ALAMINOS CITY–The debate on the distribution of shotguns to the province’s more than 1,300 barangay chairmen is likely catch national attention soon, Dante Jimenez, chairman of the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC), vowed Thursday during a quick visit here he would ask higher government officials to investigate the shotgun…

LINGAYEN–Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr. has warned Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza against possible “grave abuse of authority” for rejecting the province’s program arming barangay chairmen (kapitans) with shotguns. In a privilege speech Monday, Bince, co-chairman of the Committee on Good Governance, said the actions of Braganza, as well as…

ALAMINOS CITY–Officials of Alaminos City are giving a strong show of support to their city mayor who has been under attack for being the lone voice against the provincial government’s shotgun-for-barangay chairman (kapitan) program. Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr. delivered a privilege speech on Monday warning Alaminos Mayor Hernani Braganza…

TAYUG– Former mayor Madelyn Cabotaje-Ramirez has won a Regional Trial Court battle declaring her as the winning vice-mayoralty candidate in last year’s election. However, the lawyers of sitting Vice Mayor Janette Zaragoza said they are preparing to appeal the decision before the Court of Appeals to prevent Ramirez from taking…

URDANETA CITY–Records show the number of casual employees assigned at the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) office has more than doubled from 60 in previous years to 125 this year. But the mayor does not know where all these people are. And so Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. has launched a hunt for…

LINGAYEN — The province’s first government-owned dialysis center at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital in San Carlos City will start serving the public by January next year. Gov. Amado Espino Jr. made this assurance during the groundbreaking ceremonies last Friday, even as he announced that the center will be named after…

LINGAYEN—“I don’t give a damn about these shotguns.” This was the reaction of a visibly irked Governor Amado Espino Jr. to the continued protestation of Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza over the provincial government’s program providing barangay chairmen with shotguns indiscriminately.

Lingayen–Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz confessed he used to be a lover of guns but joined anyway the growing number of people protesting the issuance of the pump shotguns to Pangasinan’s 1,330 barangay chairmen (kapitans). In an interview with local media at his chancery, Cruz questioned the propriety of the provincial…

WHILE the provincial police command endorsed the distribution of shotguns to the barangay chairmen in the province, Dagupan City’s police chief would have it the other way. P/Supt. Mariano Luis Verzosa, Dagupan chief of police, maintained that if the city government would have funds for firearms, he would rather that…