THE Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) has already declared the onset of wet (rainy) season in the Philippines on Wednesday, May 18, deemed too early compared to previous years. According to Gener Quitong, weather forecaster from the Agno River Basin Forecasting and Warning System of the PAGASA,…
ONE-FOR-ALL, ALL-FOR-ONE – The victorious members of the Team Belen-BK get together to affirm their pledge to support the team’s agenda for Dagupan City after their proclamation. Joining Mayor-elect Belen Fernandez and Vice Mayor-elect Bryan Kua, are (left to right) Councilors-elect Jigs Seen, Dennis Canto, and Michael Fernandez. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
FORMER Mayor Belen Fernandez fulfilled her dream to return to her old post when she beat incumbent Mayor Brian Lim by a landslide in their return bout in the May 9 elections. Fernandez, who run under the Aksyon Demokratiko party, amassed 67,499 votes against Lim’s 42,689 votes or a commanding…
INCUMBENT Dagupan City Mayor Marc Brian Lim accepted his defeat in the May 9 local elections when he posted his message in the Public Information Office wall the following day congratulating former Mayor Belen Fernandez in her successful bid to be the next city mayor to succeed him. “Our people…
THE leaders of Alyansang Guico-Lambino (AGuiLa) minced no words in responding to the API political party’s charge of cheating and its plan to file an election protest: “The people have spoken. We should accept it.” In a press conference Wednesday after Ramon Guico III’s proclamation as governor-elect, Bayambang Mayor Cezar…
BAGUIO PROSECUTION OFFICE’S INVESTIGATION THE Office of the City Prosecutor of Baguio City has approved for filing the case by the Prosecutor’s Office in Dagupan City, of direct bribery after finding probable cause to indict the respondents in the case filed by Small Scale Fish Consignment and Retailers at Riverside…
NEWLY elected governor Ramon “Mon-Mon” Guico III assured Pangasinenses that they can expect a model of good governance through a transparent and excellent service from his administration. He assured on Wednesday that Pangasinan’s clamor for change and support will not go to waste as he will work hard to fulfill…
BANGUS FESTIVAL’S ‘KALUTAN’ – Thousands of residents and visitors strolled down the whole stretch of downtown A.B. Fernandez Avenue, during the restored ‘Kalutan ed Dagupan’ street party, the main crowd drawer of the traditional Bangus Festival in Dagupan City. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
FORMER Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez and her running-mate Vice Mayor Bryan Kua thanked the hierarchy of the Iglesia ni Cristo headed by Eduardo Manalo profusely for endorsing their candidacies in their bid for the mayoralty and vice mayoralty posts in the May 9 local election. “Me and my family…
EXTREME DANGER LEVEL AS “Pista’y Dayat” was being celebrated last May 1, Dagupan sizzled anew at 2 p.m., logging a heat index that reached the extreme danger level of 55 degrees centigrade, again the highest heat index ever recorded in the country that day. The Philippine Atmospheric Geo-physical Astronomical Sciences…
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