FOR DAGUPAN FLOODs Exec admits 20% of water from dam flows here Whether the San Roque Multi-Purpose Project indeed causes the flooding in Dagupan City, will soon be determined if and when the city government files a class suit against it. The prospect of a class suit arose when an…
URDANETA – Were mother and child killed before they were allegedly burned inside their nipa hut in barangay Ultama last week? The angle of foul play is being eyed by Urdaneta City Fire Marshal F/Chief Inspector Ernesto Gandia after the victims were found casually lying side by side on their…
Thousands came for what may have appeared as a political rally for Speaker Jose de Venecia in preparation for the 2007 congressional race but they actually came for another reason – to receive the free PhilHealth cards. The occasion wasthe distribution of Philippine Health Insurance Corp. cards to indigents and…
VILLASIS – Two policemen tried to kill another fellow policeman but it was the two who ended up dead. Chief Inspector Jimmy Agtarap confirmed that PO1 James Lu, a resident of barangay Nancayasan, Urdaneta City and assigned in Camp Crame and his companion PO2 Ronaldo Esteban, 34, a resident of…
AFTER a failed to attempt to unseat Barangay Chairman Eric Muñoz as local Liga president, some 15 barangay captains are reportedly willing to withdraw their signatures from the petition. This appeared certain following the visit of to Dagupan of National President of the Liga ng mga Barangay in the Philippines…
IN recognition of her long hard work in charity and being a patroness of the arts and culture, philanthropist Rosemary ‘Baby’ Arenas efforts were formally acknowledged by the Lyceum-Northwestern University. Last Tuesday afternoon, the LNU’s Board of Trustees awarded Ms. Arenas a doctorate degree in humanities, honoris causa. “I am…
MANGALDAN – Giving credit where it is due appears to be the underlying issue behind the problem now facing the town’s vice mayor. It’s all about a school fence. Vice Mayor Berex Abalos was sought by the school’s officials and original donors to explain why the school fence in barangay…
SAN CARLOS – “It is not true”. This was the claim of an official of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology here to the charge that they always serve the same recycled food to the inmates. SJO2 Rodolfo Lavarias, chief supervisor of the BJMP here, said on the contrary,…
LAOAC – The war between members of the municipal council and the municipal mayor here may have begun more than a year before the 2007 election. It reportedly started when Mayor Gregorio Tabayoyong was poised to stop the regular “development fund” (a.k.a “pork barrel”) of members of the municipal council,…
DAGUPAN CITY – With more revenues expected to be generated by the E-VAT, the congressmen now deserve to see their pork barrel restored to their original level. This was the clarification issued by House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. on the charge that the additional P20 million pork barrel for…
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