ECONOMICS AND POLITICS—House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. briefs his guest, Ai Ping, director of China’s international department of the Communist Party of China and member of the party’s central committee, about economics and politics in the country, in their one-on-one meeting at his farm house in Dagupan City. The…
‘HIRED KILLER’ ARRESTED Mastermind’s identity yet to be unmasked URDANETA CITY—The slaying of a son of a city councilor here on March 5 may now have been solved, thanks to a concerned citizen here. The suspect, Vicente Simon, 31, allegedly a hired killer who shot the son of Councilor Julio…
GOODBYE Mayor Benjamin Lim. Their loyalty is now to House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr. Majority of the 31 barangay chairmen in Dagupan City who used to support Lim have now turned their backs against their mayor following his decision to run against De Venecia in the congressional race. According…
AS the campaign period heats up, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has had to clarify for the nth time that there was no over-spending in the construction of the Dawel-Pantal-Lucao road. The clarification was made by Yolanda Tangco, the project engineer assigned by the DPWH to supervise…
“Choose the best and reject the worst.” This was the appeal of Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz during his homily in the Mass for peace and covenant signing among local bets for the May 14 elections. “If we choose the best ones, we will all be benefited (but) everyone will suffer…
CAMP BRIG. GENERAL OSCAR FLORENDO, La Union–Apart from Dagupan City, 44 other towns and cities in the Ilocos region have so far held a special mass and covenant signing for the conduct of peaceful and honest election in May. Police Regional Director Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil, who initiated the twin…
The Biskeg na Pangasinan (Strength of Pangasinan), newly accredited by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) as a provincial political party, is proving itself to be a formidable force in the province by fielding a total of 286 local candidates for different positions. Undersecretary for Local Governance Antonio Villar Jr., Biskeg…
DAGUPAN CITY CAMPAIGN THE line has been drawn: It’s the administration’s Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats versus the PDP Laban in Dagupan City. But PDP Laban who? Based on a random survey in the city, PDP-Laban, the opposition party founded by Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, does not ring a bill in Pangasinan….
LET THE CONTEST BEGIN —(Upper photo) Lakas teammates join Speaker Joe De Venecia in applauding former Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez and former Councilor and CSI chair Belen Fernandez as they hold their certificates of candidacy shortly after filing with the City Election Office Thursday afternoon.- (Lower photo): Magic Group executive…
A TOTAL of 47 candidates are in the race for eight provincial posts and six congressional seats. Based on the certificates of candidacy received by the Office of the Provincial Elections Supervisor up to 12:00 midnight of Thursday, six are running for governor, two for vice governor, 14 for congress,…
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