CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, March 31 (PIA) — Spearheading this year’s first Barangay Assembly Day tomorrow (March 31), the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) has chosen Barangay San Miguel in Lubao town as the showcase barangay in the region. DILG Regional Director Florida Dijan said “this activity which will be conducted simultaneously […]
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her husband, Jose Miguel Arroyo, are ready to face the music but a coaccused in a graft complaint against them is not. The Arroyos are set to be arraigned Wednesday on graft charges over the canceled $329-million national broadband network (NBN) deal but former Transportation and Communications Secretary Leandro Mendoza […]
ANGELES CITY – This city and the province of Pampanga will have a lone representative in this year’s staging of Binibining Pilipinas, the country’s most prestigious beauty pageant. Gina Joy Gasmen Howell, a 20-year-old lass from Barangay Mining here, is the lone candidate from Pampanga to the annual beauty tilt which winners will be crowned […]
PAMPANGA — As part of Central Luzon police force’s observance of Holy Week, Regional Director Edgardo T. Ladao led the “Way of the Cross” during the traditional “Stations of the Cross” here. The “Stations of the Cross” is a re-enactment of the final hours of Jesus before the Crucifixion and one of the most popular […]
ANGELES CITY — Balibago chief Rodelio Mamac is set to file before the Regional Trial Court (RTC) a petition for declaratory relief against City Council Ordinance 296, which creates the city’s Motorized Tricycle Franchising and Regulatory Board. Mamac said the petition stipulates prayer to declare the ordinance null and void because it is unconstitutional and […]
PAMPANGA — Nurses and health practitioners under Outreach Community Advocate Nurses Assigned in Rural Service (OCA-Nars) aided the “crucified” penitents in Good Friday’s crucifixion rites in Barangay San Pedro Cutud. They also provided first aid to the public during the Maleldo 2012 event. http://www.balibago.org/ Enjoyable place for traveler to hang out near Manila for family […]
MABALACAT — The police chief here said there were no untoward incidents during the observance of the Holy Week. Superintendent Rodney Raymond Louie J. Baloyo IV, town police chief, said the holidays were generally peaceful. http://www.balibago.org/ Highly recommended resort for family reunion near Manila is Clearwater Lake Hotel Clark Pampanga Residents of Manila and Angeles […]
PAMPANGA — Mayor Oscar Rodriguez recently urged the San Fernando police and fire department to conduct continuous fire drills and teach Fernandinos how to deal with fire incidents that may arise in their areas. Rodriguez issued the directive during the culminating event of the city’s observance of fire prevention month last March. http://www.balibago.org/ Clark is […]
Man nabbed in Magalang drug bustMAGALANG — Elements of the Magalang Municipal Police Station (MPS) recently conducted a buy-bust operation inside the Sta. Lucia Resettlement Center in Barangay San Isidro here that resulted in the arrest of one suspected drug peddler. Police identified the suspect as one Jenver Razon, 34, married and a resident of […]
STO.TOMAS — “It’s really getting to be more fun in Sto. Tomas!” This was the common cheer on Sunday afternoon as hundreds of locals, out-of-town visitors and some foreign tourists mobbed the streets of this town to get a view of what they branded as a grander “Sabuaga Festival.” The annual Easter Sunday festival of […]