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SAN FABIAN – Obviously stung by speculations that some elements in the Arroyo government are behind the spate of assassination of journalists and left-wing activists that remain unsolved to date, the chief of the Philippine National Police categorically belied the suspicions. In an interview with the local media, Director-General Arturo…
MULTI-MILLION PESO FLOODWAY Sec. Ebdane irked by60-th mahogany trees BAUTISTA – The Department of Public Works and Highways has confirmed it is revising the plans for its multi-million peso 11.9-kilometer floodway between Bautista and Alcala towns. Reason? It can not meet the new demands of landowners seeking higher compensation…
FINALLY, may just be a light at the end of the tunnel on the fraternities’ row. Councilor Teofilo Guadiz III expressed his readiness to sponsor an ordinance in the Sangguniang Panlungsod to regulate fraternities in the city but clarified that it is not to ban these as this is a…
NEW COMELEC COMMISSIONER BINMALEY – Pangasinan leaders hailed the appointment of former Sandiganbayan Justice Nicodemo Ferrer as a commissioner of the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Mayor Simplicio Rosario said his townmates share his jubilation over President Gloria Arroyo’s appointment of Ferrer who hails from Mabini Street of this town. He…
A city hall official defended Councilor Nicanor Aquino from the charge that he refuses to account for the monies he received from donors, sponsors and the city government for the Bangus Festival last April. Emi Bamba, executive officer of Mayor Benjamin Lim, said the councilor has asked that he be…
Christmas came for some 20,000 Grades I and 2 public school pupils in the fourth district of Pangasinan this month. House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. gifted them with free school supplies consisting of notebooks, paper pads, pencil, erasers, rulers and crayons. De Venecia personally turned over these schools supplies…
SAN FABIAN – Two weeks before he finally retires as chief of the Philippine National Police, Director-general Arturo Lomibao talked to his fellow Pangasinenses. “I would like to believe that as your chief PNP, I did my best,” he intoned. Lomibao, who will retire on July 5, was…
DAGUPAN CITY – The police’s buzz word on the illegal numbers and ameneng appears to “deny the presence until you die.” Despite the official denial of the police of the existence of jueteng and ameneng in the city, many residents and barangay confirm their presence in the city. …
IT was all a baseless rumor. Dagupan City Health Officer Dr. Leonard Carbonell made this clarification after a rumor spread that some six residents of barangay Tapuac were found to be suffering from it. Tapuac Barangay Captain Jake Reyes himself was incredulous and said there was not a…
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