Tinolang manok By Marifi Jara Quelimane, Mozambique–Eleven weeks ago, as I stood in line to get through the immigration counter at the Mavalane International Airport in Maputo, the capital city of this country, I caught eye contact with an Asian lady in the other line to my right (after that…
Quartered! By Emmanuelle Many had lamented that justice is such a slowpoke in coming, if at all. It takes deliberately small measured steps, and it simply refuses to be hurried along. Interminable is a mild describe of the years it takes before the presiding judge harrumphs a pronouncement. By that…
TREE PLANTING—Coca-Cola System Employees with Mayor Jejomar Binay (center) during the Coca-Cola System Employee Volunteer Day 2008 held June 9 at the Boy Scouts of the Philippines Grounds in Teresa, Rizal. Hundreds of Boy Scouts were also present during the activity undertaken jointly with the BSP.
LINGAYEN–What’s happening? Three councilors murdered, and like other high profile murder cases, remain unsolved. The successive gun slayings of local legislators by still unknown assailants has prompted the Pangasinan Councilors’ League to ask police authorities to double their efforts in resolving the murders.
WINNING TEAM—Dagupan City Coun. Karlos Liberato Reyna receives the championship trophy for the open category basketball event of the Brgy. Bonuan Gueset Summer Sportsfest 2008 from The PUNCH columnist Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. during the awarding ceremony held last Sunday at Brgy. Bonuan Gueset covered court. Tribu team playing-coach and…
BIG DRUG RING NOW IN REGION ONE P/SUPT. Dionicio Borromeo, chief of police of Dagupan, is in hot water for his alleged involvement in a big shabu laboratory that was busted by lawmen in barangay Upper Binmotobot, Naguilian, La Union last July 9. P/Sr Supt Isagani Nerez, Pangasinan police director,…
CONSTRUCTION of the P100 million state-of-the-art Seafood Processing Plant in Dagupan is facing a serious challenge from residents of sitio Russia in barangay Bonuan Binloc who rejected a proposal to vacate the target site of the project. Teddy Vilamil, a member of the technical working group created by Mayor Alipio…
DRIVERS and operators of passenger jeepneys plying Dagupan scored a small moral victory when the city council agreed to hold a 30-day experiment as a compromise on their petition for the suspension of the city’s Comprehensive Traffic Ordinance, particularly on fines for traffic violators. Councilor Alfie Fernandez explained the details…
THE Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) in Dagupan has reason to be alarmed and seriously concerned about health of inmates these days. The facility, designed to hold 100 prisoners, is now home to 357 inmates and still growing. “Based on statistics, there’s already almost 250 percent congestion rate…
BURGOS–Yes, there is life without cellular phones. This is what students of public schools here are finding out while inside school campuses. Mayor Domingo Doctor has ordered a ban on the carrying and use of mobile phones inside all public school campuses in the town as part of an effort…
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