LINGAYEN—The provincial government goes on the offensive in environmental protection in another front. This time, Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr., who initiated the transformation of the capitol complex here, has called on the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to enact an ordinance that will ban spitting in the area. At the same time,…
KAPITAN FINED P50,000 A WARNING to private landowners who think garbage from the dumpsite is a good and cheap alternative as filling material. Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) has fined two property owners in Barangay Bonuan Boquig in Dagupan of P50,000 each for allowing their respective lots to serve as dumping…
LINGAYEN—This capital town leads 12 towns and cities in Pangasinan that have been placed under tight watch by the Provincial Health Office due to the increasing cases of dengue. Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, speaking before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, noted that Lingayen tops the list of dengue cases recorded…
CREDIBILITY OF COMMITTEE QUESTIONED AN APPRAISAL committee has been formed through an executive order of Mayor Benjamin S. Lim, signaling the start of the negotiation and sale of the MC Adore International Palace and a more than nine-hectare property of Dagupan intended for a housing project for city hall employees…
OUT IN THE RAIN–Some 540 students are bound to hold their class under the rain after the century-old Gabaldon Building of the Bayambang Central School was destroyed by a two-hour fire that raged at dawn on Wednesday, which the school community and townsfolk believe to be of suspicious origin because of…
BAYAMBANG SCHOOL BLAZE BAYAMBANG—Leaving some 540 pupils in Grades I and II without a classroom on the very first week of the new school year, the June 6 fire at the Bayambang Central School (BCS) here is suspected to be a possible case of arson. Some teachers and parents expressed…
BAYAMBANG–Third District Rep. Rachel Arenas vowed to work for the immediate construction of a three-room school building at the Bayambang Central School (BSC) to ease the plight of pupils after 12 classrooms were razed last week. Arenas visited BCS a day after the blaze that gutted the main building of…
MOURNING FOR FAITH—The family in mourning of slain 13-year old Madelaine Faith Goyena gather around her coffin during the mass held at the Saint John Metropolitan Cathedral on June 7 before her burial. Faith was brutally murdered on June 1 and while one suspect has been arrested, the police are…
AS Madelaine Faith Goyena, 13, a sophomore of the Dagupan City National High School (DCNHS), was laid to rest last Thursday, the school community and city officials called on the police to make sure that justice is served on the brutal slaying. Wearing white T shirts printed with “Justice for…
AMID THE furor over opening of new dumpsites in the city, the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) has belied claims made by certain quarters that the government-owned hospital is dumping its toxic wastes at the Dagupan City’s open dumpsite in Barangay Bonuan Boquig. Dr. Roland Mejia, R1MC director, said the…
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