FOR CREDIBLE ELECTIONS A GROUP of law students in Dagupan City has organized themselves as the local chapter of Legal Network for Truthful Elections (LENTE) to make a difference and help make the 2016 local elections credible. The city chapter began making its presence felt by conducting voters’ education in…
FOUR days before the third and last PiliPinas Presidential Debate, different fisherfolk leaders in the country gathered in front of the University of Pangasinan-PHINMA (UPang) to remind the five presidential candidates of the issues of the fishery industry. Fisherfolk talk to the media. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) The fisherfolk on…
THE Dagupan Doctors Villaflor Memorial Hospital (DDVMH) on April 19, 2016 inaugurated its state-of-the-art Operating Room Complex with former Health Secretary Enrique T. Ona and Mayor Belen T. Fernandez as guests of honor. The expansion of the O.R. Complex, with six functionally independent O.R. Suites, optimizes the delivery of all…
CAPITOL NEWS This year’s Pista’y Dayat celebration unpacks with three events this Friday, April 22. Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr., Vice Gov. Jose Ferdinand Z. Calimlim, Jr. and Board Member and Liga ng Mga Barangay Provincial Pres. Amado “Pogi” I. Espino III led the opening of the two-week sea festival…
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS BANGUS NORIMAKI (SUSHI ROLLS) – Mayor Belen T. Fernandez tries one of the bangus norimaki or sushi rolls prepared by Nippon Skilled Volunteers Association (NISVA) of Japan during the Bangusine Showcase at the city plaza on April 21, a feature of the 2016 Bangus Festival. (Photo by Mitz Cresencio)
CAPITOL NEWS From barely neglected public health care facilities eight years ago, the 14 hospitals owned and managed by the provincial government are now at par with first-class private hospitals in the province. This is how Dr. Policarpio Manuel, Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) chief, assessed the status of the facilities…
COJUANGCO UPDATES IT was supposed to be a showdown of ideas and platforms between two strong gubernatorial candidates. But in the scheduled debate over Bombo Radyo Dagupan on April 16, Amado Espino III was a no-show, that left only Mark Cojuangco answering questions from panelists. In that no-contest debate that…
3rd successful streak in campaign trail STA. BARBARA—In his recent rally held last April 17 at the Sta. Barbara Public Plaza, congressional candidate Atty. Eric Peralta Acuña declared an all-out- war against hunger and poverty as he pledged his support for the farmers in the Third District of Pangasinan. He…
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