ADVICE TO NEW BARANGAY, SK BRASS STA. BARBARA—Gov. Amado Espino III has called on newly elected and reelected barangay officials in Pangasinan to “be true to their mandate” by serving the people the best way they can as they had promised their constituents. Speaking to newsmen after the turnover of…

FOR ELECTION SERVICES RENDERED AFTER providing vital services to the nation by serving as Board of Election Tellers (BET), Board of Election Inspectors and Canvassers, tired teachers were disappointed to learn that they will again have to wait for government to pay them what’s due them in honoraria. The teachers…

THE drug-clearing operations of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO), which was suspended recently to give way to the May 14 barangay and sangguniang kabataan elections, will resume this week. P/ Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, police community relations officer, said so far, 25 towns and…

LINGAYEN—Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said part of democracy is to watch over elected public officials for 365 days a year. Villegas, who voted in West Central Elementary School, Dagupan City, told local newsmen that he made an appeal for people to vote carrying with them their Christian faith. He said…

PNP MAINTAINING CLOSE WATCH LINGAYEN—AS of May 8, five barangays in Pangasinan were confirmed to have been placed under Category 1 of election watch list but this could increase to seven and even more if the shooting incidents that killed an incumbent councilman (kagawad) of Urdaneta City and a former…

WATCH out for the list of candidates for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections who took drug tests to prove they are clean. The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO) has given the go-signal to police stations to post the list of candidates in their towns or cities, and barangays who…

IN DAGUPAN CITY ONE candidate for barangay chairman and two for sangguniang kabataan chairman in Dagupan City are running unopposed in the Barangay and SK elections on May 14, according to the complete list of candidates released by the office of City Elections Officer Ericson Oganiza. The unopposed candidate for…

LINGAYEN—It’s official.  The Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPO) has verified that 296 persons involved in illegal drugs have filed their certificates of candidacies for various posts in the May 14 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections in the province. These include 121 incumbent barangay officials (29 barangay chairmen and 92 kagawads) seeking reelection, while…