Mayor Alarcio fetes Gabot and Recodos By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. I APPRECIATE what Laoac Mayor Silverio Alarcio recently did to two homegrown cyclists. The mayor gave recognition awards to former Tour of Luzon champions Rufino Gabot and Gonzalo Recodos on July 5 during the regular Monday flag-raising ceremony. According…
Relax, enjoy a movie By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique–I so miss the movies. It’s one of life’s little luxuries that we don’t get here. There are two movie houses in town, but these have seen better days. And they don’t really show films regularly and on those occasions that they…
COMPANY RUSHES FILLING THE questionable reclamation of a portion of the Calmay River is at the top of the new Sangguniang Panlungsod’s (SP) agenda as it sets out to conduct an inquiry on the matter. Officials of the Environment Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources…
LINGAYEN–Almost a third of the province’s police force have no side arms and it may take another six years before the government can provide for them. Senior Superintendent Percival Barba, police provincial director, bared this when he distributed 53 new short firearms to as many policemen last week.
LINGAYEN–Pangasinan is now an insurgency-free province. This was reported by P/Sr. Supt. Percival Barba, provincial police director, and Philippine Army Brigade Commander Leonido Bongcawil during the presentation of Internal Security Operations to Gov. Amado Espino Jr. and the Joint Declaration of Insurgency Free Province held last week.
WITH the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s (BIR) continuing “Oplan Kandado”, the bureau padlocked on Tuesday three merchandise stores owned by one lady entrepreneur at the downtown area in Dagupan City for failure to pay the right amount of taxes. The establishments, selling mostly goods from China, were simultaneously raided by…
ALAMINOS CITY—This city, home of the well-known Hundred Islands National Park, was conferred the regional 2010 Likas Yaman Award for Environmental Excellence by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). With the award, Alaminos earned the distinction as having the “Best LGU-Initiated Environmental Project ” for its pioneering efforts in the…
THE Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) of Dagupan is recalling tricycle franchises held by non-residents of the city and has taken steps to ensure that the processing will not be marred by fixing or bribery. A poster has been put up at the office of the SP Secretariat at the city hall…
A MAN posing as a city councilor and attempting to extort money from a salon owner was arrested by the police on July 6 in an entrapment operation. Danilo de Vera, 48, of Guiguilonen, Mangaldan, phoned the owner of Salon de Dagupan at 10:00 a.m. that day pretending to be…
SAN Carlos City–Mayor Julier C. Resuello, speaking before the first session of the Sangguniang Panlungsod last week, asked the city councilors to “Let bygones be bygones”. Resuello rallied the SP members to forget about squabbles and partisanship that he said were inevitable during the campaign period. The priority now, the…
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