LINGAYEN—Former Congressman Amado Espino Jr. finally broke his silence and maintained that politics was behind the attempt to assassinate him on Sept. 11 in Barangay Magtaking, San Carlos City, an incident that killed his driver and a police bodyguard that also wounded him and his two other companions. After 21…
SM CENTER OPENS IN DAGUPAN — Vice Governor Mark Lambino takes a groufie shot with SM Chairman for Executive Committee Hans T. Sy and SM Prime Holdings President Jeffrey Lim and Dagupan City Vice Mayor Dean Bryan Kua. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE SM Center Dagupan opened Friday, the 74th mall of SM Prime Holdings and its third in Pangasinan. Steven Tan, chief operating officer of SM Supermalls, told newsmen that Pangasinenses can expect a lot of new brands and restaurants at SM Center Dagupan that the public can patronize and enjoy. “He…
LINGAYEN Mayor Leopoldo Batoil, a former three-term congressman of the Second District before he was elected mayor of Lingayen, is the president of the League of the Municipalities of the Philippines (Pangasinan chapter) or sometimes called as Pangasinan Mayors’ League in a two-cornered fight held at The Monarch Hotel in…
A 24-year-old athlete from Calasiao town is set to represent the Philippines in the eSportsevent in the 30th Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) come November 30. Kyle Jefferson Padlan is a member of the seven-man SIBOL team Philippine eSportsTeam, that will play the Arena of Valor (AoV). Padlan is set…
FOR POLIO FREE PHL — A city health worker administers a polio vaccine to an infant as the campaign to help regain Philippines’ status as polio-free started last week at the local city health center in Dagupan City on Wednesday. The city conducts regular free immunization for children all year-round. (Punchphoto by Jojo…
SAMPLES SENT FOR TESTING LINGAYEN—Sixty hogs that were transported from Bustos, Bulacan and slipped through undetected to Barangay Baloleng, Mapandan, were killed and buried immediately to ensure that the suspected African Swine Fever (ASF) will not infect other hogs in Pangasinan. This was bared by Provincial Legal Officer Geraldine Baniqued,…
LINGAYEN—Two Isuzu Elf trucks loaded with 45 and 40 heads of live swine, respectively, were temporarily intercepted by police and veterinary personnel manning a quarantine checkpoint along the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEx) in Barangay Bobonan, Pozorrubio on the night of September 22 before they were allowed to proceed to Baguio…
PIGLETS, BREEDERS TO BE ALLOWED A proposed amendment to the executive order directing a temporary total ban on all swines from outside the province entering the province was submitted by the Office of the Provincial Veterinary and Provincial Legal Office to Gov. Amado Espino III. According to Dr. Jovito Tabajeros,…
THE investigation into the slay attempt on former Congressman. Amado Espino Jr. that wounded him and killed his police bodyguard and driver hit a snag when a businessman tagged by the Special Investigation Task Group (SITG) Espino Jr. as the alleged last owner of one of the get-away vehicles denied…
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