UNDER STATE OF CALAMITY THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) could not have approved the resolution proposed by City Mayor Belen Fernandez placing Dagupan under the state of calamity more dramatically when it held its regular session in its cramped ante room during the blackout. Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo proposed the resolution…
THE SHADE IS GONE –A worker rushes to clear the road along Maramba Blvd. in Lingayen of uprooted decade-old trees toppled by Typhoon Land’s strong wind. (PUNCHphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
THE Department of Agriculture (DA) in Region 1 recorded about P278-million partial damages to various crops due to devastation brought by Typhoon Lando. DA Regional Director Valentino Perdido, however, told local media Thursday here that the damages might reach up to P500-million as reporting from various affected areas continues to…
12 DEATHS LINGAYEN—Pangasinan Health Office (PHO) already recorded 3,200 dengue cases, 60% higher than last year’s data for the same comparative period, and 12 deaths due to dengue, also higher than last year’s six deaths. Most of the victims were males, aged one to 19 years old. The death cases…
UNOPPOSED IN 2016 POLLS ONE congressman, seven mayors, four vice mayors and eight councilors in Pangasinan are running unopposed in the 2016 elections. Unopposed are Second District re-electionist Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil (LP), Sto. Tomas Mayor Timoteo “Dick” Villar III, Laoac Mayor Silverio Alarcio Jr, San Manuel Mayor Alain Jerico Perez, Sta….
Mayor Belen Fernandez presents city council’s resolution honoring Duarte Mayor Tzeitel Paras-Caracci, a Dagupeña. UNKNOWN to many, the first and the only Filipino-American elected mayor in Duarte, in Los Angeles county, California, USA is a Dagupeña, and she came home with her family after 34 long years to be reunited to…
TEAM PARTIDO na PANGASINAN — The leaders of the newly organized Partido na Pangasinan led by Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. (right) with his son Liga ng mga Barangay President and Board Member Amado “Pogi” Espino III (2nd from right), Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Z. Calimlim, Jr. (3rd from right)…
2016 PROVINCIAL ELECTION IT’S official! It’s a son and father vs. husband and wife for the gubernatorial and fifth district congressional races in Pangasinan: the Espinos versus the Cojuangcos in the 2016 elections. But it will still be a four-cornered fight for both the gubernatorial and vice gubernatorial races for…
A RETURN BOUT IT is still Fernandez-Fernandez versus Lim-Lim in Dagupan, a virtual revival of the political and commercial contest between the owners of CSI and Magic. This after Celia Lim, wife of former mayor Benjamin Lim, filed her certificate of candidacy for mayor in tandem with her son Vice Mayor Brian…
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