NEW ISLAND—After years of abuse and neglect of Dagupan City’s rivers by the city government, an island like mound of silt now surfaces at the Calmay River during low tide. The heavy siltation in the city’s rivers, caused largely by the unregulated operation of fish pens for more than a…
RANJIT GOES TO COURT URDANETA CITY—Stop the increase! This was the appeal made before the court as a petition for injunction with temporary restraining order (TRO) and/or preliminary injunction was filed against the Pangasinan III Electric Cooperative (Panelco III) that implemented a P5.63 per kilowatt hour (KWH) rate hike in…
PRESS freedom scored a victory when the libel complaint filed by the Citystate Savings Bank against eight staff members of The SUNDAY Punch led by editor publisher Ermin Garcia Jr. was dismissed for insufficiency of evidence by the Office of the City Prosecutor of Pasig.
MALASIQUI–The Supreme Court has denied the appeal of the Magic Group of Companies to reverse an earlier decision of the Court of Appeals (CA) that set aside the resolution of the Sangguniang Bayan of Malasiqui authorizing the lease of a portion of a municipal property to the company.
OWNERS GIVEN 15 DAYS NOTICE THE owners of some 60 illegal fish pens whose structures were not demolished after presenting claims of land ownership in various rivers of Dagupan were finally given notices to harvest or transfer their fish stocks to give way to the demolition that will be carried…
BANI HAS HIGHEST LINGAYEN—Only 15 of the 172 suspected measles cases in the province that were sent for testing by the Provincial Health Office (PHO) from January to February 3 this year were confirmed by the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM) in Manila.
AFTER P5.60 GENERATION CHARGE LINGAYEN—The Pangasinan III Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Panelco), under scrutiny and reproach for a P5.60 per kilowatt hour (kwH) increase it implemented in December, has promised consumers a decrease in rate in February. Lawyer Julius Cesar Peralta, chairman of the Panelco board of directors, told the provincial…
PRIVATE SECTOR workers in in Region 1 will get an additional pay of P8.00 per day from P205 to P213 starting February 5 this year, according to Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). DOLE Director Grace Ursua, chairperson of the Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board (RTWPB-1), said the wage…
CHINESE ROOTS—Mayor Belen Fernandez waves to her fellow Chinoys (Chinese-Filipinos) during a gathering of members of the Filipino-Chinese community at the Dagupan City Plaza on the eve of the Chinese New Year last January 29, marked by dragon and lion dances, presentation of Chinese culture and a 30-minute fireworks display….
FOR BALON DAGUPAN DAGUPAN Mayor Belen Fernandez called on the city’s Chinese-Filipino (Chinoy) community to help her administration build a New Dagupan as she paid tribute to the early Chinese migrants who came to Pangasinan when the boundaries of the province still extended up to Ilocos.
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