PRESS freedom scored a victory when the libel complaint filed by the Citystate Savings Bank against eight staff members of The SUNDAY Punch led by editor publisher Ermin Garcia Jr. was dismissed for insufficiency of evidence by the Office of the City Prosecutor of Pasig.
MALASIQUI–The Supreme Court has denied the appeal of the Magic Group of Companies to reverse an earlier decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) that set aside the resolution of the Sangguniang Bayan of Malasiqui authorizing the lease of a portion of a municipal property to the company.
OWNERS GIVEN 15 DAYS NOTICE THE owners of some 60 illegal fish pens whose structures were not demolished after presenting claims of land ownership in various rivers of Dagupan were finally given notices to harvest or transfer their fish stocks to give way to the demolition that will be carried…
BANI HAS HIGHEST LINGAYEN—Only 15 of the 172 suspected measles cases in the province that were sent for testing by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) from January to February 3 this year were confirmed by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Manila.
THE Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed a resolution Monday asking Mayor Belen Fernandez to revive the Bantay Dagupan, first formed 11 years ago, to check on the apparent rising number of crimes in the city.
HEALTH TALK—Govenor Amado Espino Jr. (2nd from left) and Provincial Health Officer Dra. Anna Ma. Theresa De Guzman welcome Cebu Governor Hilario Davide III, who led an 11-man delegation on a visit to Pangasinan to learn about the province’s best practices in public health services. (PUNCHphoto by Johanne R. Macob)…
LINGAYEN—The word about the province’s efficient healthcare services has gotten around. The provincial government of Cebu also wants to replicate the best practices of Pangasinan particularly on healthcare services.
THE first Material Recovery and Composting Facility (MRCF) in Dagupan located near the dumpsite in Barangay Bonuan Boquig is now on test-run, according to Mayor Belen T. Fernandez. Dedicated to process and reduce waste to be put into the dumpsite, the MRCF was first tested last February 6 with the assistance of Frederick…
PREPARING FOR EARTHQUAKES A SIX-DAY training on the use of the Rapid Earthquake Damage Assessment System (REDAS) software will be conducted by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) for Dagupan City officials and volunteers starting today February 9 at the CSI Stadia in Dagupan.
LESSONS ON FOOD PRODUCTION—Students of Bonuan Boquig Elementary School in Dagupan City listen to their school principal, Manuel Ferrer, as he teaches them the right amount of feeds for the tilapia at the aquaponics area of the school’s Bahay Kubo and Garden. (PUNCHphoto by Cesar Ramirez) Back to Homepage
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