NEW YEAR NIGHTMARES WAG nyo kaming tularan. (Don’t emulate us). This was the terse and almost emotional plea of two amputees from Dagupan City who now regret having committed the mistake of picking up firecrackers that misfired and did not explode on the eve of New Year. The firecrackers exploded in…
LOUDEST BANG ON NEW YEAR AFTER more than 17 years of hosting and arranging the loudest bang to welcome New Year at 12:00 noon of January 1, barangay officials of Pogo Grande finally decided to stop its tradition of lighting 100,000 pieces of firecrackers for the community’s safety. According to Barangay…
NO FILING OF CASES THE Dagupan City government will not sue owners of illegal fish pens and simply instead move to dismantle the structures to abate what it perceives to be a nuisance per se. This is the action that City Legal Officer Victoria Cabrera said will take after sending final notices to owners…
PASEO DE BELEN – A family takes time to take another selfie-shot in front of a bangus-inspired Belen (Nativity scene), one of the 20 on display since December 7 at the Paseo de Belen on De Venecia Highway extension in Dagupan City. Hundreds of residents have since been arriving at the site…
10 MORE TO GO NINE more barangays were declared by the city police here Thursday as drug-free, raising the number of drug-free barangays in Dagupan to 21. P/Supt. Neil Miro, acting-police chief, said this brought to 67.6 percent of the total 31 barangays in the city already cleared. In a ceremony…
THE Sangguniang Panlalawigan urged all local government units to organize Local Aids Councils to raise awareness and educate individuals to avoid Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) infection. In an interview, Board Member Raul Sison, author of the resolution, said, there must be local councils in each town and…
MAYOR Belen Fernandez has confirmed that some rogue owners of illegal fish pens have began employing deceptive means in order to be able to continue their illegal operations amid the city government’s current campaign to rid the city’s rivers and tributaries of illegal fish pen operations. In a talk to…
PRISON’S WASTES TO THE BEACH — What appears to be a tributary is actually the canal dug from the Dagupan BJMP District Jail to direct the flow of liquefied human wastes being dumped to the Tondaligan Beach. The Jail facility is about 500 meters away from the City Environment and Natural…
A BOON, NOT A BANE THE National Integrated Fisheries Technology and Development Center (NIFTDC) has cautioned fish farmers about eliminating the blue mussels (Mytella charruana) that have proliferated in the rivers of Dagupan not only because this is an edible specie of shellfish that is good for food not only for humans…
DAGUPAN CITY—Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas has called on his parishioners to join in prayer and attend a protest rally to resist the threat of the death penalty in the country. “The death penalty bill is being pushed for approval in Congress before Christmas. What a tragedy if this would be…
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