A FORMER board president of the Central Pangasinan Electric Cooperative (Cenpelco) filed his certificate of candidacy for a seat in the Second District of the Provincial Board. Manuel ‘Bobby’ Merrera, said he needs to win this race so he could fight for the people’s rights against Cenpelco itself where he…
A FORMER presidential assistant is seeking to run as representative of the congressional Third District of Pangasinan. Generoso ‘Bang’ Mamaril, presidential assistant for Maritime Affairs during PGMA’s term, filed his certificate of candidacy to the COMELEC provincial office Thursday afternoon, October 7. A resident of Malasiqui town, Mamaril seeks to…
THE police installed a solar-powered street light and a free WiFi zone providing safe haven to students residing in Purok 3, Barangay San Juan in Umingan town as part of the implementation of the project Pailaw at Pantawag ng Pulis projects. These were formally turned over to barangay residents P/BGen. General Emmanuel…
AN engineer and his fellow contractor suspected of swindling an overseas couple were nabbed in an entrapment operation by the National Bureau of Investigation-Dagupan District Office (NBI-DADO) on Monday, October 4 in Bani town. The operation stemmed from the complaint filed by Angelita Medrano, a retired post office employee residing…
PANGASINAN GAINS VS DELTA ONSLAUGHT NOTWITHSTANDING the continued threat of the more transmittable COVID-19 Delta variant in Pangasinan, the fight against the pandemic took a dramatic turn when statistics for the period September 24 to 30 indicated there were 2,433 patients that recovered against 1,582 new confirmed cases logged, while…
FIRST TO FILE CoC – MTRCB Chair Rachel Arenas catches everyone’s attention being the first to show up at the Comelec Provincial Office in Dagupan City to file her certificate of candidacy as representative for Pangasinan’s 3rd Congressional District. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
MOVIE and Television Review Classification Board Chairman Rachel Arenas was the first to file her certificate of candidacy (COC) on Oct. 1 as representative of the Third Congressional District. Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia also filed his COC last Friday for his re-election for a third successive term under…
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod passed a resolution asking Mayor Brian Lim to temporarily close parts of Zamora and Jovellanos Streets from October 1 to 8 to give way to the filing of certificates of candidacy by prospective candidates of Dagupan City. The resolution passed during the SP session on Thursday (September…
RETITILING OF PLANTILLA POSTS MEMBERS of the majority at the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod voted to defer the passage of an ordinance proposed by city hall and sponsored by members of the minority. Councilor Luis Samson. Jr. moved for the deferment of the passage of Draft Ordinance 0-797 seeking the retitling…
THE Commission on Elections (Comelec) in Sual town detected the application of almost 2,000 suspected “flying voters” a few days before the Sept. 30 voters’ registration deadline. Municipal elections officer Eva Quinto said an unusual influx of voter registrants in the past weeks was detected and when they asked registrants…
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