EVEN as City Engineer Virginia Rosario presses on for the demolition of affluent, non-Dagupeño illegal settlers in Sitio Silungan and outside the Bliss site in Bonuan Binloc, city hall officials appear nonchalant about the long-standing issue. The illegal settlers have been found to have used waivers to secure electrical connection…
MANGATAREM—Efforts against illegal logging activities in the province need to be intensified and expanded, according to Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil. Bataoil said following the successful operations of the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office led by Leduina Co against illegal logging in this town, same efforts must be pursued…
LINGAYEN—The provincial police force is now on heightened alert and will be shifted to full alert starting Monday in anticipation of the thousands that will be motoring to the province for the observance of the Holy Week. After the Holy Week, the heightened alert level will be maintained because of…
SMALL BUT TERRIBLE—Jennifer Vinoya takes a break with her young students from her neighborhood and church group in their residence in Barangay Caoayan Kiling, San Carlos City where she teaches them on her spare time. (Photo by Eva Visperas) Back to Homepage
SAN CARLOS CITY—Twenty-year old Jennifer Vinoya, standing at three feet tall, will proudly walk on stage on April 2 to receive her Academic Excellence Award in Bachelor of Elementary Education from the Binalatongan Community College (BCC). Vinoya is among the top 10 students, dubbed as mga Iskolar ng Bayan, in her…
SP’S MAGIC 8—Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez (second from right) goes into a huddle with six members of the ‘Magic 8’ in the Sangguniang Panlungsod whose votes could override the partial veto of Mayor Benjamin Lim of the approved 2012 budget. With Fernandez are Councilors Jeslito Seen, Jesus Canto, Luis Samson…
“WITHOUT BASIS IN LAW …” THE executive and legislative branches of Dagupan are on a collision anew after Mayor Benjamin Lim vetoed in part the ordinance passed by the Sanggunian Panlungsod (SP) authorizing the city’s P581 million annual budget for 2012. In his strongly worded veto message to the SP dated…
THE Seafood Processing Plant in Dagupan, forced into closure due to disagreements among city officials since October last year, has finally been given the green light to re-open its doors to traders and fish farmers. The reopening was ordered after the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) National Director…
LINGAYEN–Another first was recorded in Pangasinan when it became the only province in the country to come up with an orthography for the Pangasinan launguage. The proposed Pangasinan orthography was presented last Wednesday to provincial officials together with Jose Laderas Santos, chief commissioner of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF).
LINGAYEN–The chief of police of Sual and three of his men were relieved of their posts after they were implicated in a case of kidnapping perpetrated in a still unknown town on a still unidentified victim. Relieved and placed on a floating status at the Personnel Holding Administration Office of…
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