Here’s another option for a “Deal or No-Deal” agreement between the city hall and the city council. This time, the proposal on the table is “Rent one, Take Two” at the almost empty second floor of the Malimgas Public Market. This was proposed as an alternative compromise by city hall…
ARCHBISHOP Oscar Cruz of the Lingayen-Dagupan archdiocese threw his support behind those who passed the 2006 Board Examinations for Nurses when he officiated in a prayer-rally held at the Dagupan City Plaza last Monday. An arch critic of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Cruz wondered why all the passers are being punished,…
THE University of Luzon scored twin victories! Its College of Criminology was granted Level III status and its basketball team and pride, the Golden Tigers, won the championship round of the 2006 PRISAA Inter-Collegiate Invitational Basketball Championship. The UL’s first victory was in academics after the Philippine Association of Colleges…
TOPNOTCHER SAYS “NO RETAKE” — Gringo San Diego, topnotcher of the 2006 Board Examination for Nurses from the University of Pangasinan, cries for justice and fair play as he denounced a decision by Malacañang requiring the successful examinees to retake the exams during a prayer-rally organized by New Nurses Alliance,…
ANGRY NURSES —The group of nurses in Pangasinan who passed the 2006 examinations roll out their streamer protesting the decision of the government to require them to do a retake of the 2006 Licensure Examination for Nurses during their prayer-rally and vigil at the Dagupan City plaza last Sunday officiated…
FINISHING TOUCHES — A laborer applies the pyroplastic center lane on the Mayombo-Caranglaan road in Dagupan City prior to the completion of the project. The road is one of three roads in the city s chosen for the P29 million asphalt overlay project being undertaken by the contractor, Oriental Construction…
OFFICIAL CAR FOR SHOPPING — Thanks to camera-equipped cellphones, another Punch reader caught a government-issued car with plate number SFH-255 parked inside the Nepo Mall in Dagupan City at 2:10 pm of October 11, 2006. Evidently, this government official found the government-issued car convenient for shopping. Paging the Ombudsman!
BAYAMBANG – The provincial board will begin conducting a series of public hearings in this town this Friday, October 20 on the proposed sanitary landfill to be constructed in a 33-hectare lot in barangay Dusoc here. Provincial board members decided to conduct the hearing in the town to find out…
SAN JACINTO – The police are set to stop the operation of the “peryahan” in the poblacion in response to numerous complaints coming from parents that its operation has contributed to the worsening truancy among school children. Chief Inspector Ferdinand de Asis, chief of police here, said the operation of…
LINGAYEN – A cashier of the Bayambang District Hospital is now in hot water after a special audit found her cash count short by P482,000. Hospital cashier Josefina de Guzman was given by the Commission on Audit up to October 10 to restitute the amount till October 10 and it…
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