REDISTRICTING LINGAYEN—The plan to redistrict the province from six to eight or ten legislative districts apparently has not caught fire among the present crop of legislators and this led a provincial board member to hurl a challenge to the men and women in congress. “The ball is now in your…
LET’S go back to work! This was the terse response of Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. to local media’s queries about his next political agenda further explaining further his reasons for giving his blessings to his son Board Member Amado III also known as Pogi, to bid for the gubernatorial…
ROAD HAZARDS: DEAD TREES LINGAYEN—Portions of the highway along the Manila North Road (Rosales-Sison stretch) have been widened but there still remains one thing that needs to be done but can’t just easily be done – to remove all hazards to motorists According to District Engineer Emmanuel Diaz, he had…
URBIZTONDO–Being an employee of the secretary of justice must have its privileges. This appeared to be the case of Ronnie Dayan, reportedly a driver-bodyguard of DOJ Sec. Leila de Lima, who has not been charged after allegedly punching a policeman and threatening to kill a village watchman in Barangay Dalanguiring…
DEADLY RECKLESS IMPRUDENCE—-The lifeless bodies of the two motorcycle riders lay on the ground covered with a sheet while the police assess the other damages caused by the 10-wheeler dump truck that plowed into a house, after it collided with a delivery truck along the highway in Binmaley. The two…
BINMALEY— The collision of two trucks here early morning last Thursday was clearly a case of reckless imprudence on the part of drivers that resulted in the death of three persons and serious injuries to two others. Cases of reckless imprudence resulting in homicide, serious physical injuries and damage to…
CIVIL CASES VS HELMET ORDINANCE THE helmet ordinance recently passed by the Dagupan sanggunian finds itself mired in yet another legal question, this time before the court. A former judge opposed not only one provision of the ‘ordinance but the ordinance itself. Atty. Victor Llamas Jr., a resident of barangay…
IT has been a full week of political posturing among and between the province’s top political leaders. After Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr., announced his son’s bid to succeed him, he, his brother, Bautista Mayor Amadeo T. Espino; and two sons, Bugallon Mayor Jumel Anthony I. Espino and Board Member…
FORMER Pangasinan Fifth District Congressman Mark Cojuangco said he could not believe that a simple announcement of candidacy would cause Gov. Amado Espino Jr. so much aggravation. Cojuangco was reacting to a press statement issued by Espino, who resigned from the Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), together with his sons Bugallon…
LINGAYEN—It didn’t take long for eight members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) to declare their support for the announced gubernatorial bid of their colleague, Board Member Amado ‘Pogi’ Espino III, in the May 2016 elections after his father, Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. announced it. On Monday (August 4) Sixth…
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