BLACK PROPAGANDA BLAMED China funding eyed instead URDANETA CITY—It’s goodbye finally to the proposed P2.5 billion re-regulating pond below the San Roque Multi-Purpose Project in San Manuel after the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) had a change of heart. National Irrigation Administration (NIA) Regional Director John Celeste confirmed that…

Open sesame! This was the call made last week by members of the Dagupan City council who, like the rest of the citizenry in the city, have become excited yet anxious over the continued delay in the opening of the Dawel-Pantal-Lucao Road to the vehicular traffic. Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo,…

THIS year’s Bangus Festival scored the highest in visitor arrivals and boosted revenues of big and small business establishments in the city. Dagupan Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, who chaired the executive committee for the celebration, said the business sector reported brisk sales and increased revenues for the duration of the…

Senator Rodolfo Biazon, who visited Umingan town on May 2, said he is initiating a Senate inquiry on the delay of the construction of the irrigation component of the San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam. “I’m going to ask irrigators why San Roque Dam has not delivered the irrigation component,” Biazon said….

POZORRUBIO—The University of Luzon is opening a new campus here in June, offering the usual regular college courses and DepEd’s pet project of a ladderized education. UL officials said evening and weekend classes for graduate and post-graduate courses may also be introduced later. The Samson-Reyna clan, majority stockholders of the…

LINGAYEN–The fiesta fever is on. So how about one for celebrating bagoong and bucayo? A festival revolution continues to catch fire in Pangasinan after the very successful staging of the Dagupan Bangus Festival and the Puto Festival in Calasiao. Refusing to be left out, capital town Lingayen is now planning…