Lessons Unlearned By Emmanuelle Do not be a glutton; eat only what is enough to relieve your hunger. Chew your food well. There is always time for everything, everyone; all it takes is proper time management; patience, too. Love your neighbor as you love yourself; better still, love them as…
AFTER DEFENDING PROJECT Baraan charges CE withheld build permit After submitting an unsigned report defending the planned construction of a tourism structure at the Magsaysay Park, Councilor Teofilo Guadiz III has made a surprise turnaround and said the project is “illegal by itself”. Guadiz prepared the committee report supporting the…
IT ain’t over till it’s over. This appears to be the case with Congresswoman-elect Rachel Arenas of the Third District, a political neophyte, who is poised to face another political battle after her two losing rivals filed separate protest cases against her victory before the House of Representatives Electoral Tribunal…
ALAMINOS CITY–Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures. So goes one popular saying among environment-conscious travelers. And four people, three of whom are tourists and one a resident, learned this lesson the hard way. They were arrested separately by the city’s police and officials of the Public Order and…
GUNS-for-hire struck again early Thursday, killing a businessman and a passenger-van operator inside the premises of a motor repair shop on Jose R. de Venecia Highway in Lucao, Dagupan City. Police investigators are looking into a business rivalry as the possible motive for the killing. Apparently, keen rivalry and power…
THE first flood response and evacuation drill conducted last Thursday by the City Disaster Coordinating Council (CDCC) headed by outgoing Mayor Benjamin Lim was hailed a success. Held as part of the city’s implementation of Project PROMISE (Program for Hydro-Meteorological Disaster Mitigation in Secondary Cities in Asia), the exercise took…
FORMER STO. Tomas Mayor Antonio Villar Jr. has been appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the country’s new anti-smuggling czar. Villar, currently undersecretary for Local Governance, was named to head the newly-formed Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG) under the Office of the President. His appointment as Presidential Assistant For Anti-Smuggling with…
LINGAYEN–Various Muslim communities across Pangasinan, the provincial police and local government leaders have signed an agreement promising to fight lawlessness in their respective towns or cities. Senior Superintendent Isagani Nerez, provincial police director, lauded the covenant signed Tuesday at the police provincial headquarters here, saying “This will lead to a…
TOO late but it is better than never. This was the general sentiment over a recent order of Department of Public Works and Highways Regional Director Fidel Ginez to his men in the field to undertake an all-out cleaning of drainage canals in preparation for the rainy season which…
ANOTHER pedestrian overpass is now being constructed in Dagupan City. This time on Arellano Street, in front of Colegio de Dagupan and Nepo Mall. Department of Public Works and Highways Regional Director Fidel Ginez said work for the P4.5 million overpass has finally started following the delay brought about by…
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