A belen-making contest, designed to add glitter to the 2007 Dagupan City Fiesta and the yuletide season, was launched Tuesday with the support of the 31 barangays in the city. Belen, the Filipino term for Bethlehem, refers to the depiction of the nativity scene when Jesus Christ was born in…
DAGUPAN BEAUTIES–Twenty one of the 31 candidates representing the 31 barangays of Dagupan City gamely pose for the photographers after the final screening at the Dagupan City Museum on Friday November 16. Pageant will be on December 18 at the City Plaza. Coronation Night will be on December 26. (Punchphoto…
GMA SWEARS IN BARANGAY CHAIRMEN–President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is flanked by the mother and daughter team of Rep. Rachel Arenas and philanthropist Rosemary ‘Baby’ Arenas as she inducts on Thursday all the newly elected and reelected barangay officials of Pangasinan’s Third District during Rep. Arenas’ birthday in Nancapian, Malasiqui. (Punchphoto by…
DENR REVS UP HOPE THE vision for a sensible waste management system in Pangasinan is not yet lost. No less than the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has declared that the proposed multi-million peso sanitary landfill in Bayambang town could not be deemed a failure as the project…
THE Dawel-Lucao Diversion Road project, which started construction in 2002, will be completed and opened by March 2008, said Engr. Fidel Ginez, regional director of the Department of Public Works and Highways. Ginez, in an interview with The PUNCH, said the P1.249-billion road project, considered as the biggest so far…
PROVINCIAL election officers (EO) won’t be celebrating Pangasinan Day on Tuesday, November 13. Instead, they are trooping to the Commission on Election (Comelec) head office in Manila to lobby for the release of unpaid honoraria to teachers amounting to P21.5 million. Teachers who served as board of election tellers during…
CALASIAO-Please give us more time. This was the joint plea raised by the mayors in the province to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in response to warnings recently issued for the compliance to the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act or R.A. 9003. The law mandates local government…
IT is a working visit aimed at promoting Pangasinan. This was how Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan described the trip to the United States of Gov. Amado Espino Jr. that began November 4 until the 22nd. Espino left the reins of the provincial government in the hands of Vice Governor Marlyn…
PANGASINAN DAY LINGAYEN-It will be a special non-working public holiday in the province on November 12, to observe Pangasinan Day, in lieu of November 13, to commemorate the 111th birthday anniversary of the late Speaker Eugenio Perez. Governor Amado Espino Jr., had written Malacañang asking permission to move the non-working…
KOREAN VISITORS—Mayor Alipio Fernandez (second from right) presents a copy of the coffee table book ‘Nandaragupan’ to Korean officials who came to Dagupan on Nov. 6 to conduct a preliminary survey and on-site inspection of the city’s proposed fish processing project to be funded by a grant from the Korean…
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