PEACE THROUGH KAMBINGAN—Tayug Mayor Carlos Trese Mapili (left) signs the peace covenant initiated by Police Provincial Director Sr. Supt. Percival Barba (middle) to ensure honest, peaceful and orderly election in the town, while Vice Mayor Madelyn Cabotaje- Ramirez waits for her turn to sign. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka) Back to…
GUN REPLICAS—Supt. Harris Fama, acting chief of police of Urdaneta City, examines one of the more than 100 gun replicas seized from ambulant vendors and others in line with the total gun ban that is in effect for the May election. Gun replicas are among those strictly prohibited to be…
BARANGAY CAPTAINS DEFIANT LINGAYEN—Recall and retrieval operations for all the 1,306 shotguns handed by the provincial government to barangay chairmen was not met when the January 25 deadline set by Police Provincial Director Percival Barba lapsed. As of Friday last week, only 774 shotguns were in custody of various police…
LINGAYEN–Governor Amado Espino Jr. hailed his first three-year term in office to be a period of transformation for Pangasinan from a “sad state” into a “world-class, functioning, efficient” province. In his third State of the Province Address delivered last week, which also served as his first term report, Espino cited…
ONE can manage to sidestep the law some time, but not all the time. This was the lesson learned by an agent of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), who entered a cockpit with a gun tucked in his waist. He was arrested for violating the nationwide gun ban imposed…
THE dredging machine bought by the administration of past mayor Benjie Lim from a P40 million loan with Land Bank of the Philippines is now virtually a useless junk. City Engineer Virginia Rosario said the machine, which was bought brand new, is now on dry dock after it developed a…
ALAMINOS officials have questioned why the city why has been included as among the places in the province placed under the watchlist of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Comelec. Mayor Hernani Braganza noted the development comes alongside the sudden change in the designation of a new city police chief…
ONCE there was a tall Bacayao tree, standing about 50 meters high, somewhere in the eastern part of Pangasinan. The place surrounding that tree came to be referred to as Layug, the Ilocano word for “tall”. The “L” sound proved to be a bit of a linguistic challenge for the…
STATE OF PANGASINAN—Governor Amado Espino Jr. (third from left) ́is escorted to the stage in front of the provincial Capitol where he delivered his 3rd State of the Province Address (SOPA) on Monday. With him were Board Members Tyrone Agabas, Alice Pulido, Nestor Reyes, Romeo Dadacay and Liberato Villegas. (PUNCHPhoto…
BARANGAY CAPTAINS DRAGGING THEIR FEET LINGAYEN—Only a little more than 50% of the shotguns issued by the provincial government to the barangay kapitans last year have been turned over to the police following a recall made in line with gun ban being implemented for the May 2010 elections. Senior Supt….
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