TAYUG—This town is under close watch by the police after the bodyguards of the two highest officials of Tayug clashed on January 18 in broad daylight at the town plaza. Wounded in that incident were Bimbo Clutario and Ruben Sotero Jr., bodyguards of Mayor Carlos Trese Mapili who were…
LAND PROBE—Members of the Task Force on Housing and Urban Poor Resettlement meet at the Bonuan Binloc hall on Friday hosted by Barangay Captain Ronaldo Torio, attended by Department of Environment and Natural Resources officials. Applicants were also invited to the meeting.
MAY THE BEST TOWN WIN Mayor Velasco seeks foreign investors STA. BARBARA–This town is not giving up on its bid to be the site of an international airport in the province as promised by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Mayor Reynaldo Velasco, bent on making Sta. Barbara the airport site, said he…
WAS it all a bluster and mere chutzpah? This was asked by many when not a single illegal structure was demolished one week after a task force from the Dagupan City government moved in what appeared to be a firm action against illegal claims over public land in the beach…
A TASK force of the city government will soon ask the city council to pass a resolution requesting President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to amend Proclamation No. 98 and name the city government as the owner, and not merely as an administrator, of the former National Children’s Park in Bonuan. The…
LINGAYEN-Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan belied claims that the Lingayen airfield is affected by crosswind from the Lingayen Gulf which is bad for aviation. Defending the need for the expansion of the Lingayen airfield, Baraan said there are up to 10 trainer planes landing there daily, which would not be there…
(Special contribution by Eva Visperas) Old age and illness are not enough to stop this 76-year old Dominican nun who has already spent 50 golden years in her perpetual profession. Sr. Evelina Enerva, O.P., who belongs to the Congregation of Religious Missionaries of St. Dominic, and pastoral committee coordinator of…
ALAMINOS CITY—The first-ever ferry system in the Ilocos Region is targeted to be in place by June this year, according to the project’s prime-mover Mayor Hernani Braganza. Braganza said the test run for a 30-seater ferry in the vast expanse of the Lingayen Gulf, to be attended by Mayors Alipio…
BONUAN BINLOC BEACHFRONT RACKET THE campaign of the Dagupan City to regain the shoreline of Bonuan from affluent squatters is now meeting stiff resistance from the latter, with a new trick. After Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. issued an executive order canceling all the Tax Declaration Certificates (TDCs) over public lots…
LINGAYEN–“I will do my part.” This was the response of Undersecretary Antonio Villar Jr., head of the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG), to the appeal of Gov. Amado Espino Jr. to help curb the smuggling of agricultural products into the province. Espino made the appeal when Villar attended the capital town’s…
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