DAGUPAN Mayor Benjamin Lim is not yet off the hook in connection with the controversial Awai land deal in 2002 wherein the Dagupan City government paid P16 million for a less than 30-hectare land in Barangay Awai, San Jacinto, supposedly for a sanitary landfill project. Even as the administrative aspect…
SECRETARY Antonio Villar Jr., breaking his silence on jueteng, said he is appalled that “some influential people” are supporting candidates involved in the illegal numbers game in Pangasinan. Villar, chairman of Dangerous Drugs Board, said he is not happy with what’s going on in his own home province where, he…
PINDANG CHAMPION—Digna Salvatin is focused on slicing a three-kilo chunk of carabeef during the Longest Pindang contest, which she won over nine other competitors by producing a 194-inch strip of the delicacy for which Mangaldan is known for. Salvatin also won the Pindang-Making Rodeo, all held March 3 during the…
TARGET: GUINNESS RECORD MANGALDAN—The crowd that came to join the first Pindang Festival here last weekend were treated to a feast of the town’s most popular product — tasty dried carabeef known as pindang. The pindang products were served by the town’s association of meat entrepreneurs following a dry run…
PANGASINAN remains one of the vote-richest provinces in the country, now with 1,651,814 registered voters for the May midterm election, 29,000 more than the previous election in 2010. In the 2010 elections, 1,295,552 or almost 80 percent of the 1,621,959 registered voters cast their ballot. Lawyer Marino Salas, provincial election…
FIGHT FOR JUSTICE—(From left) Dasol Councilor Rizalde Bernal, with Crisanta and Marvin Martinez, the bereaved wife and son of slain Mayor Ruperto Martinez of Infanta, assert they have enough and strong evidence during a press conference on February 28, three days after they filed charges against Atty. Florante Miano for…
MARTINEZ FAMILY SPEAKS OUT LINGAYEN—We have enough evidence. This was the confident assertion of the two sons of slain Infanta Mayor Ruperto Martinez during a press conference last February 28, three days after they filed a complaint against Atty. Florante Miano in connection with the assassination of their father.
LINGAYEN—Governor Amado Espino Jr. has admitted that the charges hurled against him, the latest of which is for allegedly masterminding the murder of Infanta Mayor Ruperto Martinez last December, have been “difficult” but he said he will not give in to the “dirty politics” being pursued by his political enemies….
IS DAGUPAN Mayor Benjamin Lim deliberately preventing Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez from functioning as officer-in-charge mayor while he is away on an overseas trip? In Lim’s recent personal trip to China from February 26 to March 1, the mayor filed his leave of absence with the Sangguniang Panlungsod only on…
THE Office of the Civil Defense (OCD) recently confirmed that the oil spill last week at the Lingayen Gulf has remained within the coastal areas of La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte, and has not spread to the waters of Pangasinan. Melchito Castro, OCD-Region 1 chief, also said the…
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