WOW! GANDA! – A vendor pushing his food cart in the middle of a flooded street in Dagupan City is distracted by the sight of a comely young lady walking behind him. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
DAGUPAN City Mayor Brian Lim initially suspended work in government offices on October 12 by virtue of his Executive Order No. 35 due to the flooding in several areas in the city that affected residents. Lim again issued Executive Order 36, series of 2021 suspending work on October 14 (Thursday)…
THE impending operations of the Large-scale Offshore Mining Project in the Lingayen Gulf by Iron Ore Gold and Vanadium Resources Philippines Inc. will have a serious impact on the food requirement of nearly the whole country as well as the livelihood of thousands of fishermen in Pangasinan. This was the…
RESIDENTS of Urdaneta City were up in arms over what they deemed as sloppy routine inspection of the Servo-Treat Philippines Inc. waste treatment facility in Barangay Pinmaludpod by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). Residents earlier filed a complaint citing the malodorous air emanating from the facility only…
COLLATERAL DAMAGE OF OFFSHORE MINING – Fishermen at the Lingayen beach pull in their fish nets early morning unaware that they will be the first casualties of the impending offshore mining at the Lingayen Gulf if the provincial government cannot stop it. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
THE impending offshore large-scale mining activities in the Lingayen Gulf is in conflict with Presidential Proclamation No.156 issued by then President Fidel V. Ramos in 1993 that proclaimed the entire Lingayen Gulf as an environmentally critical area. This was the contention of Second District Board Member Von Mark Mendoza during…
THE provincial government had nothing to do with the impending large-scale offshore mining in the Lingayen Gulf to be undertaken by the Iron Ore and Vanadium Resources Philippines Inc. This was clarified by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan belying suspicions that it was the provincial government that initiated the project. Fourth District…
AFTER PAYING P100 DAILY TO CITY HALL THE small fish vendors that were recently allowed to sell under brand new tents along the sidewalk of a backstreet in front of the Magsaysay Fish Market but were told they can only sell for 3 hours trooped back to the Sangguniang Panlungsod…
FOR STRONG IMMUNE SYSTEM – A mother picks out an apple from a vendor’s cart in Dagupan City to help boost her child’s immune system. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao)
GOV. Amado Espino III signed on Sept. 24 a P500-M loan agreement with Land Bank of the Philippines, the bulk of which will be used for the procurement of palay to help marginalized farmers free themselves from the strangle-hold of rice traders. Farmers have since complained to extremely low buying…
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