THREE TO GO AS of January 12, Dagupan City is now 90 percent drug-free following the declaration of Barangays Pantal and Pogo Chico as drug–free, raising the number of villages cleared of illegal drugs to 28. The separate declarations of the two barangays being clear of illegal drugs was signed…
UNIQUE HISTORY WALL LINGAYEN—Pangasinenses can review World War II in capsule through rare photographs now on display in the wall of the renovated Philippine Veterans Bank (PVB) branch in Lingayen following its inauguration on Jan. 9. The inauguration coincided with the commemoration of 72nd anniversary of the Lingayen Gulf landings at the…
I WAS THERE — A visibly concerned Gov. Amado Espino III listens intently to WW II veteran Raymundo Cabrera of Dagupan City talk about his life as a veteran these days during the ceremonies marking the 72nd Lingayen Gulf Landings anniversary and 10th Pangasinan Veterans’ Day last January 9 at the…
IT’S true, Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed on Blue Beach in Dagupan City. This was asserted by a 90-year old Dagupeño who claims having seen MacArthur riding a military jeep in Bonuan 72 years ago here with his convoy. Alejandro Balolong of Paras St., Barangay Bonuan Gueset in Dagupan, is reportedly…
TO HONOR ALL ALLIED SOLDIERS TO put an end to the contentious debate where Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur landed in Pangasinan when allied forces started of the liberation of Luzon on January 9, 1945, markers on the beachhead that extended from Lingayen, Binmaley, Dagupan to San Fabian will be installed….
CITY Mayor Belen T. Fernandez will depart for the United States on January 20 to join the official mission organized by the Department of Interior and Local Government to attend a forum on federalism and local governance on January 22 in Washington D.C. Fernandez is only one of two city…
REMEMBERING THE HEROES — Gov. Amado Espino III and Dr. Vivencio Villaflor lead the wreath laying before the marker for the soldiers who died during the 1945 Lingayen Gulf invasion. With them are Australian Embassy’s Counselor of Development and Governance Kerrie Anderson, Administrative Assistant WOI Craig Cutts and Peter Renton,…
URDANETA CITY—The city government-owned Urdaneta City University (UCU) received last month its greatest Christmas gift yet – a four-storey building with 24 classrooms from the Travellers International Hotel Group Inc. (TIHGI) and Resorts World Philippines Cultural Heritage Foundation, Inc. (Resorts World Foundation) through the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR)….
URBIZTONDO — Life for Ronnie Dayan, former bodyguard-driver and self-confessed bagman for Sen. Leila de Lima, remains difficult and as he fears for his life to this day. P/Chief Inspector Joshua Maximo, Urbiztondo police chief, said Dayan, has not slept in his house in Barangay Galarin here but reportedly occasionally visits…
BINALONAN—Gossipers have no place in Barangay Capas here as an “anti-tsismis” ordinance bans and penalizes them. Barangay Kapitan Danilo Tabucol Sr. said the ordinance has since helped maintain peace among families here because those proven to be spreading lies are fined and required to render community service. Tabucol said the…
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