MATUWID NA DAAN SECRETARY Herminio “Sonny” Coloma of the Presidential Communications Operations Office welcomed the suggestion of forming a “Matuwid na Daan” movement in the provinces to further promote good governance at the local government level. The suggestion came from members of the Pangasinan Press Club (PPC) whom Coloma addressed…
BRAGANZA ON FIRE—Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza (right), the Liberal Party’s gubernatorial candidate for the May 2013 election, together with former Vice Governor Oscar Lambino, now the LP’s provincial spokesperson, hit back at Board Member Ranjit Shahani, an estranged member of their party during the KBP Forum last week. (Punchphoto…
“TREASONOUS ACT” OUTGOING Alaminos City Mayor and governor-wannabe Hernani Braganza is in a word-war mode against his cousin Board Member Ranjit Ramos Shahani, a party-mate, after the latter openly endorsed the candidacy of Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. Braganza, the Liberal Party (LP) bet for governor of Pangasinan, minced no…
“FLYING VOTERS” IN DAGUPAN? COULD it be a political ploy by some candidates for the May 2013 election? The Commission on Election (Comelec) in Dagupan suspects so as a deluge of new registrants and transferees voters trying to beat the October 31 deadline swamped the office last week. To address…
THERE’S another cemetery worth visiting by everyone on November 1, the observance of Undas, or All Souls’ Day, when Filipinos traditionally go the grave of their departed dear ones. Dagupan City is home to the only known fish cemetery in the country, located in Barangay Bonuan Binloc within the 24-hectare…
SUAL–Soil analysis conducted by the Bureau of Soil (BoS) at its laboratory in Region IV A belied allegations that ash from the 1,200 megawatt Sual Coal-Fired Power Plant here is to be blamed for unproductive rice lands in Barangay Pangascasan here. Farmers in the barangay have pointed to the power…
THE pilgrim image of the second Filipino saint, San Pedro Calungsod, canonized last October 21 by Pope Benedict XVI, will visit the Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan on November 4 to 5. Prior to the visit, the novena in honor of the saint will be prayed in all the parishes, chaplaincies and…
SURPRISE TURN AROUND LINGAYEN—Board Member Ranjit Shahani has once again taken a 180-degree political turn. Shahani, who is running for re-election in the May 2013 polls, announced he is now supporting the re-election bids of Governor Amado Espino Jr. and his running mate Jose Ferdinand Calimlim under the Nationalist People’s…
MAYOR Benjamin S. Lim has appealed to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) to ratify the proposed framework for Dagupan’s Annual Investment Plan (AIP) covering the city’s budget for the next six years requiring a total investment of P1.473 billion. Lim’s letter to the SP dated September 27, 2012 outlined what he…
THE National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has recommended the prosecution for murder of an incumbent official in Malasiqui town in connection with the slaying of a barangay chairman at the town plaza in the morning of December 15, 2003. In a letter dated October 19, 2012 to the Provincial Prosecutor…
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