” This was stated by Governor Amado I. Espino III as he led the team of the Provincial Government in staging the Abig Pangasinan Karaban in Barangay San…
CAPITOL NEWS COUNTRY’S BEST LGU ADVOCATE FOR STATISTICS. Governor Amado I. Espino III (center) and Provincial Planning and Development Coordinator Benita Pizarro (left) receives the national award from Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) as the Best Local Government Unit Advocate for Statistics and 31st National Statistics Month Best Province Implementer in…
JOINT anti-drug operatives dismantled a drug den in Barangay Patayac in Sta Barbara town, after a buy-bust operation, that led to the arrest of nine persons late Thursday night, August 12. Retchie Camacho, newly-installed Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Provincial Officer, said the suspect, Glenn Lomibao Tamondong, 37, was the…
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Pangasinan declared 10 more barangays in the province as drug-cleared on Sunday, August 9. Rechie Camacho, newly-installed PDEA Pangasinan provincial officer, said the 10 barangays are all located in Sual town: Baybay Norte, Bolaoen, Camagsingalan, Capantolan, Macaycayawan, Paitan West, Pangascasan, Sto Domingo, Seselangen,…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! August 15 – (Dagupan City) Lailanie de Guzman August 19 – (Lingayen) Arthuro Sebastian August 20 – (Dagupan City) Michaela Fernandez August 21 – (Dagupan City) Mario Lavarias Happy Birthday! PAUL DE VERA (August 17 – Dagupan City) Happy Birthday! SUSAN GARCIA & PEEWEE GARCIA (August 17 &…
Photos and story by Art G. Valenzuela THE year was 1982 when I received a call from my friend, the Regional Director of the Ministry of Agriculture for Region 1, Manuel “Maning” Varquez. He asked me if I could come and visit him for official business at his regional office…
THE discovery of the COVID-Beta variant in Mangaldan should serve as a wake-up call to provincial and local governments in Pangasinan. Our local governments must review and correct their established priorities in their campaign to flatten the curve. The discovery of the Beta variant, already considered a “concern” of the…
By Ermin Garcia Jr. AT the rate the country is going and managing the COVID-19 pandemic, people are obviously beginning to take the pandemic as merely a problematic numbers issue. Except for media’s sources of news updates, there are no human faces attached to the problem. This explains in…
By Al S. Mendoza THE first gold medal in Olympics history. Delivered by Hidilyn Diaz, the weightlifting wonder from Zamboanga City, the priciest metal in sports ended a 97-year gold drought for the Philippines in the quadrennial Games. I wrote this one day before Carlo Paalam was to gun…
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