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)
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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…
Bomb scare rocks school campuses
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…
Pangasinan as drug-free by year-end seen unlikely
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…
MBTF sets P1.01-B for Dagupan
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…
12 “graduating” mayors seek VM posts; 5 unopposed bets
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)
NPC NEW TANDEM
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…
Lambino’s son is Celeste’s new runningmate
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…
Malasiqui cops reach out to residents on Nov 1
UNLIKE in previous elections where there were unopposed aspirants and re-electionists, all electoral posts in the provincial level are being contested without exemption. The records of Commission on Elections provincial office in Dagupan City show: Re-electionist Gov. Amado Espino III is being challenged by Alaminos City Mayor Arthur Celeste. Espino’s vice-governor…
No one running unopposed in provincial race
POLITICAL DANCE – Members of the Balon Dagupan Team led by Mayor Belen Fernandez dance with supporters on their way to the Comelec office to file their certificates of candidacy. (Punchphoto by Jojo Riñoza)
