THE 2008 Pista’y Dayat celebration promises to have the trimmings of a real summer treat that is uniquely Pangasinan as organizers of the annual sea festival finalized the series of week-long activities aimed at drawing a crowd bigger than in previous years’ celebrations. Every presentation will be “Pangasinan’s Best,” said…
THE Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) revealed that neap tide caused the sudden decrease in the level of dissolved oxygen (DO) of the water in the Caquiputan Channel between the towns of Bolinao and Anda, and is now threatening millions of pesos worth of bangus in captivity. Westly…
FINAL BRIEFING —Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chairperson of the Dagupan Bangus Festival 2008, meets with co-workers and volunteers helping her in the preparation for the events set on April 16 to May 4. Carefully planned by the group are the main features, the ‘Festival of the North Street Dancing Competition’…
SINCE NERI WON’T TALK Cruz: Mass-forum was good By Ermin Garcia Jr. IF CHED chair Romulo Neri continues to invoke executive privilege and won’t answer crucial questions about President Gloria Arroyo’s instructions and reactions regarding the national broadband deal, Engr. Jun Lozada will provide the answers. This was the assurance…
BEFORE whistle-blower Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada and his entourage of volunteers and nuns arrived in Dagupan City late Friday morning, the counsel of former Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos has already pitched camp in the city earlier meeting with allies of the Arroyo government. “Wherever Lozada goes, I will be…
LINGAYEN— Believe us…there is no shortage in the province. This assurance is oft- repeated by the National Food Authority’s (NFA) local office in the face of fears of rice shortage across the country. Edilberto Libatique, manager of the NFA office here, said there are 88,000 bags at 50 kilograms each…
SOME 100 owners of picnic sheds at Tondaligan Park have been given by the city government another grace period to settle their arrears in business taxes amounting to P1.7 million as of February 2008. City Engineer Virginia Rosario said Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. himself set the new grace period after…
THE search is on for the most “beautiful” bangus in Pangasinan. Dagupan City Councilor Lino Fernandez, chairman of the committee for the Bangus Rodeo of the 2008 Bangus Festival, called on all bangus raisers in the province to bring their “biggest, heaviest, longest and most beautiful” bangus on April 29…
ALAMINOS CITY—The memorandum of agreement (MOA) for the ferry project within the Lingayen Gulf between this city and the cities of Dagupan and San Fernando in La Union was signed on March 31 at the Welcome House at Lucap Wharf here. The MOA was signed by Alaminos City Mayor Hernani…
I’M NOT A POLITICIAN –Engr. Jun Lozada fields tells local media that contrary to black propaganda being spread about him that he has no political ambitions and has no intention to be a politician during the press conference in Dagupan City upon his arrival last Friday prior to the Mass…
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