Sportsfest in Bangus Festival By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. NO doubt that the city of Dagupan is the bangus capital of the world. Our government officials, then and now, are doing their utmost to promote this milkfish worldwide. The city government even tried and was successful in breaking the world’s…
SINCE NERI WON’T TALK Cruz: Mass-forum was good By Ermin Garcia Jr. IF CHED chair Romulo Neri continues to invoke executive privilege and won’t answer crucial questions about President Gloria Arroyo’s instructions and reactions regarding the national broadband deal, Engr. Jun Lozada will provide the answers. This was the assurance…
BEFORE whistle-blower Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada and his entourage of volunteers and nuns arrived in Dagupan City late Friday morning, the counsel of former Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos has already pitched camp in the city earlier meeting with allies of the Arroyo government. “Wherever Lozada goes, I will be…
LINGAYEN— Believe us…there is no shortage in the province. This assurance is oft- repeated by the National Food Authority’s (NFA) local office in the face of fears of rice shortage across the country. Edilberto Libatique, manager of the NFA office here, said there are 88,000 bags at 50 kilograms each…
SOME 100 owners of picnic sheds at Tondaligan Park have been given by the city government another grace period to settle their arrears in business taxes amounting to P1.7 million as of February 2008. City Engineer Virginia Rosario said Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. himself set the new grace period after…
THE search is on for the most “beautiful” bangus in Pangasinan. Dagupan City Councilor Lino Fernandez, chairman of the committee for the Bangus Rodeo of the 2008 Bangus Festival, called on all bangus raisers in the province to bring their “biggest, heaviest, longest and most beautiful” bangus on April 29…
ALAMINOS CITY—The memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the ferry project within the Lingayen Gulf between this city and the cities of Dagupan and San Fernando in La Union was signed on March 31 at the Welcome House at Lucap Wharf here. The MOA was signed by Alaminos City Mayor Hernani…
MAYOR Alipio Fernandez Jr. has expressed full support for the development of a Chinatown in Dagupan as proposed by the city’s Filipino-Chinese community. “I am open to the idea because it will be a big boon to the city,” Fernandez said even as he pointed out that he and members…
URDANETA CITY—An initial P50,000 reward has been raised by the Rotary Club of Urdaneta North (RCUN) for information that could lead to the arrest of the killer of a bank manager here, a Rotarian herself. Superintendent Jimili Macaraeg, city police chief, said RCUN, through its president Bryan Sison, offered the…
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