Halved! By Emmanuelle So, there really is an ending to this, after all. Concluding a non-ending is not as easy as one might think. Might as well un-Chinese a Chinese, but that would still be better than speculating on a spatula. The first is near impossible but probable. The second,…
WITH DEFERRED IRA AS COLLATERAL LINGAYEN — Gov. Amado Espino Jr. entered into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the LandBank of the Philippines (LBP) for a seven-year term loan using the P79-million uncollected Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) of the province as collateral. The loan, Espino said, will boost the…
LINGAYEN—Sixth District Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr., the longest serving board member in the province, has had it as the lone opposition and has joined the bandwagon. In a privilege speech delivered on Monday, Bince announced that he was quitting as minority leader, a role he has held throughout his…
Dagupan City was adjudged one of the 25 top-performing Philippine Cities in Competitive Studies by the Asian Institute of Management (AIM). It was one of ninety cities surveyed by AIM, composed of three categories, namely metro, mid-sized and small, analyzed and evaluated based on dynamism of local economy, infrastructure, human…
Pangasinan, the most populated province in the country, continues to be a big source of potential manpower and major vote strength in national elections. Its population has increased by 7.3% over a 7-year period, from 2.46 million in 2000 to 2.64 million as of August 2007. Based on the latest…
LINGAYEN–Following the President’s expression of discontent over delays in the delivery of promised galvanized iron (GI) sheets, the regional director of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has given assurance of a 60 percent delivery to victims of super typhoon Cosme. A second delivery of 13,000 GI sheets…
Pedro V. Balingit (This article was published in the July 22, 1956 issue of Sunday PUNCH. We are reprinting it here to honor Don Pedro Balingit who marks his 100th birthday this week. “People of Consequence” was the title of the column feature and while no author was named in…
THE city council is set to approve the Sanitation Code of Dagupan by December this year. According to Councilor Jesus Canto, chair of the committee on health and sanitation, the sanitation plan for the city, designed with the help of the Southeast Asia Sustainable Sanitation (SUSIA) program, will soon be…
A CITY official of Dagupan was all praises for President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo for coming to Pangasinan on July 4 to personally check the progress of rehabilitation and reconstruction activities in the province in the aftermath of Typhoon ‘Cosme’. Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, who was acting mayor at the time President…
A female Malaysian, suspected of illegal recruitment operations and large scale estafa, was nabbed on July 8 in the Dagupan City. The suspect, Ong Siew Lian, 49, was brought to Camp Crame in Manila after her arrest by combined elements from the Office of the Vice President, Anti Crime Trans…
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