LINGAYEN–The Philippine National Police (PNP) and the Commission on Elections (Comelec) have identified six towns and one city in Pangasinan as “areas of concern” in the coming national and local election. The list was drawn up during a coordinating conference held Friday at the Police Provincial Office presided over by…
A Filipino-American first cousin of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. told the city council Monday that it was really in Dagupan City beach where General Douglas MacArthur landed on November 9, 1945 as the head of the Liberation Forces that freed Luzon from the Japanese invaders. Dr. Guillermo de…
AGUILAR—The town’s mayor who was recently suspended by the Office of the Ombudsman last week along with other local government officials in different parts of the country, has filed a petition for a temporary restraining order (TRO) from the Court of Appeals. Mayor Ricardo Evangelista, who was suspended along with…
A German national arrested by joint elements of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Bureau of Immigration (BI) for two cases of acts of lasciviousness died after he hanged himself inside his detention cell Thursday morning. Lawyer Jose Doloiras, NBI provincial chief based at the NBI district office told…
SAN CARLOS CITY—One of the fresh graduates of the Virgen Milagrosa University Foundation (VMUF) here landed in 9th place among the 19,712 successful examinees in the nurse licensure examination last December 2006. The Board of Nursing of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC), which conducted the nationwide test, identified the 9th…
DESPITE his earlier pronouncement that jueteng money will not affect the elections in May as much as in previous voting exercises following the clamp down on the illegal numbers game, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz still warned against its impact on the outcome of the coming national and local plebiscite. Cruz…
LINGAYEN–The construction of the P970 million new Pantal Bridge, which started late last year, will continue despite the election ban. Second Highway District Engineer Rodolfo Dion said the project is among the many that were exempted from the election ban because it has a definite time frame to follow…
ALL barangay chairmen in Dagupan have been directed to submit their respective Anti-Drug Abuse Plan for 2007 to determine their willingness and sincerity to combat the illegal drug trade in their respective areas. The directive came from Department of Interior and Local Government City Director Expedita Callanta who said the…
TWO brothers are now fighting for their lives at the Region I Medical Center after they were brutally attacked by still unidentified persons in their home in barangay La Consolacion in Urdaneta City on January 15. The victims Rogelio Fonacier, 15, sustained seven stab wounds, and his one-year old brother,…
AS the bird flu virus again rages in some of the Philippine’s Asian neighbors, alert warnings have been raised in the country, but Dr. Jesus Canto, director of the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) based in Dagupan City, assured that they are ready to deal with the deadly germ. He…
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