ON ASPHALT-OVERLAY PROJECTS Lim-JdV feud heats up THE Department of Public Works and Highways district office belied charges of the Dagupan City government that it did not coordinate with the latter before implementing P29 million worth of asphalt overlay projects in the city. Second Highway District Engineer Rodolfo Dion showed…
DPWH belies claim of no coordination
DAGUPAN CITY – The law purportedly aimed at eliminating jueteng is inutile since it is not being enforced. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, chairman of Krusada ng Bayan Laban sa Sugal, said Republic Act Number 9287, the law increasing the penalties for the illegal numbers game called jueteng, “proved futile and…
Anti-gambling law is inutile – Archbishop Cruz
DAGUPAN CITY – A visibly impressed head of state left the province with novel ideas etched on his mind for his implementation in his own country. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, who made his historic visit here Sunday with a fun-filled day tour around…
BFAR impresses E. Guinea President
ALAMINOS CITY – An Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) who came home last May 6 seriously injured and paralyzed finally died Thursday in their home in barangay Bisocol here. Thus, ended the struggle of Jennifer Perez, 24, to survive from the injuries she suffered when she fell from the second floor…
Alaminos mourns OFW’s demise
Dagupan Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez said the Sangguniang Panlungsod cannot and will not enact an ordinance that will ban fraternities in the city. “The people’s right to form lawful associations or societies is clearly enshrined in the Bill of Rights of the Constitution,” Fernandez said. The vice mayor reacted to…
Alvin: SP cannot ban frats in city
DAGUPAN CITY – The fact- finding mission formed by Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) to probe the gunslaying of its secretary-general in Pangasinan on May 16 showed that the assassination was part of widespread political killings being perpetrated in the country. Jose Doton, 62, of San Nicolas town who was…
Still no clear motive behind Doton’s slay
STA. BARBARA – Some 2,000 hectares of rice lands in twenty-four towns in the province are found to be zinc-deficient which explains the 25-30 percent decline in annual yield. Provincial Agriculturist Jose Almedares said that a study made by the Bureau of Soil and Water Management revealed that the towns…
Farmlands are zinc-deficient
LINGAYEN – On paper, the provincial government has responded to the clamor of its employees for higher wages to cope with the higher cost of living. It gave the go-signal for the release of additional P1,000 in compensation allowance retroactive to January this year. But Governor Victor Agbayani, in his…
