LINGAYEN–Help is finally on the way. Governor Victor Agbayani has assured help to the families of fishermen whose motorboats were capsized by huge waves off the high seas in Scarborough Shoal at the South China Sea on December 16, 2006. Agbayani said the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO)…
AT least 157 people in various parts of the province were injured from firecrackers at the height of the celebration on New Year’s Eve, a report of the Department of Health (DOH) Region 1 based in La Union said. Based on the report, Dagupan City registered the most number of…
RE-ELECTION as mayor or a re-taking of the congressional seat? Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim said he is still awaiting the result of a survey he commissioned before deciding which position he will aspire for in the May election. Asked by one of the 16 barangay chairmen who paid a courtesy…
NEW YEAR’S DAY FIRE—Superintendent Edgar Basbas (left), standing on top of the roof of one house, watches two firemen train their hoses at the houses that caught fire at noon of New Year’s Day in barangay Pantal in Dagupan City due to firecracker explosion. – (Punchphpoto by Ray Zambrano)
DAGUPAN CHRISTMAS EVE SHOCKER Police say robbery was motive Can anything ever justify the violent deaths of three hotel staff on Christmas eve over the hotel’s P44,000 cash? The bloody scene in the lobby so shocked the city that the Dagupan police worked overtime to solve the case and eventually…
THE debate over the controversial Magsaysay Park deal will continue in the city council and in other venues even if the resolution granting authority to Mayor Benjamin Lim to sign a contract with Metrostate Realty Corporation had already been approved by a vote of 8-3 during a special session last…
DagupeÑos finally had the opportunity to hear opposition Congressman Alan Peter Cayetano of Taguig-Pateros say in person what they only read, hear and watch on national media. Speaking Wednesday during the Barangay Night of the Dagupan City fiesta, Cayetano expressed his disgust over the determination of the Arroyo administration to…
TAYUG — A big group of hog raisers from Pangasinan has called on President Gloria Arroyo to revive the Presidential Anti-Smuggling Task Force and finally stop the rampant smuggling of pork from China (and Hong Kong) to save the country’s P120 billion hog industry from total collapse. The call was…
BOLINAO – People residing along the coastal villages in the province, particularly in the western area, panicked Tuesday night and quickly evacuated to upland areas after an alert was sounded about a possible tsunami hitting the area. Chief Inspector Mario Estrada, police chief of this town, told The PUNCH that…
BEATING THE COMELEC DEADLINE—Voters crowd the office of the Commission on Elections at the City Hall in Dagupan City last December 29 for a last chance to register or transfer their registration that will enable them to vote in the May 2007 national and local elections. All Comelec offices throughout…
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