URDANETA CITY– Fourth District Board Member Jeremy Rosario, a medical doctor, is set to present a resolution that will set guidelines on the authorized and proper use of government ambulances. Rosario denounced how local officials and employees have been using ambulances for personal and other functions other than responding to…
VALENTINE’S DAY ALAMINOS CITY—With the majestic Hundred Islands serving as a backdrop, 158 couples tied the knot in a mass civil wedding here at sunset on Valentine’s Day. This now annual event is Alaminos City’s own way of legitimizing unions of couples sans the benefit of a wedding ceremony and…
Broadband technology expert Jose de Venecia III will lead speakers at the two-day 2008 Regional Information and Communications Technology Congress in Dagupan City on February 26 – 27 at the Don Alipio Fernandez Sr. Astrodome. Aside from De Venecia, the other speakers are ICT Commissioner Monchito Ibrahim, Philippine Association of…
Still feeling bitter about her husband’s, Rep. Jose de Venecia Jr., ouster as House Speaker, Gina de Venecia celebrated her February 15 birthday this year quietly in contrast to her usual big parties. Speaking during a radio program on Aksyon Radyo, Mrs. De Venecia said she opted for a “quiet”…
A GRILL FOR THE GUINNESS—Townsfolk of Sto.Tomas take part in the almost five-kilometer corn grill set up at the roadside on February 10 in a bid to break the Guinness Record for longest barbecue, the major event in the celebration of their first Corn Festival and the municipality’s centennial anniversary….
ON THE ROAD TO COMPLETION—Construction workers rush to finish the bridge (crossing Pantal River) of the P1.2-billion Dawel-Pantal-Lucao diversion road expected to be completed by mid-March, six months ahead of the original September target. (Punchphoto by Cesar S. Ramirez)
SUNSET WEDDING ON 100 ISLES—More than a hundred couples in Alaminos take part in the annual mass wedding sponsored by the city government on Valentine’s Day at the Lucap Wharf overlooking the famous Hundred Islands National Park. (Photo by CSR)
A POST-MORTEM Usec Villar comes to her rescue MALASIQUI–Third District Rep. Rachel Arenas expressed her personal pain even as she belied malicious insinuations that money changed hands when congressmen voted on a House resolution declaring the position of House Speaker vacant on Monday. “There was no money involved,” said Arenas,…
EVERYONE agrees the province lost and can lose a lot more following the ouster of 4th District Rep. Jose De Venecia Jr. as House Speaker. Even the Pangasinan congressmen who unexpectedly voted “yes” to the ouster of De Venecia expressed fears that his ouster will affect the delivery of projects…
DAGUPAN City’s hope to recover its 30-hectare land in barangay Awai, San Jacinto, which it lost to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program in 2004, appears to be getting dimmer. The city government admitted it cannot meet the deadline set by the Department of Agrarian Reform to submit a topographical map…
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