LINGAYEN–“I had nothing do with that.” Thus said former Dagupan City Administrator RafaelBaraan, finally breaking his silence on the Awai deal issue in which the 30-hectare land bought by Dagupan City in San Jacinto for landfill site was entirely lost to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). Baraan, now provincial…
NATURE may have provided the reason to finally implement the much heralded redevelopment plan of the Tondaligan Park, Dagupan’s biggest park covering 72 hectares at the Bonuan Blue Beach. With about 70% of the standing cottage and picnic sheds, doubling as residential houses and videoke pubs at night, destroyed by…
LINGAYEN–An airport in Alaminos City will be just fine, says Governor Amado Espino Jr. The governor, who had earlier expressed support for the construction of an airport in Sta. Barbara town, has clarified that he is not against the choice of Alaminos as site of an international airport.
CARSON, Califorinia — Pangasinan Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. lamented what he described as Pangasinan’s dismal development betraying its old premier status in his addresses before Pangasinenses during his visit here recently. Addressing twice a large group of Pangasinenses in Lakewood and Carson in Los Angeles country, Espino deplored that…
THE city government finally acts on the daily pollution of the sea water fronting the Dagupan City Jail. With its sewage water flowing to the Lingayen Gulf, the city jail is tagged as one of the biggest polluters of the sea. City Health Officer Leonard Carbonnel confirmed it after he…
A roving salesman was killed after the car he was driving rammed into a concrete post in front of a school in barangay Bolosan here past midnight Thursday. P/Supt. Dionicio Borromeo, Dagupan police chief, identified the fatality as Jimmy Episcope, 33, a resident of the nearby town of Mangaldan and…
THE Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU) and the Department of Health (DOH) signed an agreement Monday to jointly pursue an advocacy campaign promoting public health issues among PACU’s 160-member colleges and universities nationwide. PACU president Gonzalo Duque, brother of Health Secretary Francisco Duque III, told The PUNCH that…
AS the Christmas season nears, parents have been warned not to give their toddlers toys that have lead component, which when ingested could prove to be fatal. Councilor Jesus Canto, chairman on the committee on health and retired director of the Region 1 Medical Center, issued the warning in the…
SAN ROQUE MULTI-PURPOSE DAM LINGAYEN–Was the funding for the irrigation component of the 245-megawatt San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) cancelled? Gov. Amado Espino Jr., who expressed surprise of over the report, said he will seek an official inquiry on the matter even as…
MANAOAG–The Pyramid of Asia, founded and owned by renowned spiritual healer Reverend Alex Orbito, has reopened its doors Tuesday after years of closure. Orbito, who claims to have healed thousands afflicted with various illnesses not just in the Philippines but in many other countries as well, calls the reopening of…
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