A POST-MORTEM Usec Villar comes to her rescue MALASIQUI–Third District Rep. Rachel Arenas expressed her personal pain even as she belied malicious insinuations that money changed hands when congressmen voted on a House resolution declaring the position of House Speaker vacant on Monday. “There was no money involved,” said Arenas,…
EVERYONE agrees the province lost and can lose a lot more following the ouster of 4th District Rep. Jose De Venecia Jr. as House Speaker. Even the Pangasinan congressmen who unexpectedly voted “yes” to the ouster of De Venecia expressed fears that his ouster will affect the delivery of projects…
DAGUPAN City’s hope to recover its 30-hectare land in barangay Awai, San Jacinto, which it lost to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program in 2004, appears to be getting dimmer. The city government admitted it cannot meet the deadline set by the Department of Agrarian Reform to submit a topographical map…
THE construction of the Dawel-Pantal-Lucao road and its bridge component in the middle spanning across the Pantal River will be completed on March 15, six months ahead of its September target. Ruperto Daoana, a representative of the contracting firm Toyo/Tobishima Construction, confirmed on Thursday that “we are 37 days away…
MANGATAREM–Cacaoiten, a remote barangay located in the mountainous area near the boundary of Pangasinan and Tarlac, has been given a $33,516 grant by the Japanese government for the development of a water supply system. The project willprovide 90 households or a population of 500 with access to potable water supply,…
ANDA–Mayor Nestor Pulido, leader of this small island town, is furious. His anger is directed towards members of the municipal council led by Vice Mayor Napoleon Celeste who, Pulido thinks, are asking for an “outrageous and irresponsible” share of the town’s budget. “Do you know that the total you’re asking,…
VILLASIS–The Talong Festival here held every end of January has been officially included in the calendar of the Department of Tourism as one of the major tourism events in the country. “We are happy because we got the nod of the Department of Tourism only after two years of the…
URDANETA CITY –The newly-constructed Urdaneta Livelihood Training Center, which will be offering free skills education to the city’s out-of-school youth as well as adults, will be formally inaugurated on Monday, February 11. The P3.5 million two-storey building will serve as a training venue for home-based business ventures and other skills…
In a bid to correct public impression that the Dagupan police have been remiss in their task in curbing illegal drug trafficking in the city, the Dagupan City police chief maintained that his station contributed the most to the Pangasinan Police Provincial Anti-Drug Operations Task Group’s accomplishments in 2007. Superintendent…
Habitual saliva spitters beware. They can now be slapped with fines ranging from P500 to P2,000 when caught spitting in public areas. This new provision as introduced by Councilor Jesus Canto as an amendment to old ordinance of the Dagupan City Council enacted way back in 1993, was approved by…
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