HELP FROM THE CAPITOL—Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. hands a P10,000 check as financial aid of the province to one of the kin of the 44 fatalities from Typhoon “Emong” in a simple ceremony at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center last June 25. Assisting the Governor is Provincial…
TENSION RISES IN SITIO RUSSIA NO demolition, only relocation. This was stressed by City Legal Officer George Mejia, as he clarified the circumstances that led to a violent clash between informal settlers and the policemen accompanying a team from the city government armed with crow bars and hammers and wearing…
The Dagupan City government belittled a recent petition of informal settlers of Sitio Russia in Bonuan Binloc asking President Gloria Arroyo to set aside and proclaim the land which they now occupy as an official site for housing and settlement. City Legal Officer George Mejia received a copy of the…
LINGAYEN–No one usually gets “picked up” in his residence by the police unless one is considered a suspect in a reported crime. This impression was not lost to 16-year old Luigi Maramba when he saw a police car in front of his house in Barangay Poblacion, Mangaldan town on returning…
THE Office of the Ombudsman has taken cognizance of the buried expired medicines and medical equipment in two separate sites of the provincial capitol compound and will send its investigators to help determine culpabilities. This was gleaned in a letter received by Governor Amado Espino Jr. on June 15 from…
The Dagupan police and the city’s Barangay Health Workers finally agreed to collaborate in the campaign to flush out abortionists in the city after a heated exchange between the two sectors. The reconciliation was reached during last week’s session of the city council but not after the police officer, who…
ALCALA– Malacañang has stepped into the controversy over construction of a right of way for Phase 2 of the big Agno River Flood Control Project (ARFCP) in Pangasinan. In the middle of the controversy are thousands of mahogany trees planted smack in the middle of the planned right of way…
SITIO RUSSIA CLASH—Policemen in riot gear and residents of Sitio Russia in Bonuan Binloc clash at the entrance of the compound on June 15 as the city government team works its way in to help relocate families who agreed to move to the Gawad Kalinga-Bangusville II in Sitio Korea were….
BUY MAHOGANY TREES OR ELSE—Presidential Management Staff Secretary Hermogenes Esperon Jr. pores over a schematic map of the Agno River Flood Control Project showing the location of the mahogany trees blocking a closure dike and approaching channel in Barangay Laoac West, Alcala, In background is the tree plantation. (Punchphoto by…
RECONCILIATION—Barangay Health Worker Federation president Roberta Biason and P/Insp. Marites Aradanas of the Dagupan PNP shake hands as a gesture of reconciliation after a public hearing at the Sangguniang Panlungsod on June 15. The Sangguniang Panlungsod, presided by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, played a role ending the rift between Biason,…
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