THE City State Savings Bank has filed a complaint for libel against an executive of the Dagupan Electric Corporation (Decorp) and The PUNCH’s editor-publisher and seven editorial staff members before the Office of the City Prosecutor in Pasig City, Metro Manila. The complaint was filed by lawyer Roger Diaz with…
LINGAYEN—The provincial board of Pangasinan approved Monday last week a resolution extending P2-million as calamity aid for earthquake-affected victims in Bohol. In a resolution passed by the board presided over by Vice Gov. Jose Ferdinand Calimlim Jr, the aid will be drawn from the province’s calamity fund.
A STORY OF HOPE FOR THE FUTURE URDANETA CITY –Penniless, begging on the streets and most of the time uncertain where their next meal will come from, two street children showed jaded adults that their situation was not enough to give up one value that was taught them early on …
DESPITE SERIOUS DEFICIT DESPITE an almost empty coffer she inherited from the previous administration, Mayor Belen Fernandez managed not only to pull the city through but to move forward establishing meaningful people-oriented projects. The mayor unabashedly attributed her success in achieving significant gains in her first 100 days to three effective…
BTF’S FIRST 100 DAYS––Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez delivers her First 100 Days Report before a huge crowd on October 14 at the CSI Stadia, highlighting both the struggles of her new administration and the accomplishments despite the challenges, particularly on fiscal matters. (CIO photo) Back to Homepage
FIRST 100 DAYS WITH a projected budget deficit at the end of the year couple with the need to ensure critical services to her constituents, Mayor Belen T. Fernandez chose to focus on the delivery of more high impact social services targeting poorest of the poor, senior citizens, malnourished children…
OCT 28 BARANGAY ELECTION WHAT is it about barangay posts that made some 29, 427 individuals file their candidacies for punong barangay and kagawad in over 1,346 barangays in 48 towns and two cities in Pangasinan for the village poll on October 28? The number, based on records of the Provincial…
LINGAYEN–The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) will conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation on the proliferation of fish cages near the 1,200 megawatt Sual Coal-fired Power Plant during their regular session on Monday, October 21. Invited to the inquiry are Regional Director Nestor D. Domenden of the Bureau of Fisheries and…
LESSONS FROM THE 1990 EARTHQUAKE MEMORIES of the powerful 7.7 earthquake that devastated Dagupan in 1990 rushed back among the city’s residents last week as a 7.2 tremor shook Bohol and Cebu on Tuesday. City Engineer Virginia Rosario, then the assistant city engineer, said that the sight of the destruction…
PARENTS PROTEST—A group of parents of pupils of the Bayambang 1 Central School led by Nelson de Vera Borillo, auditor of the Parents Teachers and Community Association (PTCA), hold a protest rally to express their opposition to the transfer of their children to a new school building in Barangay Magsaysay….
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