TENSION HIGH IN ALAMINOS ALAMINOS CITY – Tension ran high in the coastal areas here last week due to alleged forcible takeover by the former mayor of Bolinao town and his men of properties believed to be outside the areas covered by a receivership order by the Regional Trial Court….
JUETENG is now making a comeback in Luzon a couple of months with a vengeance but not without a major twist in its operational structure and the determination of its finances. According to Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, chairman of Krusada ng Bayan Laban sa Jueteng, there now exists a powerful…
AT ‘TINDA’Y LABI’ THE prior agreement to pay the city government only P50 for every P300 from every exhibitor occupying a space of six square meters each in the “Tinda’y Labi” event still stands. This was clarified by event organizers, Badminton Association of Dagupan and the Dagupan “Bangus” Jaycees, who…
THERE appears no more hope in sight for the settlement of the long delayed P1,000 per month additional compensation allowance (adcom) for Dagupan City government employees since April this year. City Budget Officer Ildefonso Calimlim said there is no money in the city coffers to pay employees the P8,000 due…
SUAL – A new post-high school education exam will be introduced this year, with emphasis on both academic aptitude and technical-vocational skills, Education Secretary Jesli Lapus announced here. Lapus said the test, called the National Career Entrance Assessment (NCEA) which will be compulsory for all the 1.8 million senior high…
IS CITY HALL BIASED? – The sidewalk fronting the new bank building of the Bank of Philippine Islands branch in Dagupan City has narrowed considerably prompting sidewalk vendors who are being ejected and chased out of sidewalks and the regular pedestrians in the area to wonder if the city engineer’s…
CALL ON SUPREME PONTIFF – Eighty-two year old Monsignor Rufino Magliba (center), supreme pontiff of the Crusader of the DivineChurch of Christ, still hale and healthy, receives House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and Vice Gov. Oscar Lambino in his palace in barangay Magliba, San Fabian. The CDCC is now…
KITES MADE FROM CHINA-The sale of colorful kites, reportedly imported from China, of different sizes, colors and shapes, along the Judge Jose R. de Venecia highway in barangay Lasip, Calasiao has been brisk with motorists snapping the kites at P50 each. – (Punchphoto by Butch Uka)
HEAVY VEHICULAR TRAFFIC NOTED 63 exhibitors join first street bazaar THE ‘Tinda’y Labi’ in Dagupan City pushed through on Friday and Saturday as scheduled despite a fuss in the city council with only a temporary permit granted to organizers by Acting Mayor Alvin Fernandez. At least 63 exhibitors joined the…
IT will be a non-working holiday in Pangasinan on Monday, November 13, to commemorate the 110th birthday of the province’s foremost son, the late Speaker Eugenio Perez. This is provided for in Republic Act No. 6721, signed into law on March 20, 1989 by then President Corazon Aquino, declaring November…
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