DESPITE REQUEST FOR POSTPONEMENT LINGAYEN–Life must go on, especially for the children. So classes in Cosme-ravaged Pangasinan will re-open as originally scheduled on June 10 with rehabilitation work on damaged schools in full blast, according to Dr. Alma Ruby Torio, schools division superintendent of Pangasinan Division 1. “Tuloy ang opening…
THE city government’s efforts to regain ownership of the 30-hectare lot in San Jacinto town that was placed under the compulsory coverage of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP), continue. The city legal office recently submitted to the Department of Agrarian Reform all the documentary evidence it had in connection…
BINMALEY–Sans any fanfare and politics, Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay arrived here on Friday to distribute P100,000 worth of relief goods to Binmaley and 19 other towns and cities badly hit by super Typhoon Cosme. Binay, a personal friend of Binmaley Mayor Simplicio Rosario, said he responded to the request for…
URBIZTONDO-The municipal mayor here is facing a case for violation of the anti-graft and corrupt practices act before the Office of the Ombudsman in a criminal complaint filed by a private citizen. The complaint of one Milagros Mondero against Mayor Ernesto Balolong Jr., subscribed and sworn before Assistant Provincial Prosecutor…
SAN CARLOS CITY–Still in the dark. More than two weeks after typhoon Cosme hit the province, about 70 to 80 percent of the affected areas in central and western Pangasinan are still without electricity. The Central Pangasinan Electric Corporation (Cenpelco), sole distributor of electricity in the central part of…
The National Transmission Corporation (TransCo) said in a press statement that it has restored power to all its customers on Wednesday following the repair and energization of its facilities damaged by tropical storm “Cosme.” Transco said it successfully re-energized the latest remaining line, the Binmaley 2-San Carlos 69-kV line in…
Not one of the officials and staff at the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Dagupan was spared from a total revamp following an escape and a riot among inmates. All the 19 personnel of the city’s jail have been sent for retraining at the BJMP headquarters…
The alarm has been sounded for a possible diarrhea epidemic by the Dagupan City Health Office after 88 Dagupeños have been recorded as afflicted, 22 of whom have been hospitalized. Water testing conducted by government centers in 126 areas in 31 barangays showed the presence of e.coli in 12 barangays….
LINGAYEN–With the high cost of rehabilitation work ahead following the extensive damage to agriculture and infrastructure estimated at P4.3 billion brought by Typhoon Cosme, the provincial government is seeking an extension of the loan and a moratorium on the payment of its loans to Land Bank of the Philippines. The…
THE Dagupan City Council has asked the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) to crack the whip on fraudulent and substandard review schools operating in the city. A council resolution authored by Councilor Michael Fernandez said no review school operating in the city must be spared from the probe. The body…
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