A mere retake of the nurses’ exam will not resolve the issue. This is the contention of Dr. Gonzalo Duque, president of Lyceum-Northwestern University, who instead suggested a “win-win” solution. Duque, a lawyer, said while he welcomes the decision of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for all examinees to retake, he…
DAGUPAN CITY – The flooding in Pangasinan will continue until the damaged earth dikes in San Manuel, Binalonan, Urdaneta and Sta. Barbara are repaired. This was the observation of Department of Public Works and Highways Regional Director Fidel Ginez who indicated that his office cannot start to work on the…
BAWAL MAGKALAT—The Dagupan City government is campaigning for a cleaner Dagupan, but thought nothing about joining different business establishments in cluttering the city with streamers of all sorts, some dangerously attached to hanging telephone and cable lines. The streamers in the photo are strung up in the area near a…
GOOD TILL CHRISTMAS ONLY The Dagupan City council has joined the Christmas shopping fever by offering its own “discount” program to perk up business activities at the near empty second-floor of the Malimgas Public Market and hopefully buoy up the finances of the now cash-strapped city government. The plan is…
BAYAMBANG – A thirty-three hectare lot in barangay Dusoc this town was approved by the municipal council as the site for a sanitary landfill that will have the capacity to accommodate the wastes not only of Pangasinan but other towns and cities in neighboring provinces as well. However, the provincial…
Lingayen – Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz has warned against the passage of the Anti-Terrorism Bill, describing it as a “very dangerous bill” when passed at this time. Cruz said he fears that anybody who is critical of the administration, who will go on rallies and marches against the administration can…
MAYOR Benjamin Lim has urged all members of the private sector to help the city of Dagupan realize its vision to become a premier center of Northern Luzon Region by year 2030. In a talk with members of the private sector during a two-day consultative working session on Public Governance…
ALAMINOS CITY – A woman tagged as the ‘drug queen’ of Western Pangasinan was sentenced to life imprisonment in a decision handed down last Wednesday by Regional Trial Court, Branch 54 here. RTC Judge Jules Mejia penned the 28-page decision sentencing Delia Casipit who earned the monicker ‘shabu’ queen in…
THERE is an outbreak of a different type of fever in the province – the 2007 local election fever. Surveys are now being conducted by various political groups to determine who would likely be the favorites for the local posts, particularly the governorship. The results of two surveys (the first…
THE CONSTRUCTION IS ON – A boy plays on top of piles of bridge steel materials imported from Japan recently delivered by the contractor, Toyo Construction, along the unfinished Dawel-Pantal-Lucao road near Babaliwan. The delivery signals the start of the construction of the P903 million Pantal bridge. (Punchphoto by Butch…
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