THE TREE-CUTTING BEGINS ANEW – A signboard is posted on the highway informing the public that the ongoing tree-cutting activity along the Urdaneta-Sta. Barbara-Calasaio highway is permitted by the DENR while personnel and equipment from the DPWH and the Provincial Engineering Office are busily cutting mango trees simultaneously on both sides…
UNLESS and until the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) and the Sangguniang Panlalawigan grant the jeepney operators’ request for the extension of the deadline for the implementation of the Local Transport Route Plan (LTRP), there will be no traditional jeepneys on the streets to serve commuters after March…
3 DEAD, 32 INJURED THREE persons were killed and 32 persons injured when a mini dump truck that was overloaded with 35 passengers fell from a hill when it developed engine trouble along the newly built Daang Katutubo in Sitio Mapita, Barabgay Laoag in Aguilar at about 6:00 p.m. on…
DAGUPAN City Mayor Belen Fernandez ordered the police to step up its monitoring of activities inside bars and night clubs after video footages of young girls shamelessly getting wild inside the establishments and were being shared on social media. She gave the order in her speech during the flag ceremony…
By Leonardo Micua I WAS no longer surprised at all when the DPWH commenced its stalled cutting of overgrown trees, especially mango trees, from Barangay Tebag in Sta. Barbara to Calasiao and up to the boundary of Dagupan and Calasiao. DPWH was rushing to finish its old road widening…
By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo YESTERDAY, a friend of mine was talking about how she felt differently towards a former colleague. She remembered him as one who had a deprecating way of looking at things, but lately she said, she realized that it was probably because it was his way…
By Farah G. Decano CONGRATULATIONS to Atty. Jason Mejia, a L-NU College of Law alumnus, for clinching the presidency of the IBP Pangasinan Chapter last weekend. His triumph did not surprise me at all because his relations with fellow lawyers have always been on the level. He certainly treats…
By Eva C. Visperas FOR two weeks now, I couldn’t help but overthink and wonder about the approved Sangguniang Panlalawigan resolution authorizing Gov. Monmon Guico to negotiate and enter into a loan agreement with the Land Bank of the Philippines in the whooping amount of six billion pesos (P6-B)….
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE talk in Philippine sports last week was about the two-day basketball skirmishes of the FIBA World Cup Asia qualifying sixth window hosted by our country both held at the 50,000 seater Philippine Arena in Bocaue, Bulacan. We, ardent buffs of basketball, watched on…
By Rex Catubig YEARS ago we had lunch at the Dulag, Binmaley bucolic church grounds as our high school classmate, Fr Jon Songcuan, was assigned there. After eating, Fr Jon toured us around. As we walked past the circular-domed chapel, having some discussion about the state of the…
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