Deja vu I. Known you before! By Emmanuelle From birth to the eighth year of their young lives, they weren’t aware the other even existed. They grew and lived in towns or provinces or even oceans apart; they had distinctly different kinds of world; they grew up with the most…
ELECTION PERIOD KICKS OFF JAN. 14 THREE towns and one city in Pangasinan have been tagged by the Provincial Elections Office this early as possible hot spots in the May national and local elections with the possibility that one of those towns could be placed under Commission on Elections (Comelec)…
VICE Mayor Alvin Fernandez still insists that a re-bidding be conducted on the Magsaysay Park project to clear all questions surrounding the earlier bidding and erase all doubts over the legality and qualification of the winning bidder. He made the call anew in his website posted on Friday even if…
A government employee who invoked a bureaucratic administrative policy before doing his job has found himself charged instead with insubordination. Dr. Benjamin Marcial Bautista, a rural health physician and a medico-legal has been slapped with an administrative case of insubordination after he refused to conduct an autopsy on the three…
LINGAYEN–Help is finally on the way. Governor Victor Agbayani has assured help to the families of fishermen whose motorboats were capsized by huge waves off the high seas in Scarborough Shoal at the South China Sea on December 16, 2006. Agbayani said the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO)…
AT least 157 people in various parts of the province were injured from firecrackers at the height of the celebration on New Year’s Eve, a report of the Department of Health (DOH) Region 1 based in La Union said. Based on the report, Dagupan City registered the most number of…
RE-ELECTION as mayor or a re-taking of the congressional seat? Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim said he is still awaiting the result of a survey he commissioned before deciding which position he will aspire for in the May election. Asked by one of the 16 barangay chairmen who paid a courtesy…
FIRST WALKWAY OVERPASS IN PANGASINAN—Students walk past the steel structures erected for the first ever overpass in Pangasinan being built in front of the Dagupan City National High School. The walkway, funded by the Countrywide Development Fund of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., is one of five similar infrastructures…
NEW YEAR’S DAY FIRE—Superintendent Edgar Basbas (left), standing on top of the roof of one house, watches two firemen train their hoses at the houses that caught fire at noon of New Year’s Day in barangay Pantal in Dagupan City due to firecracker explosion. – (Punchphpoto by Ray Zambrano)
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