STILL PERSONA NON GRATA LINGAYEN—The provincial board thumbed down the request of the president of Pangasinan State University (PSU) here to speak during their session to discuss the implementing guidelines of the free college tuition law in the country. “We cannot address the letter, first we have declared, and this…
IT’S DONE, WE’RE READY – Jill Boughton (2nd from right), President and CEO of SURE Global W2W Innovations and Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez happily show the signed Memorandum of Agreement for the construction of US$ 11 million Waste to Worth facility to solve the decades old garbage problem of the city….
THE construction of the much-awaited Waste to Energy facility in Dagupan City is expected to start soon after the Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) between the Dagupan City government and the company that will build and operate the project, SURE Global Waste to Worth Innovations (W2WI) was signed on August 10…
LINGAYEN—The members of the provincial board expressed their individual serious concern over the peace and order situation in the eastern boundaries of Pangasinan and it prompted them to invite police and military officials in their Question Hour this week for a briefing on the level of threat posed by New…
BECAUSE of perceived continuing threat from New People’s Army (NPA) rebels in the area, work on the remaining portions of the Villa Verde Trail linking Pangasinan to Nueva Vizcaya has been temporarily suspended. This was revealed by Emmanuel Diaz, director officer-in-charge of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH)…
THE consolidated resolution of the Ombudsman dismissing the complaints filed against Mayor Belen Fernandez and four other city officials was a recognition of their due diligence in protecting public funds against “unauthorized claims”. This was the view of City Legal Officer Victoria Cabrera, commenting on the 18-page resolution of the…
FIRST DRUG-CLEARED CITY DECLARING Alaminos City as drug-cleared was the easy part, sustaining it is a bigger challenge. This is the view of P/Superintendent Benjamin Ariola, city police chief, of the city’s status in the war on drugs and to sustain the achievement is a much bigger challenge for both…
MANAOAG — “Aries was the best gift God has given me and the country.” The was how Katrina Tamondong, wife of Police Officer 2 Aries Tamondong of the Regional Public Safety Battalion of Region 1 (RPSB1), who hailed from Barangay Cabanbanan, Manaoag town, accepted the fate of her husband who…
NIGHT RIVER CROSSING – The team of rescuers participating in the Red Alert Emergency Expo 2017 may appear to be playing a tough tug-of-war but are in fact hard put at simulating an evening river crossing rescue on daytime and on land last July 29 in Lingayen. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
PLANNED CITY HALL TRANSFER THERE is no legal impediment seen by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) in the planned transfer of the Dagupan City Hall to a 1.2- hectare land being donated by the brother of Mayor Belen Fernandez. This was contained in the legal opinion (No. 15, Series…
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