A PRELUDE TO 2010 The 2010 campaign period is still 5 months away but the first political salvo has already been fired between the expected contenders. Gov. Amado Espino Jr., taking center stage Tuesday in the newly-launched Lingguhang Talakayan sa Kapitolyo, countered point-by-point the four issues raised against him by…
Alaminos City, home of the Hundred Islands National Park (HINP), will become the site of the first commercial airport in the province and will be known as the Pangasinan Airport. A memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the construction of the Alaminos Airport Development Project was signed on September 24 by…
SAN FABIAN–Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) Assistant Secretary Arturo Lomibao, chief of the Land Transportation Office (LTO), said his agency is open to consultation and adjustments on the controversial Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) System project for motor vehicles. However, Lomibao stood pat and defended the project, particularly the sale…
TRANSPORT organizations in Region 1 have endorsed the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) project, set to be implemented by the Land Transportation Office (LTO) in October, unless deferred by Malacañang or the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC). Benny Aquino, president of the Association of United Transport Organization-Provincewide (Auto-Pro), representing 22…
AFTER shutting down the operations of eight drug stores of Jan Mark Corporation in Pangasinan, Teodulo Paragas, chief of the Special Investigation Division of the BIR Regional Office, said about 80 more establishments, most of which are located in Pangasinan, remain in the watchlist. The closure order for the drug…
IT will be Pawil Dagupan for thousands of overseas Dagupenos this Christmas and during the Bangus Festival in April next year. This was disclosed by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez who led a delegation of Dagupan officials to the United States for the signing of a city-sisterhood agreement with Milpitas and…
FINALLY, PANGASINAN AIRPORT IN ALAMINOS—Transportation and Communication Secretary Leandro Mendoza (2nd from left) and Alaminos City Mayor Hernani Braganza seal the agreement for the construction of commercial airport in Alaminos City, the first in the province, with a firm handshake at the DOTC Office in Mandaluyong City on September 23….
MARKER FOR WW2 VETERANS—Pangasinan war veterans were honored anew by the provincial government with the installation of a new marker at the Veterans Memorial Park in Lingayen last September 22. At the unveiling ceremony were Gov. Amado Espino Jr. (2nd from right) with a World War II veteran, other government…
OPERATION KANDADO CLAIMS ANOTHER LINGAYEN–The ax has fallen on another tax cheat in Pangasinan. The Jan Mark Drug Store chain, with eight branches in different parts of the province, was closed last week by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) under its Operation Kandado.
MALASIQUI—Former Vice Governor Oscar Lambino lashed out at Mayor Armando Domantay anew for claiming that the controversial ordinance he used as basis in entering into a lease contract with Magic Group of Companies already lapsed into law and therefore valid. “On the contrary, it is not – an ordinance which…
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