CELEBRATING A GOOD YEAR A CLEAR evening sky welcomed some 600,000 revelers who joined the Bangusan Street Party last April 30 in Dagupan, capping off this year’s Bangus Festival with a feel-good mood in the city. The street party, held along the 3.7-kilometer stretch of the Jose R. de Venecia…
COLORFUL BANCAS, CLEAN RIVER—More than a hundred decorated bancas sail the stretch of Agno River, considered one of the cleanest in the country, along Sitio Bantayan, Barangay Pangapisan North in Lingayen to Bañaga Bridge in Bugallon during the Banca Parada, which culminated the Pangasinan Pistay Dayat 2014 celebration. (PIO photo) Back…
PISTA’Y DAYAT 2014 BUGALLON–A parade of more than 150 boats, dressed up with colourful decor, during the Banca Parada (Fluvial Parade) on May 1, showcased the Agno River, now considered one of the country’s cleanest rivers. Governor Amado Espino Jr. was on board the boat that represented local government units…
LINGAYEN—Pangasinan could soon become the only province in the country with public toilets reserved for gays, in addition to the usual room for men and women. Two members of the provincial board have proposed an ordinance that would require all public establishments in the province to designate toilets not just…
A DENTIST working at the national government-owned Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) was arrested by the Dagupan police while in the act of buying illegal drugs from a minor in a Muslim community in Barangay Bonuan Tondaligan at around 12:20 a.m. last April 28. P/Supt. Christopher Abrahano, city police chief,…
COURT HEARING ON MC ADORE SALE SANGGUNIANG PANLUNGSOD Secretary Ryan Ravanzo, thru his lawyer Borromeo Bustamante, filed a motion for reconsideration on the resolution of the First Division of the Supreme Court granting the petition of AMB ALC Holdings & Management Corporation as parte intervenor for the change of venue…
WHILE in Dagupan, beware of jaywalking. The city government is bent on reinforcing the anti-jaywalking law, which should have started April 28 had not Mayor Belen Fernandez reset the implementation of its penal provision a week later. Violators of the anti-jaywalking ordinance will have to pay the corresponding penalty if caught…
P105-M UNLIQUIDATED FUND “NOT in my administration.” This was stressed by Mayor Belen Fernandez following a report in a national daily on the P105 million worth of unliquidated funds released by the city government under the previous leadership to non-government organizations (NGO).
2014 GILON-GILON’S BEST—The street dancers of Barangay Pantal performing their unique bangus harvest dance went on to harvest the this year’s plum prize as the best in Gilon-Gilon Ed Baley Street Dancing competition held last week.–(Photo by Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
GILON GILON ED BALEY THIS year’s Bangus Festival formally opened on April 22 with the Gilon- Gilon ed Baley street dancing competition, featuring dances that simulate the harvesting of bangus. Twenty-two contingents from the 31 barangays of this city marched and performed through the city streets from Perez Boulevard to…
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