ELECTORAL OFFENSE DAGUPAN Mayor Benjamin S. Lim and members of the Nacionalista Party ticket are facing possible disqualification and imprisonment if the Commission on Elections (Comelec) determines that the “Bingo Bonanza” they are organizing prior to their mini rallies in the city’s barangays are deemed violations of the campaign and…
AFTER declining to endorse any local candidate, not even revealing his personal choices, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas issued a 10-point guideline that could help voters in deciding whom to vote for in the May 13 elections. Archbishop Soc issued a pastoral letter read last April 14 in masses in all churches within…
SOME 300 deans, alumni and students of Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU) signed a petition en masse asking the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkasters sa Pilipinas (KBP) to sanction five Dagupan-based broadcasters for “maliciously reading and commenting” in their respective programs an unverified and unsigned letter alleging irregularities in the school. The group…
APRIL 30 will be a special non-working holiday in Dagupan as the city celebrates the main event for the two-week long Bangus Festival. The declaration was issued last April 11 by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. by authority of President Benigno S. Aquino III through Proclamation No. 570 upon the…
LINGAYEN—Members of the provincial board and 30 of the 44 municipal mayors are seeking for the “recall or revocation of appointment” of Senior Supt. Marlou Chan as officer-in-charge police director of the province due to the unsolved killings in the province and his alleged political biases. In a petition, the…
NOT ME—Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil holds a copy of the Supreme Court decision denying with finality the motion for reconsideration filed by his opponent in the 2010 election, Kim Lokin, regarding a case she filed against him before the House Electoral Tribunal during a press conference Friday. In the…
LINGAYEN—A case of grave threats, kidnapping, and of the election code have been filed against re-electionist 2ndDistrict Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil, his brother, Councilor Ramon Bataoil, who is also running for re-election, and four John Does at the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office Friday afternoon. The complainant is a supporter of congressional candidate…
BESIDES REFUSING TO REMIT PROCEEDS CITY Hall is bannering that all is set for the 2013 Bangus Festival but funds spent for the past two years are still unaccounted for. The Dagupan City Accounting Office has admitted to The PUNCH that while there were financial reports submitted by past Bangus…
THIS year’s Bangus Festival is set to start April 22 with the Bangus ed Karosa parade to be participated in by 13 contingents with decorated floats. It will be followed by the 101 Ways to Cook Seafoods on April 23 at the People’s Astrodome where professional chefs and skillful students will…
2013 ASNA AWARDEES—Governor Amado Espino Jr. (1st, right) joins this year’s ASNA awardees (from left) Arnold Arquillano son of Dr. Josephine Paed-Arquillano (Fisheries Education), Romeo Castillo-Mananquil (Visual Arts), Antonio Laperal-Tamayo (Education and Culture), Florangel Rosario-Braid (Journalism and Development Communication), and Sr. Mary John Mananzan (Women’s Studies and Feminism) after the awards ceremony last April…
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