SP HIT BY “TSUNAMI” THE Dagupan City Mayor’s Office again misled and pulled the rug from the under the Sangguniang Panglunsod’s feet. Amid denials from City Administrator Vlad Mata, documents obtained by The PUNCH show that the Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) of Dagupan City has already conducted a bidding…
TSUNAMI HILL—(Top photo) The miniature scale model of the proposed Tsunami Hill in the island Barangay of Pugaro as presented to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) by City Administrator Vladimir Mata as the head of the City Planning Office and the City Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council. (Lower photo) The Notice…
THE expert assessment of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) and the Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau (MGB) on the proposed Tsunami Hill project will be critical in the decision of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) whether to approve the Tsunami Hill project or not. This was clarified during the initial…
LINGAYEN—A year after they survived an attempt on their lives, former Lingayen Vice Mayor Ramon Arcinue and his wife Zorahayda, incumbent barangay chairman of Poblacion, Lingayen were shot dead by a lone gunman in front of their rented apartment in Sampaloc, Manila on the night of March 7. The Arcinue couple, who were…
OPLAN: SumVac LINGAYEN– Summer holiday-goers heading for the beach here in the capital town are assured of added efforts to ensure their safety in local beaches to make their vacation “more fun” in Pangasinan. The Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) has launched Oplan: SumVac (Summer Vacation) with…
BAYAMBANG–A laboratory manufacturing fake medicines was busted following a raid by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the police in a house in Barangay Tambac here before noon of March 6. Arrested in the raid was the suspected owner of the laboratory, identified as Romeo Sagarino, 65,…
IDLE RESOURCE —The work site of the P100-million Seafood Processing Plant in Bonuan Binloc continues to the empty and idle as city hall and Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources officials fail to come to a decision on the management and operation arrangement for the facility built through a grant…
KOREAN GOV’T EXPRESSES CONCERN MARCH 1 came and went but the fate of the Seafood Processing Plant in Dagupan remains unresolved. The supposed announcement last Thursday of a decision by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and city hall did not materialize as BFAR Director Asis Perez failed…
THE National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center (NIFTDC) has reiterated its appeal to local government units (LGUs) to restrict the harvesting of infected shellfishes in their areas as the Harmful Algal Bloom (HAB) or red tide has now spread to Alaminos City. The other HAB-affected areas in western Pangasinan are…
BINMALEY–Mayor Lorenzo Cerezo has defended his town’s proposed loan of P55 million from the Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) for seven projects. The projects are a commercial strip along Plaza Rizal Street, public market, an auditorium, electronic billboard, rehabilitation of the Binmaley infirmary which has been given a P1 million counterpart by Cibac party-list; Rural…
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