LINGAYEN GULF FERRY PROJECT–City Mayors Hernani Braganza (center) of Alaminos and Alipio Fernandez Jr. (right) of Dagupan, and Engr. Rudy Ducusin, city planning and development officer of San Fernando City, La Union who represented San Fernando City Mayor Pablo Ortega, formalize the planned ferry project between the three cities through…
SO near yet so far. This may well be the case as even Dagupan Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. could not say when the Dawel-Pantal Road will finally be opened. The much-awaited highway, now in the final stages of construction and earlier announced to be completed by March 15, passes through…
Engr. Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada is coming to town to meet with Pangasinenses. Following an invitation from Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, a staunch critic of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the star witness in the NBN-ZTE broadband scandal will be in Dagupan City on April 4 for a “Mass for Truth, Justice and…
THIS year’s Bangus Festival will not just be a tourism spectacle but a big business promotion event. Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chairman of this year’s celebration, told local newsmen that the line-up of events had been finalized, all of which are geared towards providing entertainment and showcasing the city as…
NO RICE CRISIS IN PANGASINAN LINGAYEN–All agencies of the Department of Agriculture were mobilized by Governor Amado Espino Jr. on Monday to assist farmers in increasing rice production to avert a supposed looming rice crisis locally. Espino, stressing the urgent need to marshal all forces in order to intensify rice…
MAYOR Alipio Fernandez Jr.has reiterated his declaration that his administration is firm in its stand to cancel all tax declarations issued to private individuals now claiming portions of public lands in Bonuan Binloc. “I don’t even know how these people were able to secure such,” he said. The tax declarations…
VILLEGAS KIDNAPPING LINGAYEN— More than a week after the abduction of barangay chairman Roland Villegas, lawmen are still in the dark as to the motive for the disappearance of the former Councilor. Even Governor Amado Espino Jr. has expressed serious concern over the absence of any progress in the investigation…
BRIEFING ON REHAB PLANS—Gov. Amado Espino Jr. briefs to executives of the Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, National Irrigation Authority and the ABONO party list on the present agricultural status of the province during a meeting held at the President’s Hotel in Lingayen. Espino presented the…
READY FOR BANGUS FEST 2008—Dagupan City Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, overall chairman of this year’s Bangus Festival, discusses with local media the plans for the celebration highlighting the city as both tourist and business destination. (Punchphoto by Cesar S. Ramirez)
NO RANSOM DEMAND Task force Villegas formed SAN FABIAN- The police in Pangasinan seems to have been caught with their pants down again with yet another case of kidnapping perpetrated in San Fabian town at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. The victim this time is Roland Zerafin Villegas, former president of the…
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