A practical boat for local fishers and fishpond operators By Roberto Garcia A FEW years back I started using a small motorized boat that usually catches the attention of people along the river because of its unconventional engine design compared to our local motorboats.
Business Proposition
What’s wrong with the judiciary? By Ulysses Raciles Butuyan TO be sure, some things are wrong with the judiciary but, for now, this writing focuses only on one. Time and again a judge or high magistrate is addressed as an “attorney.” Even the Chief Justice is sometimes mistaken for the…
A Kabaleyan’s Thoughts…
CONTROVERSIAL BUILDING–It is not known what the structure is being erected on the site from across the Daongan ed Dagupan and except for the fact that Mayor Benjamin Lim is often seen in the area supervising the construction giving it a semblance of a city government project, there are no official…
CONTROVERSIAL BUILDING
WHO OWNS IT? THE Dagupan River Cruise is hailed as a good tourism project, but the process in which it is being set up appears highly irregular. This was voiced by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, presiding officer of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), as she announced that the council has…
City council to probe ‘Daongan Ed Dawel’
WERE the jai-alai betting stations around the province still legally operating as of last Friday? The provincial police did not know and in their uncertainty, chose to simply keep the status quo.
No stopping Jai-alai
SMOKERS in Dagupan beware. The campaign in Metro Manila against smoking in public areas may soon be duplicated in the city after the city government launched on Monday the Smoke-Free Philippines Run and Health Covenant Signature Campaign seeking to ban smoking in the city’s public places and advocate a healthy…
Dagupan launches smoke-free city campaign
THE STORY OF TWO DAMS A NEW dam called San Angel Small Reservoir Irrigation Project located in the eastern town of Rosales will be operational by November, providing irrigation to rice lands and a soon a fish farming facility.
The San Angel Dam in Rosales and Cabatuan Dam in Bugallon
WHO got the P3.1 million fund intended for the cleaning of drainage canals in the barangays? The bigger question is – who spent it, and for what? According to City Treasurer Romelita Alcantara the P3.1 million fund allotted by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) for the barangays of Dagupan for cleaning drainage…
‘Missing’ P3.1M for barangays released in April—Alcantara
LEARNING THE PANGASINAN HYMN–The provincial government, through the Tourism Operations Division led by its chief Ma. Luisa Elduayan (in red shirt) introduces the official Pangasinan Hymn entitled “Luyag Ko Tan Yaman” to students of Urdaneta I Central School in Urdaneta City. The introduction of the hymn was one of the…
