BINMALEY–About 31 sachets of shabu and P1,010,000 cash believed to be proceeds from selling illegal drugs were seized by combined police elements in two separate raids in Barangay San Isidro Norte here Monday. Arrested were Marivic Reyes, 40, brothers Dexter and Jordan Castro, aged 25 and 18 respectively after their houses…
XYPHER’S MOTION DENIED LINGAYEN—The complainant in the magnetite sand mining in the coastal barangays here hailed the order of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) denying the motion for reconsideration of a firm over the confiscation of an estimated 9,588 cubic meters black sand extracted to give way to a…
LINGAYEN—The provincial legal officer of Pangasinan wants the regional head of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) “to rectify or cause to be rectified the statement that the black sand recovered in the eco-tourism zone as “illegally sourced”. Lawyer Geraldine Baniqued in a letter dated July 2 addressed to MGB…
PAST JUNE 15 DEADLINE DAGUPENOS had expected to wake up on June 15 to see the city’s rivers finally cleared of fish pens after Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez had announced that she directed City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina that all illegal fish pens should be removed by June 15,…
SISON–All’s well that ends well between the municipal government of Sison and the provincial government when the latter agreed to lift a cease and desist order (CDO) it issued over an unauthorized excavation of a provincial road in that town by the former. This agreement was reached after a dialogue conducted…
ANTICIPATING calamitous flooding in Dagupan City during rainy season and onset of typhoons, the city government has been gathering children to be taught how to swim and learn how to save themselves in case they fall in the river or deep floodwaters. To date and in line with the program…
“THE Church continues to maintain what it has always taught. Marriage is a permanent union of man and woman, in the complementarity of the sexes and the mutual fulfillment that the union of a man and a woman bring into the loftiness of the matrimonial bond”. This was reiterated by Archbishop…
UNFINISHED BRIDGES LINGAYEN—The provincial board expects the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) officials in Region 1 and Pangasinan to explain the delays in the completion of the bridge projects in the province. The board members agreed in last week’s session to invite the agency’s regional officials and be…
FOR ROAD CONSTRUCTION ALAMINOS CITY—The city council has asked the provincial board to authorize the cutting of trees along the road that will be traversed by the construction of the Alaminos-Bani bypass road. Earning the provincial board’s approval is necessary after it adopted Resolution No. 269-2014 opposing the cutting of…
LINGAYEN—After receiving series of text messages and phone calls from motorists, Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr., in an open letter, belied reports that he ordered the closure of Padilla Bridge preventing motorists from using it on June 30. In the letter distributed to passing motorists in the area, the governor…
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