Joining Le Tour de Filipinas By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. AFTER three weeks of laborious but fruitful and memorable voyage to Uncle Sam’s land last month, I’m here again in Pinas...
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FARMERS, TRADERS UP IN ARMS THE controversial provincial ordinance that increased the real property tax in Pangasinan by 300 to 800 percent suffers legal infirmities and should not have been implemented.
Collection of higher RPT is illegal, say
THOUGH offended by the unstatesmanlike comments of Mayor Benjamin Lim in his partial veto message on the city budget sent on April 1, members of the majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) have decided not to exercise their power to override the veto.
SP will not override partial veto
PANGASINAN’S FIRST SANITARY LANDFILL–A boy is awed by the clinical appearance of the newly inaugurated engineered sanitary landfill of Urdaneta City in Sitio Calegu, Barangay, not exactly his idea of a garbage dumpsite. The landfill, built at a cost of P220 million, was inaugurated on April 8 by President Benigno…
PANGASINAN’S FIRST SANITARY LANDFILL
URDANETA CITY–The first engineered sanitary landfill in Pangasinan and only the second of its kind in Region 1 was inaugurated here last Friday with President Benigno Aquino III hailing the project as a testament to what a local government unit (LGU) can achieve. The President lauded the city government of…
Urdaneta City’s sanitary landfill starts operation
FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM–President Benigno Aquino III (center) thanks Japanese Ambassador Makoto Katsura for Japan’s support for the state-of-the art flood forecasting and warning system of the Philippine Atmospheric and Geo-physical and Astronomical Sciences Administration (PAGASA) in Tumana, Rosales. The occasion was the unveiling of a marker on for the system. Others in photo…
FLOOD WARNING SYSTEM
ROSALES–President Benigno Aquino III inaugurated last Friday the upgraded Agno River Basin Flood Forecasting and Warning System (ARBFFWS), an early warning facility for flooding that will impact on the provinces of Pangasinan and Tarlac. The flood warning system now has improved gauging stations and telecommunication facilities for fast data transmission…
Modern flood warning system inaugurated
ROSALES–Farmers and residents here successfully stopped quarrying and landfilling activities for an eight-kilometer dike-road of the planned Tarlac-Pangasina-La Union Expressway (TPLEX). The directive to stop the twin activities was issued by Gov. Amado Espino Jr. in response to an appeal he received last week.
Rosales folk stop quarrying, land filling
2011 ASNA AWARDEES–Governor Amado Espino Jr. and Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim join the ASNA awardees on stage after the formal presentation at the Sison Auditorium in Lingayen. From right: former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., National Artist Salvador Bernal, former Senator Leticia Ramos Shahani, Lt. General Arturo Ortiz, Joyce Bernal, Alma Quintans Kern…
2011 ASNA AWARDEES
LINGAYEN–This year’s ASNA awards honored seven Pangasinenses who have distinguished themselves in their respective fields of endeavor and have brought honor to the province, led by former House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and National Artist Salvador Flore Bernal. The Balitok award, the ASNA with highest distinction, was given to…
