THE city council on Monday passed a resolution inquiring from the owners of the burned Bugnay Market if the missing tons of steel bars and trusses are in their possession. Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez said the resolution was addressed to Don Manolo Lim Uy, president and chairman of the Board…
THE ruling Lakas party in Pangasinan is in rocky waters. Vice Governor Oscar Lambino, Lakas provincial chairman, and several local officials have raised their voice of disapproval against Governor Victor Agbayani’s “indiscriminate recruitment of new Lakas party members” whom they suspect will be fielded to run against incumbent administration party…
Close on the heels of the still unsettled issue on towing services, the Dagupan city hall finds itself enmeshed in another controversy. This time it’s the collection of P2,500 Resource Users Deposit (RUD) which is not provided for in the Comprehensive Fishery Code, series of 2003. Councilors Michael Fernandez, Danilo…
NO, this is not about the hottest showbiz scandal of recent days. This story on “hope” involves a man of the cloth and a senatorial candidate. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, a staunch critic of the Arroyo administration, was visited Tuesday at the Archbishops’ Palace by senatorial candidate Panfilo “Ping” Lacson…
WHO says that Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. will no longer be backed by Malacañang in his reelection bid for a third and final term of office as congressman of the fourth district of Pangasinan? No less than President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo called Speaker de Venecia “my most important ally”…
TAYUG—The Regional Trial Court has acquitted a councilor of San Quintin and his policeman cousin who were accused of attempted murder on the complaint of a police superintendent from the town. Acquitted in a decision penned by Judge Emma Ines-Parajas of Branch 52 here were Councilor Leonardo Liwanag, a former…
TAYUG—The Supreme Court (SC) has dismissed the administrative complaint filed against Regional Trial Court Judge Ulysses Raciles Butuyan by the widower of the late Pasay City Judge Estrelita Paas who was murdered in their home in Natividad in 2005. This was contained in a communication dated January 24, 2006 from…
FIRE PREVENTION MONTH City Fire Marshall F/Sr. Insp. Reynaldo Mina expressed confidence that his station and men are ready to respond to any fire that may happen within his area jurisdiction as well as neighboring localities. The local fire department recently held a motorcade in observance of the Fire Prevention…
“Don’t steal the scene” This was the advice of Georgina “Gina” de Venecia, wife of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. to wives of senatorial bets as the campaign heats up. “Huwag ninyong agawin ang eksena ng inyong asawa (Do not steal the scene from husband).” Mrs. De Venecia, whom…
ALAMINOS CITY — There’s no place like home. Anchored on this truism commonly embraced by people who go out of the country to seek greener pastures and return for a vacation, this city will hold a month-long grand reunion for Alaminians from places all over the world dubbed as “Visit…
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