The Dagupan City Health Office (CHO) is poised to close more of the 37 water refilling stations in this city that refuse to comply with the requirements set by the Health department to operate as it issued three initial notices of closure last week. Dr. Leonard Carbonell, city health…
LINGAYEN – “Catch us if you can” is the message of assassins and highway robbers to Police Provincial Director Alan Purisima’s Task Force ‘Hagibis’ which is still busy training its members. To make sure the motorcycle-riding guns-for-hire delivered their message, they struck anew last Thursday in barangay Bonuan Gueset…
LINGAYEN – To protect the public from counterfeit or fake medicines, Gov. Victor Agbayani has issued a strict order, directing all doctors in provincial government-run hospitals to begin issuing prescriptions to their patients for medicines that can be sourced out from their hospital pharmacies. Provincial Administrator Virgilio Solis said…
With just more than a year more before finally ending his term, Gov. Victor Agbayani was given the nod by the provincial board to borrow a fresh P300 million from the Land Bank of the Philippines. Vice Gov.Oscar Lambino said this will be in addition to the P350 million…
Lingayen – Preparations for the week-long celebration here of Pista’y Dayat are now in full blast. With the theme “Say Dayat Bilay” (The Sea as Source of Life), Gov. Victor E. Agbayani stressed that the urgency of protecting and conserving the coastal environment and resources, particularly the Lingayen Gulf…
Asia International Auctioneers, Inc. (AIA), the undisputed leader in the Philippines auction industry has set their biggest auction of the year on February 22 to 25, 2006. For their first auction this year, AIA has lined up over 2,000 high quality trucks and equipment. After being recognized as the country’s…
Thou shalt not use the name of God in vain. This was the unsolicited advice Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz to President Gloria Arroyo after she claimed that her being President was part of God’s plan for her and for the country. Reacting to Mrs. Arroyo’s earlier statement that…
URDANETA CITY – A battered woman found out too late that invoking mere self-defense is not mitigating enough in a homicide case. She was still meted imprisonment, though deemed a light penalty, by the court when she stabbed and killed a Philippine Marine she was living with for 13…
The balikbayan is king, or will be king in Dagupan. This was the gist of the proposed ordinance that a city councilor has presented to balikbayans in a bid to make them invest in a business in the city. To fast track his plans, Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo…
MANAOAG – The former municipal treasurer here was given a final ultimatum to return P1.4 million of missing funds or face criminal prosecution. Councilor Jeremy Rosario said Mrs. Merlita Soriano failed to meet the February deadline given her to return the funds she reportedly absconded with. Although Mayor Napoleon Sales…
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