Sunday mourning By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. IF you’re an avid fan of Mexican boxing legend Juan Manuel Marquez like me, it was a day of mourning for us last Sunday. Marquez, whom I predicted to win (not as a friend but from my personal perspective), failed to wrest…
7 reasons why art is stress-relieving OCTOBER 17, 2013; 9:48 p.m. I just got home from watching a friend do a mural on one of the private yet very-public walls in the town. I asked him if he was paid to do such and I wasn’t surprised when he answered…
DESPITE SERIOUS DEFICIT DESPITE an almost empty coffer she inherited from the previous administration, Mayor Belen Fernandez managed not only to pull the city through but to move forward establishing meaningful people-oriented projects. The mayor unabashedly attributed her success in achieving significant gains in her first 100 days to three effective…
BTF’S FIRST 100 DAYS––Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez delivers her First 100 Days Report before a huge crowd on October 14 at the CSI Stadia, highlighting both the struggles of her new administration and the accomplishments despite the challenges, particularly on fiscal matters. (CIO photo) Back to Homepage
FIRST 100 DAYS WITH a projected budget deficit at the end of the year couple with the need to ensure critical services to her constituents, Mayor Belen T. Fernandez chose to focus on the delivery of more high impact social services targeting poorest of the poor, senior citizens, malnourished children…
OCT 28 BARANGAY ELECTION WHAT is it about barangay posts that made some 29, 427 individuals file their candidacies for punong barangay and kagawad in over 1,346 barangays in 48 towns and two cities in Pangasinan for the village poll on October 28? The number, based on records of the Provincial…
LINGAYEN–The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) will conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation on the proliferation of fish cages near the 1,200 megawatt Sual Coal-fired Power Plant during their regular session on Monday, October 21. Invited to the inquiry are Regional Director Nestor D. Domenden of the Bureau of Fisheries and…
LESSONS FROM THE 1990 EARTHQUAKE MEMORIES of the powerful 7.7 earthquake that devastated Dagupan in 1990 rushed back among the city’s residents last week as a 7.2 tremor shook Bohol and Cebu on Tuesday. City Engineer Virginia Rosario, then the assistant city engineer, said that the sight of the destruction…
MORALLY WRONG STEM cell research and therapies that use stem cells derived from human embryos or aborted fetuses should be rejected and prohibited. This is the position preached by Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas in his Pastoral Guidance on Stem Cell Therapy to the members of the Union of Catholic Physicians…
R1MC ISO CERTIFICATION—Dr. Joseph Roland Mejia (left), chief of the Region I Medical Center (R1MC) based in Dagupan City, receives from Paul Bagatsing, vice president and general manager of AJA Registrars Inc., the ISO 9001:2008 certification conferred to the hospital in simple ceremony last October 14. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez) Back…
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