ADVICE TO NEW BARANGAY, SK BRASS STA. BARBARA—Gov. Amado Espino III has called on newly elected and reelected barangay officials in Pangasinan to “be true to their mandate” by serving the people the best way they can as they had promised their constituents. Speaking to newsmen after the turnover of…
FOR ELECTION SERVICES RENDERED AFTER providing vital services to the nation by serving as Board of Election Tellers (BET), Board of Election Inspectors and Canvassers, tired teachers were disappointed to learn that they will again have to wait for government to pay them what’s due them in honoraria. The teachers…
THE drug-clearing operations of Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and Pangasinan Police Provincial Office (PPPO), which was suspended recently to give way to the May 14 barangay and sangguniang kabataan elections, will resume this week. P/ Chief Inspector Norman Florentino, police community relations officer, said so far, 25 towns and…
LINGAYEN—Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas said part of democracy is to watch over elected public officials for 365 days a year. Villegas, who voted in West Central Elementary School, Dagupan City, told local newsmen that he made an appeal for people to vote carrying with them their Christian faith. He said…
HER PRECIOUS VOTES – An elderly drops her ballot at the ballot box after casting her votes for her chosen candidates in a village in Lingayen during the synchronized Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections on May 14. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
SAN FABIAN—Will the reforms introduced in the 2016 Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) Reform Law finally give the youth councils the chance to organize and lead effectively? This was uppermost in the minds of Fourth District Rep. Christopher de Venecia as he and his mother, former Rep. Gina de Venecia, cast their…
DAGUPAN’S LARGEST BARANGAYS A NEOPHYTE in barangay politics in Bonuan Gueset on May 14 won by a landslide over the reelectionist kapitan. In an official count, Manuel ‘Noel’ Bumanglag who challenged Ricardo ‘Rico’ Mejia who ruled the barangay for 26 long years, was credited with 5,200 votes against Mejia’s 2,963….
CALASIAO—All the barangay and sangguniang kabataan (SK) candidates in Barangay Longos in this town made history in the last local elections: there was no contest at all, all ran unopposed. Winning the barangay captain post, Haverdani Das Mesina, youngest brother of Vice Mayor Mahadeva Das Mesina who hails from Longos,…
MALASIQUI—The winners in two barangays, for barangay captain in one and sangguniang kabataan chairman in another where candidates garnered the same number of votes, were settled by the Commission on Elections municipal office through the drawing of lots. In the two-cornered fight Barangay Nalsian Sur, Domingo Ico and Armando Opguar,…
INCUMBENT KAP LOSES IN BUED CALASIAO—The battle royale for kapitan slot in Barangay Bued this town, between incumbent Allan Roy Macanlalay and comebacking Carlito Dion was close but was eventually won by the latter by just 100 votes amid charges and counter charges of vote-buying. Four kagawads in Dion’s ticket also won…
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