The farming of the exotic sea urchin By Roberto Garcia I WAS introduced to the fascinating world of coral reef, seagrass beds, and mangrove forests during a summer class in Bolinao where never-been-seen animals and plants overwhelmed me. I remember the sea urchin, a slow moving animal encased in a…
Kurit Awiran Nen Santiago Villafania SAKEY ak ed saray naimbitaan a panelists ed agawan Kurit Awiran (1st Pangasinan Creative Writing Workshop) nen Hulio 28, 2012 dia ed Capitol Resort Hotel, Lingayen. Say masimon kon pisasalamat ed maseseg a Tourism Chief Officer Malu Elduayan tan say taganon inoprisi da manlapu ed…
DAGUPAN City Mayor Benjamin S. Lim chided The PUNCH for its headline story that reported the filing of graft cases against him before the Ombudsman, on the reportedly anomalous Awai land deal. He expressed his annoyance during the Media In Action forum of the Pangasinan Press Club last Friday. When…
FATE OF LANDFILL SEALED SAN JACINTO–In the remote possibility that Dagupan succeeds in recovering the 30-hectare land it bought in Barangay Awai here supposedly for a sanitary landfill, residents would still resist the facility’s construction but would be willing to have an evacuation center built at the site. Mayor Robert De Vera…
NEW MAJORITY PERPLEXED THE members of the new majority of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) appear to be way over their heads. Four weeks after the reorganization, the members of the new majority have been committing a series of blunders in passing their draft resolutions and ordinances and this unexpected…
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE—Even on a sunny day like last July 31, pedestrians and motorists in downtown Dagupan, particularly at the crossings of AB Fernandez Avenue with Zamora and Galvan Streets, suffer from flooding as the tide rises in this coastal city. (Punchphotos by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
NO typhoon signal was raised over Pangasinan but Typhoon ‘Gener’ left some towns flooded and prompted the release of water from the San Roque Dam. No casualties were reported. Three barangays of Bugallon, namely Portic, Hacienda and Cayanga, were declared under state of calamity because of damages brought by flashfloods…
AN INTENSIVE investigation against illegal logging in the forest ranges in Mangatarem town and most parts of neighboring Zambales area was launched last week by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). DENR officials arrived Tuesday at the agency’s provincial office based in Dagupan to initiate the probe, which…
ONLY IN DAGUPAN CITY THE number of emergency workers (EWs) paid on a daily rate, currently at 700, outnumber the regular employees holding plantilla positions, at 600, in the Dagupan City government. The data is contained in a report to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) submitted by Virgil Tangco, city budget…
OUTSTANDING POLICEMAN–Police Officer 3 Eduardo Santiago of Bayambang PNP, named one of this year’s Country’s Outstanding Policemen in Service (COPS) by the Metrobank Foundation, shows the scar of a hack wound he sustained during a hostage-taking incident last year along the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) where he successfully neutralized a hostage-taker….
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