IS reconciliation now in the offing for House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and Mayor Benjamin Lim of Dagupan City? This possibility arose when both politicians finally came face-to-face Wednesday during the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Pantal bridge presided over by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The crowd at the ceremony…
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo led dignitaries and local officials last Wednesday at the groundbreaking ceremony for the P903 million Pantal bridge and thanked the Japanese government for making the project possible by bankrolling it. The President was joined by Japanese Ambassador Ryuchiro Yamazaki, Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and Public Works…
TAYUG – Let the decision and the complaint speak for themselves. This summed up Regional Trial Court Judge Ulysses Butuyan’s reply to the administrative case filed against him before the Supreme Court. In the one-page comment on the complaint filed by Renerio Paas, husband of the late Pasay City Judge…
URDANETA CITY – Employees of the city government heaved a sigh of relief when they learned that the Sangguniang Panlungsod shelved its plan to implement a retrenchment program. Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. confirmed that the members of the SP had a change of heart on the retrenchment plan in consideration…
FOR DAGUPAN BANGUS PROCESSING PLANT The bangus processing plant project as envisioned by Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim is still on, at least as far as Speaker Jose de Venecia is concerned. The speaker recently announced that the South Korean government has assured him it will provide a $2 million…
INVESTMENTS in Pangasinan increased during the first semester of this year compared to the same period last year but the number of employment generated was less. Records of the Department of Trade and Industry showed that from January to June this year, the total generated investment for the first six…
IT hasn’t rained in the city over the week but residents of Dagupan’s Dior Village as well as businessmen on Arellano Street have complained that the flooding in their area has been getting worse by the day. They had called on the Department of Public Works and Highways and the…
Only 17 of the 112 registered Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) from the Ilocos region who were deployed to Lebanon from January to July this year have returned so far. According to Philippine Overseas Employment Administration’s Ferdinand Merrera, Attorney II of the POEA’s Regional Center for Luzon based in San Fernando…
SAN JACINTO – The local police here are confident that the series of cable and electric wire theft in the town will now be a thing of the past. P/Chief Inspector Ferdinand de Asis, police chief here, expressed the town’s confidence after effecting a close collaboration among the police, the…
LINGAYEN – All’s well between us. This was stressed by Vice Gov. Oscar Lambino amid reports that he and Gov. Victor Agbayani are not on speaking terms. He was adamant that he has no misunderstanding with Gov. Victor Agbayani but that there are intrigues constantly sown by certain people to…
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