By Analiza Q. Leyba Baniqued: Poles, transformers subject of RPT A protracted legal battle between the Dagupan City government and the Dagupan Electric Corporation looms ahead after the city government filed a counterclaim in response to the civil case recently filed by the electric company. The issue at hand is…
The northern part of the country is targeted to be developed into the North Luzon Agribusiness Quadrangle “Super Region” to become the food basket not only in the Philippines but also North Asia. This was disclosed by Secretary and Presidential Management Staff director general Arthur Yap when he presided over…
Sec. Yap outlines ‘Super Region’ potentials
LINGAYEN – The dreaded dengue hemorrhagic fever has already claimed nine lives in different towns and cities in this province since July to date. Records of the Provincial Health Office showed there were three fatalities, one each in the towns of Basista, Sison and Alaminos City in the month of…
DOH warns vs. rise of dengue cases
When it rains, it certainly pours for the Dagupan City government. THE cash-strapped city government has had to shelve its reorganization plan owing to lack of funds but its problems are still far from over because its employees are now requesting the payment of their additional compensation (adcom) allowance due…
Workers seek delayed adcom
WHO KNOWS BETTER? – Ramon Versa (right), chief of operations and control of the San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC), maintains previous statement before the Sangguning Panlungsod of Dagupan that 20 per cent of the water being released downstream of the Agno river from the dam’s spillways goes out through a…
WHO KNOWS BETTER?
Is it possible that officials of the San Roque Power Corporation that manages the San Roque Multi-Purpose Project don’t really know much about its operations? This became evident when two of its key officials issued contradicting statements about the direction of water spilled downstream from the dam when the latter’s…
Conflicting views betray SRPC
THE police and the barangay captains in Dagupan City vehemently denied that jueteng has resumed operations in the city just like the rest of Pangasinan. Supt. Edgar Basbas, police chief here, branded as ridiculous the accusation leveled against his office that it is tolerating jueteng operation and maintained that there…
No jueteng – cop chief, 11 barangay captains
TAYUG – The media, or the ‘Fourth Estate’, remains the strongest bastion of democratic freedom, according to Vice Gov. Oscar Lambino who spoke before 200 student journalists in a two-day seminar at the Luna Colleges here. “The power of media to shape and influence people’s lives, the affairs of nations,…
Lambino cites role of campus writers in RP’s global reach
SAN CARLOS CITY – While some parts of Dagupan City complain of incessant flooding the past weeks, San Carlos boasts the city has been flood- free, thanks to its project “Six-in- One”. Mayor Jolly Resuello said the project being undertaken by the city government along the Rio Laguna de Vega…
Resuello’s dredging ‘miracles’
LINGAYEN – Provincial Board Member Danny Uy expressed his opposition to the call for the unification of Pangasinan Division I and II. Uy voiced out his sentiment against the resolution proposed by his colleague, Romeo Dadacay, asking the Department of Education to merge Division I and II to save on…