Ready for the Talong Festival By Eva C. Visperas This agricultural town, Villasis, known as the “Vegetable Bowl of Pangasinan”, is ready to stage its second Talong Festival on January 19 in time for the town’s 200th year foundation and town fiesta celebration. Mayor Nonato Abrenica told this corner and…
Junked rice breeding material turns out to be an asset By Sosimo Ma. Pablico Junks may not be totally useless if something is done to make them beneficial to man. One good example is the improved IR58025B where the IRBB lines of IRRI [International Rice Research Institute] were used as…
Reformist, Nationalist, Populist By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D. There are marked indications that the 2004 midterm elections are key to the future of this country. Since the texture of the present administration there is an on-going long litany of big socio-moral reversals and scandals with their consequent ugly and…
Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz has sounded the alarm over reports of warlord politicians organizing the private armies for the May 2007 local and national elections. “I have already heard that a good number of traditional politicians have already revived their private armies”, Cruz told The PUNCH. The influential church leader,…
So what else is new? In its first regular session for the year 2007, the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) again adjourned without discussing an item in its agenda after failing muster a quorum. Vice Mayor and SP presiding officer Alvin Fernandez came early as usual, and those who answered…
‘BILLION PESO’ RACKET UNDER PROBE Prominent families included in the list If the list compiled by the former parks administrator of Tondaligan Park is to be believed, the city’s shoreline is already owned not by the city but some of the city’s prominent families. At least 170 persons and entities…
MAGSAYSAY PARK BID TWO weeks after the resolution was passed by the city council authorizing the project, Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez has exposed more loopholes in the controversial bidding for the development of a tourism building at the former Magsaysay Park to indicate a failed bidding. But this will still…
SAN FERNANDO CITY–The police have started its campaign against the resurgence of politicians’ private armies. Four persons, one of them a wanted man, were recently arrested and several high-powered firearms and ammunitions were seized in Pangasinan in connection with the preemptive moves against the emergence of private armed groups in…
DRIVERS and operators of public utility jeepneys in Pangasinan, who claimed to have been deprived of their income for years on account of the enforcement of traffic ordinances enacted in 2005 and 2002, have filed a civil case against Mayor Benjamin Lim and members of the city council. The case…
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