STO. TOMAS— Secretary Antonio Villar Jr. of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) chair has criticized the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) for their apparent failure to stop jueteng operations in the country. Villar said the clampdown on the illegal numbers game appears…
OUTSTANDING DAGUPENOS—The six “Outstanding Dagupenos 2012” and the representative of retired Archbishop Oscar Cruz stand honored with their trophies during the awards night held in line with 65th Charter Anniversary of Dagupan last Wednesday at the Dagupan People’s Astrodome. They are (from left) Jose Datuin, Archbishop Cruz’s representative, Atty. Albino Gonzales,…
SIX Dagupeños and a retired archbishop were honored in this year’s celebration of Agew na Dagupan. The honorees are Jose F. Datuin, visual arts; James A. Dy, community service (disaster response); Atty. Albino V. Gonzales, community service (humanitarian advocacies); Johnny Guan Kay Lo (posthumous), corporate social responsibility; Felipe C. Siapno,…
FUTURE PUBLIC SERVANTS—Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez gives youth city officials serving under the Manlingkor ya Kalangweran program a first-hand experience in public service when they accompanied her to the Tebeng Elementary School last June 21 where she delivered computer units for the students’ use. (Photo by Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
DRUG WAR OR VIGILANTES’ WAR ? TWO notorious drug dealers and one suspected pusher that remain unidentified were killed over a span of two days in Dagupan City and a police investigation is underway on what could possibly be an ongoing drug war. A shooting incident transpired along Perez Boulevard in…
SAN FABIAN–Unidentified persons set off an improvised explosive device (IED) at the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) detachment in Barangay Nibaliw Narvarte here before it could be completed. The incident happened at about 1:00 a.m. of June 22, just about a week after the property owner, Rafael de Vera, and Nibaliw Narvarte Barangay…
RAILROADED RESOLUTION NOT VALID THE Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) has spoken. Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin S. Lim does not have blanket authority to sell the MC Adore property and the 10-hectare lot of the city in Barangay Talibaew, Calasiao, both owned by Dagupan, on the basis of…
DOUBLE-BARRELED DRIVE NEWLY-appointed Deputy Ombudsman for Luzon Gerard Mosquera vows to strengthen the satellite office’s field investigation and the prosecution of cases to increase chances of securing a conviction against corrupt government officials in support of the eight-point roadmap of the Office of the Ombudsman. Speaking during the Office of…
MOBILE PLANETARIUM—A student of Sual National High School peeks through a telescope aimed at the sky, set up as part of a mobile planetarium brought to the campus on June 11 through the initiative of Board Member John Christopher Arcinue, president of SK Provincial Federation, and Sual Mayor John Rodney Arcinue….
IT will be a non-working holiday in Dagupan on June 20 as the city celebrates its 65th Charter Day Anniversary. Proclamation No. 402, signed by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa by authority of President Benigno Aquino III, declared Wednesday as a special day in Dagupan, the only chartered city in Pangasinan.
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