By Ermin Garcia Jr. SENATOR Ping Lacson was in town last Sunday, and I doggone missed it. I had wanted to listen in to his much talked about dialogues in town hall meetings with stakeholders in public service and governance. I’ve always known the senator to be a no-frills…
29 COVID-FREE TOWNS/CITIES THIRTY-FOUR new active COVID-19 cases in Pangasinan were reported over the six-day period ending on December 20. However, there were 24 patients that recovered. The positive note was no death was recorded during the past six-day period. There were six new cases logged on December 16 with…
MANGALDAN’S DEPICTION OF NATIVITY – Residents and visitors approach the life-size mock-up of the depiction of the birth of Jesus Christ for better appreciation of the creative details erected at the town plaza. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
P200K FUND FOR EACH BARANGAY WITH only six days before the year ends, only eight of the 31 barangays in Dagupan City received their respective shares of this year’s allocated P6.2 million Barangay Fund. This was bared by City Councilor Teresa Coquia who confirmed that seven barangays (Mayombo, Mangin, Barangays…
A post of the Public Information Office of Dagupan City that falsely credited City Councilor Celia Lim as author of the ordinance increasing the allowance of barangay tanods and an insensitive comment by a market marshal directed at Councilor Teresa Coquia created a furor at the Sangguniang Panglunsod (SP). The…
By Al S. Mendoza MANNY Pacquiao has stopped giving his money to the people. He has said it himself. “I have to stop, but only temporarily, though,” he said in Tagalog. “I do not wish to disturb the relief operations being done now by our police and soldiers.” He was…
By Leoanrdo Micua TOO bad, Typhoon Odette came just after Mayor Brian Lim was promised by President Duterte to extend financial assistance for the construction of a hospital in Dagupan. Methinks that with the big swath of destruction left by the typhoon in some parts of the Visayas and…
PING LACSON DISCUSSES “3K” – Presidential aspirant Sen. Ping Lacson explains his team’s political strengths – (Kakayahan, Katapangan at Katapatan) during the “Online Kumustahan sa Pangasinan with residents of Lingayen and other towns connected to the event last Sunday held at the Lingayen Civic Center See story on page 3. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
DIALOGUES ON PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS PRESIDENTIAL aspirant Senator Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson said on Dec. 19 that his team may not match the touted Solid North and Solid South votes of their rival team today but he expressed confidence that their “3K” message (Kakayahan, Katapangan at Katapatanf) communicated through dialogues will…
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) declared two Pangasinenses who filed their certificates of candidacy for president in the May 2022 polls as nuisance candidates. Provincial elections supervisor Marino Salas, however, did not identify the two who filed their COCs and simply hinted that one is from Mapandan town while the…
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