FATE OF LANDFILL SEALED SAN JACINTO–In the remote possibility that Dagupan succeeds in recovering the 30-hectare land it bought in Barangay Awai here supposedly for a sanitary landfill, residents would still resist the facility’s construction but would be willing to have an evacuation center built at the site. Mayor Robert De Vera…
NEW MAJORITY PERPLEXED THE members of the new majority of the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) appear to be way over their heads. Four weeks after the reorganization, the members of the new majority have been committing a series of blunders in passing their draft resolutions and ordinances and this unexpected…
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE—Even on a sunny day like last July 31, pedestrians and motorists in downtown Dagupan, particularly at the crossings of AB Fernandez Avenue with Zamora and Galvan Streets, suffer from flooding as the tide rises in this coastal city. (Punchphotos by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
NO typhoon signal was raised over Pangasinan but Typhoon ‘Gener’ left some towns flooded and prompted the release of water from the San Roque Dam. No casualties were reported. Three barangays of Bugallon, namely Portic, Hacienda and Cayanga, were declared under state of calamity because of damages brought by flashfloods…
AN INTENSIVE investigation against illegal logging in the forest ranges in Mangatarem town and most parts of neighboring Zambales area was launched last week by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). DENR officials arrived Tuesday at the agency’s provincial office based in Dagupan to initiate the probe, which…
ONLY IN DAGUPAN CITY THE number of emergency workers (EWs) paid on a daily rate, currently at 700, outnumber the regular employees holding plantilla positions, at 600, in the Dagupan City government. The data is contained in a report to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) submitted by Virgil Tangco, city budget…
OUTSTANDING POLICEMAN–Police Officer 3 Eduardo Santiago of Bayambang PNP, named one of this year’s Country’s Outstanding Policemen in Service (COPS) by the Metrobank Foundation, shows the scar of a hack wound he sustained during a hostage-taking incident last year along the North Luzon Expressway (NLEX) where he successfully neutralized a hostage-taker….
BAYAMBANG—“It was like a movie scene.” This is how Police Officer 3 Eduardo de Guzman Santiago remembers the day when, off duty and simply on his way home to his family in this town, he rescued two children from a hostage-taker inside a passenger bus, an incident where he sustained…
OMBUDSMAN RECEIVES 2 COMPLAINTS TWO SEPARATE complaints have been filed before the Ombudsman against Mayor Benjamin Lim for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act or Republic Act 3019 Section 3, par. e in connection with the purchase of a 30-hectare property in Barangay Awai, San Jacinto for P16 million…
BSL HOSPITAL PROJECT CONTRARY to the earlier announcement of Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim, officials of the City School Division revealed they have yet to see any communication in black and white from the Department of Education (DepEd) ordering students to vacate the Juan P. Guadiz Elementary School, which is being eyed…
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