THE Sangguniang Panlungsod has passed a resolution authorizing Mayor Alipio Fernandez to grant the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) administrative control and supervision over the Dagupan City Seafood Processing Complex. Councilor Alfredo Quinto Sr., who proposed the resolution, said while the city government would like to manage the…
BANI—This small town of only about 48,000 people could soon become the province’s center for renewable energy. The indications are there. A Japanese company is now measuring wind velocity here in preparation for its plan to build windmills and at the same time, a Spanish firm is ready to conduct a feasibility…
RICE PLANT CONSTRUCTION IN FULL SWING–Provincial Administrator Rafael F. Baraan (1st from right) takes (from left) Department of Agriculture Regional Technical Director Cris Bautista and Mr. Kim Jen Oh, representative from Korean International Cooperation Agency, on an inspection of the state-of-the-art Rice Processing Plant at the Provincial Nursery Compound in…
WINDMILLS OF BANI–Mayor Marcelo Navarro Jr. of Bani holds a brochure on the prototype of windmills that will be built by More Energy in sitio Ulanen, Barangay Dacap Sur Bani. The town’s windmills will be more modern than the windmills in Bangui, Ilocos Norte. (Punchphoto by LM) Back to Homepage
FUTILE EFFORTS–An enraged housewife argues with Sheriff Saturnino Tadeja on the legality of the demolition order in a bid to prevent the demolition of her house. The tenants being evicted claim they were issued Certificates of Land Transfer by the Department of Agrarian Reform. Tadeja said that the CTC was…
A NEW TRADITION POLITICS could very well now be regarded as a traditional item of inheritance in the Philippines. And that rings loudly true in Pangasinan. In many parts of the province, candidates related to each other or coming from a line of political families either got re-elected, moved to…
“I WILL stay.” Re-elected Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez has reiterated that she has no intention of resigning from her post despite the loss of her running-mate Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. in the last election to come-backing Mayor Benjamin Lim. Lim and the vice mayor are business rivals in the shopping…
URDANETA CITY–A robbery attempt on two commercial banks here was foiled last week with the discovery by the police of a newly-dug tunnel leading to these establishments. The target banks are the BHF Bank/Pawnshop and May Bank located at the intersection of the Maharlika Highway at the city center.
CLEAN, honest and peaceful in Pangasinan. This was how the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV) and the Provincial Elections Office described the May 10 election in the province. “It was generally clean, honest and peaceful,” said lawyer Cornelia Espanol, a representative of the PPCRV of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese in…
THE area affected by red tide in western Pangasinan has widened over the last few weeks to include the coastal vicinities of Anda and Bolinao, which are adjacent to the town of Bani where the occurrence was first detected. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has issued advisory warning…
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