LINGAYEN–While the most number of crimes committed this year was registered in the 4th District, the solution of crimes in the district is also rated the highest in the province. Based on police statistics, 350 index and non-index crimes were recorded from January 1 to Sept. 15 in the district…
BELIEVE IT OR NOT MABINI– If you think Pangasinan is the most affluent and productive province, think again! Pangasinan may be the biggest in terms of land area and population within the Ilocos Region, but it remains the poorest province in the entire region.
VILLASIS–This town, known as the vegetable bowl of Pangasinan, is now busy preparing for a grand feast of pinakbet for 6,000 people during the celebration of its 4th Talong Festival in January next year. Mayor Nonato Abrenica told The PUNCH that the town aims to set up a community-shared meal…
CLARK, Pampanga–Judge me by the people’s health. Gov. Amado Espino Jr. is ready to be evaluated on his performance as the province’s leader based on the health of Pangasinenses. In his key-note address during the first Pangasinan Health Summit held last September 25-26 at Oxford Hotel inside the Clark Freeport…
NO TO SHOTGUN—Mayor Hernani Braganza of Alaminos City (second from right) explains why he is rejecting the shotguns-for-barangay-chairman program of Gov. Amado Espino Jr. during a press conference. With him are Vice Mayor Teofilo Humilde Jr., Councilor Cirilo Radoc and Mrs. Carla Bautista, mother of Gabriel Bautista, a nurse who…
FOR A HEALTHY PANGASINAN—Pangasinan Gov. Amado Espino Jr. delivers his message during the formal opening of the Pangasinan Health Summit on September 25 at the Oxford Hotel and Convention Center at the Clark Freeport Zone.
CALASIAO MUNICIPAL BUILDING FIRE CALASIAO–The town’s residents will not be content with the promised standard investigation and are pressing for a deeper probe into the fire that razed the town’s municipal building and the Tesoro shrine to the ground at dawn on Monday. While authorities are now investigating the fire,…
THE Calasiao fire department is under probe for alleged delayed response during the incident. Mayor Roy Macanlalay told The PUNCH that Fire Chief Inspector Emilio Langkay and his men will be investigated separately by the local officials while another investigation is being conducted by the regional office of the Bureau…
SAN CARLOS CITY—Mayor Julier Resuello wishes that the hitman, who shot his father, the late Mayor Julian Resuello, would be arrested alive and well. “It’s better if he’s alive because a dead man tells no tale,” Resuello said in a chat with newsmen at his office shortly after delivering his…
LINGAYEN–The implementation of the Espino administration’s ‘shotguns-for-barangay chairmen’ appears to have been a classic case of putting the cart before the horse. The shotguns were issued sans any established set of guidelines for the use and safekeeping of the firearm and validating qualification of the barangay officials to possess the…
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