RESUMED TREE-CUTTING ALONG MNR LINGAYEN –The officers-in-charge at the regional office of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Third District Engineering Office of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) have been asked by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) to explain tomorrow, Monday, during its regular session…
SCARBOROUGH SHOAL IS OURS—The fishermen from Infanta are joined by their lawyers Harry L. Roque, Jr., and Gilbert Andres of Center of International Law inside the Pangasinan State University in Infanta after signing and emailing their complaints to three United Nations offices, detailing various violations of their human rights by China’s state…
INFANTA–Sixteen fishermen from Infanta and a few from Sta. Cruz, Zambales filed on September 22 a complaint online before three bodies of the United Nations based in Geneva, Switzerland over the harassment and bullying perpetrated against them by state agents of China at the disputed Scarborough Shoal, some 120 nautical miles off Zambales province. Aided…
MANGATAREM—The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) based in Dagupan City recently launched its arboretum, a botanical garden of trees, in this town to remind Pangasinenses to love and care for indigenous trees in their neighborhood. Celso Salazar, community environment and natural resources officer in Dagupan City under whose…
CITY Mayor Belen T. Fernandez will leave for Chile to address more than 400 leaders from government, academia and civil society from around the world at the second “Our Ocean” Conference at the Sheraton Miramar Hotel in the Region of Valparaiso, Chile on October 5 and 6. Mayor Fernandez was…
LAST CHANCE TO SAVE THE TREE — The backhoe of he DPWH contractor appears to be standing eerily still waiting for a chance to topple the tree that Fr. Roberto Reyes, a convenor of the National Coalition of Save the Trees Movement in Pangasinan, decided to adopt and save from certain…
REYES TO POLS, DENR, DPWH: BINALONAN–After tying a white ribbon around a tree on the left side of the Manila North Road (MNR) in Barangay Caviganan, with his name written on it, Franciscan priest Fr. Robert Reyes, also known as the “running priest,” read a prayer that warned that those that will cut his tree will ultimately face the…
LINGAYEN– The provincial board, perturbed by the resumption of tree-cutting along the Manila North Road (MNR), is set to hold an inquiry into the reported activity. “It seems that the DENR is impolite because aware of our resolution that any cutting of trees dead or alive should at least be…
Former Mayor De Vera at the hospital recovering from a gunshot wound, is visited by Mayor Ricardo Camacho. BAYAMBANG—A former mayor here survived an attempt on his life when an unidentified gunman shot and wounded him around early morning last Thursday in Barangay Poblacion Sur this town. P/Senior Superintendent Rolie…
SEAL OF GOOD LOCAL GOVERNANCE THE provincial government, the local governments of the cities of Alaminos, Dagupan and San Carlos and 16 towns earned their respective Seal of Good Local Governance from the Department of Interior and Local Government in a Conferment Ceremony at Oasis Country Resort and Hotel in San Fernando City,…
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