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Barangay evils: Drugs and corruption THERE is no more debate about illegal drugs, it being a major election issue in the coming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections. The candidates themselves are cognizant of this. More than 98 percent already took drug tests as recommended by PDEA and the PNP to…
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PNP REGIONAL OFFICE 1 MONITORING CALASIAO—A total of 384 candidates in the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan (SK) elections in Region 1—of which 209 are in Pangasinan—are reportedly involved in illegal drugs, according to the police regional director. Chief Superintendent Romulo Sapitula told local newsmen on May 2 here for the…
209 Pangasinan bets in narco list
IT’S TIME TO GRILL BANGUS! — Dagupan City officials led by Mayor Belen Fernandez with former House Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr., former Rep. Gina de Venecia, Rep. Christopher de Venecia, and Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos set fire on the grill to signal the start of Kalutan ed Dalan late afternoon of…
IT’S TIME TO GRILL BANGUS!
BANGUS FESTIVAL 2018 MORE than a million people—a new record turnout—joined this year’s Bangusan Street Party or “Kalutan Ed Dalan” on the De Venecia Highway Extension on April 30. It was the biggest Bangusan Street Party yet as the number of Dagupeños and visitors from neighboring cities and towns who…
Bangusan Street Party was a big blast
TO BARANGAY BRASS IN NARCO-LIST SURRENDER and undergo rehabilitation if necessary, Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque has exhorted barangay officials whose names are in the so-called “narco list” released by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). Roque, who was in Dagupan City on April 30 for the Kalutan ed Dalan (street…
Sec. Roque: Surrender, undergo rehab
ELECTION WATCH LIST AREAS SIX barangays in Pangasinan have been included in the Election Watch List Areas in Pangasinan for the Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections due to “intense political rivalries”. This was revealed by Provincial Elections Supervisor Marino Salas who said the joint monitoring teams by the Commission on Elections,…
Six Pangasinan barangays on ‘yellow alert’
THE municipality of Calasiao has been officially cleared of illegal drugs by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Regional Office 1. P/Superintendent Charlie Umayam, Calasiao police chief, said all the 24 barangays have been cleared earlier of illegal drugs, while the 414 drug surrenderers have completed the community-based rehabilitation program…
Calasiao declared ‘drug-cleared’
FULFILLING KABALEYANS’ DREAM MALASIQUI—Third District Rep. Rose Marie “Baby” Arenas and her daughter, Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) Chair Rachel Arenas, made dreams come true for thousands of their ‘kabaleyans’ by bringing to the local stage Coco Martin, king of Philippine primetime television, on April 29 in…
