DAGUPAN CHRISTMAS EVE SHOCKER Police say robbery was motive Can anything ever justify the violent deaths of three hotel staff on Christmas eve over the hotel’s P44,000 cash? The bloody scene in the lobby so shocked the city that the Dagupan police worked overtime to solve the case and eventually…
HOTEL KILLINGS SOLVED — Two of the three principal suspects in the grisly triple murder and one frustrated murder at the Floren Hotel in Dagupan City on Christmas eve, Victor Dalisay (left) and Jhun Jhun Romero, are escorted by members of the SWAT team of the Dagupan Police shortly before…
HOTEL KILLINGS SOLVED
THE debate over the controversial Magsaysay Park deal will continue in the city council and in other venues even if the resolution granting authority to Mayor Benjamin Lim to sign a contract with Metrostate Realty Corporation had already been approved by a vote of 8-3 during a special session last…
Quiz on Magsaysay park deal is far from over
DagupeÑos finally had the opportunity to hear opposition Congressman Alan Peter Cayetano of Taguig-Pateros say in person what they only read, hear and watch on national media. Speaking Wednesday during the Barangay Night of the Dagupan City fiesta, Cayetano expressed his disgust over the determination of the Arroyo administration to…
Cayetano blasts ‘cha-cha’ PGMA, poll computerization
Garci forever By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. There are times when there is uncertainty whether people should jump for joy or cry shamelessly in the presence of a given reality. This is precisely the case of the Garci phenomenon that is once again given prominence in the national consciousness…
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TAYUG — A big group of hog raisers from Pangasinan has called on President Gloria Arroyo to revive the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Task Force and finally stop the rampant smuggling of pork from China (and Hong Kong) to save the country’s P120 billion hog industry from total collapse. The call was…
Hog raisers protest pork smuggling
BOLINAO – People residing along the coastal villages in the province, particularly in the western area, panicked Tuesday night and quickly evacuated to upland areas after an alert was sounded about a possible tsunami hitting the area. Chief Inspector Mario Estrada, police chief of this town, told The PUNCH that…
Villagers flee homes due to tsunami scare
BEATING THE COMELEC DEADLINE—Voters crowd the office of the Commission on Elections at the City Hall in Dagupan City last December 29 for a last chance to register or transfer their registration that will enable them to vote in the May 2007 national and local elections. All Comelec offices throughout…
BEATING THE COMELEC DEADLINE
Fighting back MORE THAN half of the 45 reporters, columnists, editors and publishers, the First Gentleman, Jose Miguel Arroyo, has sued for libel have filed a media class civil suit against him last December 28. The first of its kind in the Philippines, it is a civil as well as…