THE race is on! Nine-hundred-twenty-eight candidates registered for the barangay election and another 694 for the Sangguniang Kabataan elections in 31 barangays of Dagupan as of midnight on October 13, the deadline for the filing of certificates of candidacy.
LINGAYEN—The members of the provincial board recorded another first since the board’s reorganization four months ago. After unanimously signing a manifesto threatening to declare Archbishop Oscar Cruz as persona non grata, the members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan convened last Friday only to approve one resolution – to endorse the operation of…
ONE YEAR AFTER TYPHOON PEPENG THE bangus industry in the province, among the most affected by typhoon Pepeng and the ensuing flood in October last year, has now recovered and production is on the rise.
THEY come from two different countries and speak two different tongues, but their hearts beat as one when it comes to motherhood. This was Rep. Gina de Venecia and former First Lady of Panama Vivian Fernandez Torrijos, saw its other when they met in Panama recently.
ON HIGH ALERT THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is on high alert in Pangasinan and the rest of the Ilocos Region against displaced jueteng collectors and cabos who may have shifted to drug pushing since the illegal numbers game had grounded to a halt. PDEA Region 1 Director Robert…
ESPINO AT THE SENATE–Gov. Amado Espino Jr. (right) shakes hand with Senator Teofisto “TG” Guingona, chairman of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee, during the hearing on jueteng last October 6. Espino, who has been named among those benefitting from jueteng payola, urged the senators to be “more circumspect and exercise…
LINGAYEN–A resolution was filed before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) on Friday giving the green light to the operation of Small Lottery (STL) in Pangasinan, ostensibly in an effort to stamp out the illegal numbers game jueteng. Under the resolution, STL will be operated by a duly registered corporation pre-qualified and given…
BRUCE LEE’S PRIEST–Archbishop Socrates Villegas (inset) addresses the crowd that attended the Mass he celebrated at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Dagupan City marking his 25th anniversary as a priest, confessing that he first idolized the late martial arts icon Bruce Lee before he did Jesus ….
“GOD called me to follow Him and He called me through Bruce Lee.” Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas shared this little secret in his homily during the Mass celebrating his silver anniversary in the priesthood on October 6 at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist in Dagupan.
ARCHBISHOP’S BURDEN–Retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz, founder of the Krusada ng Bayan laban sa Jueteng who recently testified before the Senate about the continued operation of the illegal numbers game in most parts of the country, shares with The PUNCH columnist Jun Velasco the burden he has to carry by exposing…
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