From fishpond to offshore farming By Roberto Garcia LINGAYEN Gulf has been one of the traditional sites for mariculture in Northern Luzon where the bangus fishpond industry was developed several decades ago. However, the increasing incidence of converting fishponds for human settlements or for industrial purposes is threatening the industry…
A WAIVER FOR THE RICH–The above certification signed by Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim is made in favor of a “Ms. Janzzini Grace P. Diaz” whom he claimed to have “constructed a residential house made of light material on a lot owned by the City Government of Dagupan at Sitio Silunga…
FOR ELECTRIC CONNECTION AN official of the Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) said electric connection to illegal structures along a beachfront in Tondaligan Park was made possible on the strength of the waivers signed by Mayor Benjamin Lim and City Administrator Vladimir Mata.
LINGAYEN–The provincial board will conduct a probe, in aid of legislation, on the reported black sand quarrying in Barangay Sabangan in this capital town, the subject of a petition by residents of surrounding communities.
IT REMAINS a mystery as to who is running and pocketing the revenues from stall rental fees at the ongoing “Baratillo” in Dagupan, operated 24/7 on Galvan Street, and the Tindaay Labi on part of A.B. Fernandez Avenue on the nights of Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
HIGH COURT IN PANGASINAN–Supreme Court Administrator and spokesperson Midas Marquez addresses representatives of the five pillars of the justice system during a dialogue in Dagupan as part of the Enhanced Justice on Wheels program of the High Tribunal. Thirty-two detainees of the Dagupan City jail were released as a result…
LINGAYEN—Justice came wheeling in – literally – for a prisoner who was languishing at the Pangasinan Provincial Jail for longer than his sentence. The “Justice on Wheels” of the Supreme Court that arrived on November 24 here, freed an inmate after just five minutes of litigation upon determining that the…
END IMPUNITY—Journalists in Pangasinan hold a prayer rally in front of the Dagupan City Museum on November 23 in commemoration of the 32 community journalists killed in the Maguinadanao Massacre two years ago. The gathering was also in observance of the International Day to End Impunity. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)…
REMEMBERING MAGUINDANAO MASSACRE ABOUT a hundred media practitioners in Pangasinan lit candles, raised clenched fists and sang the protest song “Ang Bayan Ko” in a show of solidarity with colleagues throughout the country in remembering the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre on November 23 in front of the Dagupan City Museum.
A DAGUPEÑA graduate of the Colegio de Dagupan placed 9th among those who took the September 2011 Licensure Examination for Teachers.
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