Isidro Ramos 20 April 2008 It’s not hard to agree with you in your latest article, Mr. Duque, about a Philippine Congressional group going to Africa to attend a world conference on fighting poverty when paucity is right here at home staring them in the face. Here’s an…
Jose Ceralde 20 April 2008 It is well known that Canadians are known for their respect for human rights in the world. They do not go for the modern head chopping today. Some time ago they were concerned of the political killings in the Philippines. Here is what…
The Dagupan City government is not one to be taken seriously. This appears to be the sentiment among the illegal fish pen owners who were repeatedly warned to tear down their contraptions in the past because their pens remain untouched. But the good news is they stopped stocking their pens…
TO HONOR ANDA’S ANCIENT PAST ANDA–Elephants in Anda? Definitely, says Anda Mayor Nestor Pulido as he slammed his critics who chided his efforts to promote the culture and the arts on the island by building elephant statues. Pulido said elephants are part of the ancient history of Anda as verified…
URDANETA—Although a leading rice producer in the province, this city is not taking the looming rice crisis lightly with the traditional lean months ahead. Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. met with farmer leaders last week to personally urge them to save part of their produce for the lean months even as…
Lucio Tan, one of the country’s taipans, is now an adopted son of Pangasinan after he was conferred Doctor of Humanities in Business and Entrepreneurship, honoris causa, by the Lyceum Northwestern University (LNU) in Dagupan City, Wednesday. Tan, who leads more than 30 companies comprising the Lucio C. Tan Group…
STA. BARBARA—The new Maramba Bridge, a vital link between the poblacion here and Calasiao, is set for completion by early December this year in time for the town’s fiesta. Although work on the project has just resumed after being suspended for almost a month, Municipal Administrator Albertini de Guzman assured…
SISON—The next election is still more than two years away but talks are already rife that this town’s mayor, Kimi Cojuangco, is already being groomed to succeed her husband, Mark Cojuangco, as congressional representative for the 5th District. “It’s still an undecided thing… although there is a clamor,” the mayor…
LINGAYEN-Notwithstanding several high profile crimes remaining unresolved, Senior Superintendent Isagani Nerez, police provincial director, assured that the crime situation in the province in stable and manageable. Reporting before the Provincial Development Council meeting Monday presided by Governor Amado Espino Jr., Nerez said “the number of crimes decreased by 114 in…
STA.BARBARA–Barangay Leet here, a self-sufficient agrarian reform community, will soon receive P20 million worth of post-harvest facility for corn from the Department of Agriculture (DA). Albertini de Guzman, municipal administrator, said the project will include a warehouse and equipment for processing the corn harvest in this town where more than…
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