MAKING A STATEMENT—Street children, Dagupan’s most vulnerable sector in the global problem on poverty, makes a symbolic statement by tearing up the pieces of paper on which letters for the word POVERTY were written during the observance of the National Children’s Month by the Dagupan City SK Federation. (CIO Photo…
DON’T VIOLATE FIREARMS LAW! POLICE Director General Jesus Verzosa, chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP), has backed up the distribution of shotguns by the provincial government to the province’s barangay chairmen (kapitans) but qualified that there should be no violation of the firearms law. Interviewed by newsmen when he…
PNP Chief Director General Jesus Verzosa vowed to make the Dagupan City Police station as one of the model stations in the country. “We hope that in the future, this police station would become a model station project,” he said as he led the laying of the cornerstone and ground-breaking…
TAYUG– Supporters of Vice Mayor Janet Zaragoza have been holding a 24-hour vigil outside her office to ensure that her opponent in the May 2007 election, former vice mayor Madelyn Cabotaje-Ramirez, does not take over the post. A Regional Trial Court (RTC), ruling on an election protest filed by Ramirez,…
URDANETA–The row over appointment of excess casual employees of the Sangguniang Bayan here is far from over. Some legal experts in the city are now considering filing legal action against Vice Mayor Julio Parayno for using the Maintenance and Other Operating Expenses (MOOE) fund of his office to pay for…
THOUSANDS of sari-sari store owners and prospective entrepreneurs are expected to participate in the 2nd Ilocos Region Sari-Sari Store Fair on October 24 to 26 in Dagupan City. Dagupan City Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez said the three-day fair, a sequel to last year’s event, will be held at the CSI…
BINMALEY–Not many of them eventually became priests, but all of them cherish their time as teen seminarians and credit the Catholic formation they received for who they have become. That period in their lives — characterized by mischievousness in the midst of the seminary’s rigid routine life — is celebrated…
SOON A MODEL DAGUPAN CITY POLICE STATION—PNP Chief Director General Jesus Verzosa and his wife, assisted by Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. and Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, lay the time capsule during the groundbreaking ceremony for a modern Dagupan City Police at A. B. Fernanadez Avenue West in Dagupan. The new…
‘Ghosts’ and patrons in government halls WHAT is most frightening about the phenomenon of ‘ghost’ employees is that it is old and continues to thrive healthily. In May 1966, The Sunday PUNCH founder Ermin Garcia Sr. was shot in his office after a Lingayen councilor tried to stop the publication…
REP. Arthur Celeste of the First District vowed to resign from his post if a document can be presented that his office officially issued firearms to barangay chairmen as alleged in a sworn affidavit presented during a press conference called by Alaminos Mayor Hernani Braganza last September 25. Celeste, in…
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