OUR TEAM AGuiLa READY FOR 2025 – Gov. Ramon Guico III, hosts the press conference at the Urduja House to belie rumors that the team has been dissolved. Shown shortly before the press conference are 5th District Rep. Ramon Guico Jr. . former Bayambang Mayor Cesar Quiambao, 1st District Rep. Art Celeste, 2nd District…
AGuiLa, a coalition of influential political leaders in Pangasinan that played a crucial role in the 2022 election victories of the province’s governor, vice governor and other officials, remains united and are preparing for an even stronger campaign in next year’s midterm elections. This was underscored during a press conference…
AGuiLa reconfirms united front for 2025 elections
DAGUPAN Mayor Belen Fernandez put her foot down on the ordinance enacted by the seven majority councilors for the establishment of Primary Health Centers or Clinics within the premises of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP), a national agency, with an annual allocation of P450,000 from the local budget….
Belen rejects more funds for BJMP
MAYOR Belen Fernandez vetoed the Dagupan City’s Sangguniang Panlungsod’s approved ordinance providing an additional P3,000 honorarium to each member of the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) per the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) guidelines. Ordinance No. 2287-2024 authored and passed by the seven majority councilors, and without any amendment nor objection…
Additional allowance for SK violates law
AN official of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority died in a vehicular accident involving his convoy of two motorcycles and two SUVs along the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX) in Barangay Panaga, Laoac on August 20. Fatality was Ernie Tablega, an officer of the MMDA assigned with the Presidential Security Group,…
Rider with PSG convoy dies in vehicular accident on TPLEX
PANGASINENSES should be alarmed by the Department of Health’s declaration that the province tops with the most number of dengue cases in the region: 2,816 infections out of the 3,000! Another initial indication was the inclination of the Lingayen local government to declare a state of emergency due to the…
Focus on dengue in children
By Ermin Garcia Jr. HERE’S another hard and humiliating experience for the arrogant 7 epaLifes. All the ordinances that Councilors Redford Erfe-Mejia, Alfie Fernandez, Celia Chua-Lim, Alvin Coquia, Librada Reyna-Macalanda, Marilou Fernandez and Irene Lim-Acosta had to be vetoed by Mayor Belen mainly for their gross ignorance of the…
7 epaLifes expose more of themselves
Heatwaves’ Michael Mabulac drills a game-winning jumper to seal the game. (Photo grab from Facebook) THE Pangasinan Heatwaves pulled off a stunner when they outclassed the Zamboanga Master Sardines in a heart-pounding ball game, 75-74 last August 17 at the Calasiao Sports Complex. Pangasinan had a rough shooting start in the nightcap, only…
Pangasinan shocks Zamboanga, 75-74 in MPBL
COMBINED police and anti-narcotics units arrested a high-value individual and seized approximately 70 grams of shabu, in a buy-bust operation conducted on August 18 at around midnight on Mitura Bridge in Urdaneta City. The suspect, Alfie Albarillo, 30, a barbecue vendor and resident of Barangay Mabalanias, Angeles City, Pampanga,…
Shabu worth almost P.5-M seized in Urdaneta buy-bust
THE provincial board strongly condemned the August 17 shooting of Efren Dela Cruz, the Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) chairman of Barangay Salomague Norte in Bugallon, who survived the attack by an apparent stranger who was suspiciously lurking in his community. Board Member Joyce Fernandez, the provincial SK Federation president, sponsored…