Lingayen – Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz has warned against the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Bill, describing it as a “very dangerous bill” when passed at this time. Cruz said he fears that anybody who is critical of the administration, who will go on rallies and marches against the administration can…
MAYOR Benjamin Lim has urged all members of the private sector to help the city of Dagupan realize its vision to become a premier center of Northern Luzon Region by year 2030. In a talk with members of the private sector during a two-day consultative working session on Public Governance…
ALAMINOS CITY – A woman tagged as the ‘drug queen’ of Western Pangasinan was sentenced to life imprisonment in a decision handed down last Wednesday by Regional Trial Court, Branch 54 here. RTC Judge Jules Mejia penned the 28-page decision sentencing Delia Casipit who earned the monicker ‘shabu’ queen in…
THERE is an outbreak of a different type of fever in the province – the 2007 local election fever. Surveys are now being conducted by various political groups to determine who would likely be the favorites for the local posts, particularly the governorship. The results of two surveys (the first…
LEAVE us alone. This was the sharp retort of Liga ng mga Barangay president Eric Muñoz to Mayor Benjamin Lim who wrote the former last week urging him to settle the discord within the ranks of their organization. In his letter to the mayor, Muñoz asked Lim to allow him…
THE SHORTER BRIDGE FIRST – Workers now put finishing touches to the approach to the newly-built concrete bridge along the still unfinished Dawel-Pantal road, a far shorter bridge compared to the P903 million new Pantal bridge whose construction has already started. (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
NEW CHAPEL – Congressman Conrado Estrella III and Engr. Rosendo So, president of the Eastern Pangasinan Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce, cut the inaugural ribbon for the newly constructed chapel of Camp Narciso Ramos in Tayug last September 15. Also in photo are P/Supt. Ruben Catabona (left), group director of the…
JDV MEDICAL MISSION–Residents of barangay Malued in Dagupan are attended to by personnel of the Region I Medical Center participating in a free medical mission of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., using the mobile JDV Diagnostic Center. The weekly medical mission provides medical and dental services, medicines, laboratory, x-ray…
Some sixteen “barkers” won’t be barking any time soon. They were apprehended and issued warnings by the Public Order and Safety Office last Thursday for violating a city ordinance prohibiting anyone to call passengers to board a particular jeepney whether it’s in designated loading and unloading area in the city….
TAYUG – A bodyguard of a former town mayor was sentenced to life imprisonment for the gunslaying of a former policeman in Umingan town. In a 13-page decision promulgated Sept. 19, 2006, Judge Ulysses Raciles Butuyan of the regional trial court branch 51 sentenced the accused, Esteban Navarrete, 40, of…
© 2024 Sunday Punch. Dagupan.
