NEWLY elected Calasiao Mayor Mamilyn ‘Maya’ Caramat, was laid to rest on Wednesday, January 18 at the town’s Garden of Eden Memorial Park after a necrological mass at the St. Peter and Paul Parish Church officiated by Archbishop Socrates Villegas. Leading the funeral cortege that moved solemnly were members of…
THIRTY tribe members from the Indigenous Peoples (IP) in Malico, San Nicolas town have been registered by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) during a special satellite voter registration. Gina Aquino, COMELEC San Nicolas election officer, said the regionwide simultaneous special satellite registration launched on January 14 targeted to the vulnerable…
COMMEMORATING MACARTHUR LANDING – The erecting of the Philippine flag by a laborer in front of Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s photo before the start of the 78th commemorative program in Dagupan City is reminiscent of victorious collaboration between Pangasinan guerillas and the American liberation forces’ landing in the beaches of Lingayen Gulf on January 9,…
FOR BLOCKING URGENT MEASURES A DILG legal opinion in 2019 states that if the Sanggunian committed inaction that is intentional and without valid and justifiable grounds on matters certified as urgent by the Local Chief Executive (LCE), thereby showing no consideration on the priorities of the administration, “the members, thereof, are…
AFTER SIX MONTHS IN OFFICE THE municipality of Calasiao lost its newly elected mayor after serving her constituents only six months in office. The sudden death of its town mayor, Mamilyn ‘Maya’ Agustin-Caramat on Sunday, January 8 shocked political leaders across the province. Report from Aksyon Radyo Pangasinan’s Freddie Fajardo,…
THE MacArthur Park located on a private lot in Barangay Bonuan Gueset where the monument of General Douglas Mac Arthur was erected in the 1980s will still be retained and developed by the current city administration in addition to the new site in Tondaligan Beach. This was announced by Dagupan…
FANGED SUBMITS LETTER JANUARY 6 REGIONAL police director P/Brig. General John Chua and the four provincial directors under him have filed their respective courtesy resignations in response to the call of Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Benjamin Abalos to all senior officers to submit their courtesy resignations….
TARGET: 50K NEW VOTERS THE Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in Pangasinan recorded 17,971 new registrants for the upcoming Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) on October 2023. Atty. Marino Salas, provincial election supervisor, said 7,275 are SK voters, while 10,690 as regular voters. Salas projects an uptick in the number…
NEW YEAR AT THE BEACH – The crowd scene at the Binmaley Beach on January 1 makes one wish it is what’s in store for people in Pangasinan the whole year – weekly fun for families. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez)
A notarized administrative complaint will be filed by Sunday PUNCH Publisher Ermin Garcia Jr. before the Office of President and the Department of the Interior and Local Government against Councilor Redford P. Erfe-Mejia for grave abuse of authority and misconduct when he ordered the Sangguniang Panlungsod Secretary to ban Leonardo…
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