RECLAMATION activities at the Calmay River have already grounded to a halt since January 16 but the company behind the project said it will appeal the cease and desist order issued by the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB). Dagupan City Legal Officer George Mejia said 888 Dagupan Properties Inc. has all…
THE dumping of human wastes in the Lingayen Gulf by the Dagupan City Jail finally got the goat of the Dagupan City council. Councilor Jose Tamayo, chair of the committee on tourism, cited THE PUNCH for exposing the continued dumping of human wastes at the Lingayen Gulf by the city…
SAN CARLOS CITY– An oversight in simple administrative requirement by the national government has resulted in a dilemma for hundreds of newborn babies and their parents. Babies born since January 1 at the Pangasinan Provincial Hospital (PPH) have remained unregistered as the government-owned hospital. Reason? It has run out of…
LINGAYEN–The provincial unit of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) here was adjudged the country’s Best Criminal Investigation and Detection Team for 2008. Chief Inspector Rizalino Prado, CIDG provincial director, told local newsmen that their accomplishments last year, including the arrest of more than 100 wanted persons and the…
DR. MacArthur M. Samson, president of the University of Luzon, was voted president of the National Association of Higher Education Institutions (NAHEI) in Region I. SAMSON The election last January 16 at the President’s Hotel in Lingayen, participated in by all college presidents and heads in Region 1, was attended…
MANGALDAN BEAUTIES—Candidates for Miss Mangaldan 2009 frolic at the poolside of Leisure Coast in Dagupan City when they were presented to the media as part of pre-pageant activities. The talent competition is scheduled on February 7 and the pageant night will be on February 14, both in Mangaldan. (Punchphoto by…
COMPANY FINED P50,000 THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) finally stopped the reclamation project on a portion of the Calmay River in Dagupan. Regional Director Joel Salvador of the DENR’s Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) and Atty. Joseph Estrella, a lawyer of DENR, served the cease and desist order…
INVESTIGATION and prosecution of suspects involved in the big shabu laboratory busted on July 9 last year in Barangay Bimmotobot in Naguilian, La Union is not yet over. This means that the police officers, including former Dagupan Police Chief Dionicio Borromeo, implicated in the case are not off-the-hook just yet.
THE Dagupan City Council passed the city’s comprehensive health and sanitation code in its regular session on Monday, a move that City Health Officer Leonardo Carbonell described as a “milestone in legislation”. Carbonell hailed the sanitation code, authored by Councilors Jesus Canto and Michael Fernandez, which incorporated all national laws…
LINGAYEN–The police provincial director is always smiling, but the members of the provincial board are not. Reason? The board members feel they are being deliberately snubbed by Senior Supt. Percival Barba, who assumed post his post four months ago, noting that the latter has repeatedly failed to appear before the…
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