Sports Eye
Posted on April 2, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment
RP coach Reyes, PBA cagers conduct GenVel's basketball clinic
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.
AFTER successfully staging a bicycle road race last year, retired PNP Deputy Director General Reynaldo V. Velasco threw in his support to his second favorite sport, basketball.
GenVel, as he is fondly known, sponsored a basketball clinic at his hometown Sta. Barbara last [...]
Feelings
Posted on April 2, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
This show must go on!
By Emmanuelle
Count the city and the towns within this district, and you come out with less than ten digits. With forty-four towns and four cities comprising six districts of the province, this hint would make it a little harder for you to identify the community I shall write about.
I hope [...]
Powerhouse Lakas vs. underdog PDP - Laban
Posted on April 2, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
DAGUPAN CITY CAMPAIGN
THE line has been drawn: It’s the administration's Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats versus the PDP Laban in Dagupan City.
But PDP Laban who?
Based on a random survey in the city, PDP-Laban, the opposition party founded by Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, does not ring a bill in Pangasinan.
Perhaps, the easier way of understanding the political [...]
LET THE CONTEST BEGIN
Posted on April 2, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment
LET THE CONTEST BEGIN —(Upper photo) Lakas teammates join Speaker Joe De Venecia in applauding former Immigration Commissioner Alipio Fernandez and former Councilor and CSI chair Belen Fernandez as they hold their certificates of candidacy shortly after filing with the City Election Office Thursday afternoon.- (Lower photo): Magic Group executive Brian Lim and Councilor [...]
Certificates filed, 47 in the race
Posted on April 2, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
A TOTAL of 47 candidates are in the race for eight provincial posts and six congressional seats.
Based on the certificates of candidacy received by the Office of the Provincial Elections Supervisor up to 12:00 midnight of Thursday, six are running for governor, two for vice governor, 14 for congress, and the rest for board members.
Those [...]
Watch out for JdV in the hustings
Posted on April 2, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
House Speaker Jose de Venecia is confident about pulling off a victory but is not taking his campaign lightly either.
“I want to run scared. I want to work very hard,” said De Venecia who is seeking a third term for the congressional seat in the 4th district and, unlike in the two previous elections where [...]
Orbos backs out, race now 3-way
Posted on April 2, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
FORMER governor Oscar Orbos had a change of heart, paving the way for a three-cornered fight for the top provincial post in Pangasinan.
The race for governorship is now confined among Vice Governor Oscar Lambino representing the ruling Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats party, 2nd district Rep. Amado Espino, and Dr. Jamie Agbayani, wife of the incumbent, who [...]
When the 'newsmen' become newsmakers
Posted on April 2, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
At the height of the deadline for filing of candidacies for local positions, two local newsmen grabbed the spotlight as they engaged in a scuffle that was caught on camera and aired on television.
Jaime Aquino, publisher of a local tabloid, and fellow mediaman Allan Sison, former station manager of DZRH Dagupan, got into a brawl [...]
NEWSMEN'S BRAWL
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NEWSMEN'S BRAWL —Broadcaster Allan Sison (right) and publisher Jaime Aquino (left) cause a commotion in front of the Provincial Elections Office on Wednesday when they figured in a scuffle that ended with Aquino landing in the hospital with a broken nose.–(Punchphoto courtesy of USATV)
Police arrest bongbong dealers
Posted on April 2, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
LINGAYEN–Combined elements of the provincial and local police arrested a barangay kagawad and two others suspected to be members of a crime group engaged in the manufacture, distribution and sale of improvised explosives, locally known as bongbong, used for illegal fishing in the northwestern part of Pangasinan.
Nabbed Monday by joint elements of the Special Operations [...]
