Piteous referees By Jesus A. Garcia, Jr. AS expected, the province’s two titan teams led by defending champions Lyceum Northwestern University Dukes and 2005 titlists UPang-PHINMA Flames eventually ended up the best in the 2014 UCAAP Jimmy Fernandez Basketball Challenge, outclassing six other tertiary school teams. Both now ready to…
Pangasinan tourism makes headway By Johanne Margarette R. Macob THE already famous Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of Manaoag in Manaoag town, was recently honored as a “Minor Basilica” of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis, he who is set to visit the Philippines January 15 to…
UNTOUCHABLE? Atty. Julius Cesar Peralta, chairman of the Board of Directors of Pangasinan Electric Cooperative (Panelco) III untouchable? He is always a no show every time he and his fellow Panelco III officials are invited to a Question Hour of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan. Last Monday, he again snubbed the provincial…
LINGAYEN—Licensed gun owners in Pangasinan welcomed the lifting of the suspension of the permit to carry firearms outside of residence (PTCFOR) in the province. The order to recall the suspension came exactly four months after Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Alan Purisima ordered the suspension on June 13, a week after…
CLAMOR FOR RETURN TO OLD SITE BAYAMBANG—Speaking for the members of the Parent-Teachers’ Association of Bayambang Central School, its president has appealed to Department of Education (DepEd) Secretary Armin Luistro to intercede in their year-long plea for the return of schoolchildren to their old school site in Zone 3. Filipinas…
EARLY MORNING RUSH—Dagupan residents in a neighborhood rush early morning to line up to fetch water from a neighbor’s deep well when they woke up to see no water flowing from their faucets last Friday. (Photo by Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
DAGUPAN City went dry for almost 15 hours from 8:00 p.m. Thursday till 11:00 a.m. Friday when the Dagupan City Water District (DCWD) closed its main transmission line for repair at the corner of A.B. Fernandez Avenue and Arellano Street that was suffering from a leak. DCWD earned the ire…
LINGAYEN—Task Force Ebola has been created in the province by virtue of a resolution adopted by the sanggunian panlalawigan last week specifically to study and adopt strategies to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus in this province. Dr. Jeremy Agerico Rosario, assistant provincial health officer, said the resolution initiated…
BANK DEPOSITS GARNISHED LINGAYEN—After the Court of Tax Appeals recently decided to allow the Bureau of Internal Revenue to garnish assets of the Pangasinan Electric Cooperative (Panelco) to cover the latter’s unpaid taxes, the ability of the electric cooperative to serve 16 towns and one city in eastern Pangasinan…
ARTSY MAKE-UP—Five students of the Dagupan City National High School take time to participate in the 5th Dagupan Children’s Congress at CSI Stadia but not without first sampling the free face painting offered to the participants. (PUNCHphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
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