THE three missing barges customized as riverboats for the Dawel River Cruise were found by the police ditched and moored beside properties of Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim. As initial police investigation showed, employees of Magic Group walked into the “Daongan ed Dawel” pulled out the three barges used for the Dawel…
LINGAYEN—Senior Superintendent Marlou Chan, the provincial police director, is sticking to his post despite a legal case filed by a popular governor seeking his ouster and a plea from the provincial board. “Let’s us allow the court to decide and for the meantime we just continue with our job. We…
A TASK force has been formed by Dagupan Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez to look at the effects on the city’s rivers and fishponds of the reported mine tailings upstream that affected the San Roque Multi-purpose reservoir in San Manuel town. Mine waste was dumped into the reservoir following the tailing…
A FORMER mayor and a municipal treasurer of Tayug have been convicted of malversation charges for misappropriating public funds amounting to P787, 700 in 2001. Ex-Mayor Marius Ladio and then officer-in-charge Municipal Treasurer Virgilio Arquero were found guilty of Malversation of Public Funds as contained in Article 217 of the…
AN endangered turtle species, the Cantor’s giant soft-shell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii), was found in a rice land in Urbiztondo town and turned over Wednesday to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) center in Dagupan City. Farmer Richard Aquino came across the turtle, also known as the Asian giant…
LINGAYEN—Dengue cases around the province decreased by 50 percent from January to June 3 this year with 363 cases recorded compared to 666 in the same period last year. However, 11 areas remain under the Provincial Health Office’s (PHO) dengue watch list, namely: the cities of San Carlos and Alaminos,…
SAN MANUEL– The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) will pilot a nationwide simultaneous earthquake drill here with a scripted scenario of a possible overtopping and seepage of the San Roque Dam. Regional Director Melchito Castro of the Office of Civil Defense said the drill scheduled on June…
WHALE SHARKS IN SAN FABIAN—One of the four whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) that frolic at the Lingayen Gulf is captured on camera noon of May 28, 2013 in the waters off San Fabian beach. Whale sharks are the biggest known fish species. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE tarpaulin announcing the Lim administration’s contentious Maternal, Children and Lying-in Hospital was taken down on Thursday by the City Engineer’s Office, a clear indication that it will no longer be pursued by the incoming administration of Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez. Fernandez, the mayor-elect of Dagupan who will officially start her term…
ON its 49th year and 17th annual conference, the Philippine Press Institute, the national association of newspapers, will re-examine the journalism practice in the country and assess how newspapers are surviving in the digital age in this year’s National Press Forum (NPF) “Watching the Watchdog: Re-examining Ourselves” on June 13 and 14…
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