THE stalled P1.5 billion Agno River Flood Control Project in Alcala will be finished without uprooting a single mahogany tree of the 10,000 trees planted on its path. Engr. Fidel Ginez, director of the Agno Floor Control Office, said a two-meter high parapet wall will be constructed as an alternative…
THE Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) is finally constructing a facility within the district jail compound in Dagupan for the disposal of the jail’s waste water instead of it being discharged into the beach and the Lingayen Gulf. This was reported by the Community Environment and Natural Resources…
THE tidal floods in Dagupan are here to stay. Two engineers of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) have opined that there is practically no solution to the long-standing and perennial flooding in parts of the city caused by high tide as the problem is now worsened by…
THE SHOOTOUT—P/Chief Supt. Ramon Gatan (left), director of Police Regional Office I, and P/Supt. Mariano Luis Verzosa Jr., Dagupan police chief, field questions from the media shortly after five suspected members of a kidnap-for-ransom and robbery holdup group were killed in a shootout with lawmen past midnight Wednesday along the…
LIVING WITH TIDAL FLOOD—Children are forced to walk through the flood on their way to school owing to the daily tidal flooding in parts of Dagupan. Department of Public Works and Highways officials have said that there is no solution to the problem and Dagupenos should now learn to live…
DAGUPAN CITY GOVERNMENT HELPLESS THE daily flooding in Dagupan due to tidal rise adversely affecting business establishments and schools near river banks is getting worse. At least two schools have been forced to adopt a double shifting method and hold special classes on Saturdays to make sure that pupils are…
The question comes to mind amid a new debate about the cause of flooding in the city rages. Is the constant flooding in Dagupan caused by global warming or by a claim that the parts of the city have sunk lower after the 1990 earthquake? Assistant City Engineer Mar Prado…
LINGAYEN–Finally, the leader and three members of the notorious Colisao Gang, involved in gun-for-hire and robbery activities, were arrested on July 20 in one of the group’s safe houses in Umingan. Combined elements of the local, provincial and regional police finally arrested the suspects in a house in Barangay San…
WHILE eight patients were confirmed to have been infected with A (H1N1) influenza in Pangasinan, no single case was recorded in Dagupan City, according to the Center for Health Development of the Department of Health. City Health Officer Leonard Carbonell, however, said even if no positive case is reported in…
CALASIAO–The six popular seafood restaurants in the province that were padlocked by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) for failure to pay the right amount of taxes, are now back in business after settling their dues. Lawyer Tomas Rosales, BIR regional director based here, told The PUNCH that the closure…
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