Goodies from bets flood Dagupan
By Yolanda SoteloIt’s raining grocery items and rice in this city, with political candidates wooing voters with bags of goodies as Election Day nears.
It’s raining grocery items and rice in this city, with political candidates wooing voters with bags of goodies as Election Day nears.
Liberal Party (LP) members in Pangasinan condemned what they said is the disinformation campaign being waged by supporters of Nationalist People’s Coalition re-electionist Gov. Amado Espino Jr., saying this was a “desperate measure meant to arrest the dwindling public support for his re-election bid.”

If you can’t lick them, eat them. Or feed them to other fish. The knife fish, an ornamental fish whose population has boomed and is harming the aquaculture industry in Laguna Lake, will be converted into fish meal and fed to sea bass cultured at the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) research center here.

Alaska is a remote coastal village of Aringay, La Union, where blast fishing used to be the main occupation of its residents. In this village, some fishermen used to manufacture improvised dynamite sticks that they used in illegal fishing.

Lola Narcisa Balmonte is turning 100 years old in October and she will celebrate her birthday doing what she loves to do—sing.
DAGUPAN CITY—Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza said the supposed P4.7-billion plunder case filed against him and other city officials by a group of incumbent and former barangay chairs in his city was not only absurd and ridiculous, but a bum steer. In a news conference here on Wednesday, Braganza said he could never have [...]
Saying an international “corporate behemoth” has threatened to overwhelm the country’s food producing industry, businessmen and leaders of civic organizations have joined hands at an agriculture summit to stop Thailand’s Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods Corp. on its track.

The gun enthusiast that he is, President Aquino has asked the Commission on Elections (Comelec) for a “personal” exemption from the election gun ban, an election official said yesterday.

Mayor Herminio Romero died of heart attack Sunday night while speaking before a crowd at a Christmas party in San Fabian town.
One of Gov. Amado Espino Jr.’s most bitter political rivals has asked the governor to stop blaming others for the charges that had been filed against him for allegedly protecting illegal gambling in Pangasinan.

Pangasinan Gov. Amado Espino on Monday denied living on money from the illegal numbers racket “jueteng.”

Bugallon Mayor Rodrigo Orduña, the man who blew the whistle on the alleged involvement of Pangasinan Gov. Amado Espino Jr. in jueteng operations in the province, reported for work in his town on Monday, this time with security aides monitoring his movements following his exposé last week.

Every day, 25 Grade 6 students from the coastal city of San Fernando in La Union hold their morning classes on the beach. There, they learn about marine ecology, strengthen their awareness of the environment and understand the impact of the world’s changing climate.