In a bid to downplay the ill effects of the presence of coliform bacteria in the city’s rivers, city officials continue to issue clarifications.  The latest is from the City Health Office. It said fecal coliform tends to affect humans more than it does aquatic creatures. City Health Officer Leonard…

The Dagupan City government recently attempted to demolish four rest houses of known affluent families, mostly non-city residents, found squatting along the shoreline in Bonuan Gueset, near the MacArthur Park. But the demolition was blocked by Bonuan Gueset’s Barangay Captain Rico Mejia who protested what he described as a discriminatory…

THERE will be no jueteng in Dagupan.       This was the city mayor’s standing order to the city’s police station. “There is no place for jueteng and other kinds of illegal gambling like hataw in Dagupan City,” said Mayor Benjamin Lim as he reiterated the city government ‘s position vis-à-vis…

DAGUPAN CITY – While international media groups and the Arroyo Administration debate the true state of Philippine media, Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz has made known his own assessment. “The Philippine media is facing the “ABC curse”: Anxiety, Bribery and Corruption,” was how he described the media environment. Cruz, himself a…

 CITY AGRICULTURE OFFICE CLAIMS COLIFORM bacteria would not kill the bangus, neither would it kill a person. This was how City Agriculturist Emma Molina described the hazard posed by the bacteria in reaction to PUNCH’s report confirming the existence of coliform bacteria in the city’s rivers above the acceptable levels….

LINGAYEN – The illegal numbers game called jueteng again reared its ugly head in Pangasinan, defying one of its favorite sons, Police Director General Arturo Lomibao. Gov. Victor Agbayani admitted during an interview in Alcala town that some towns may now be backsliding and have allowed the illegal numbers to…

THREE multi-million peso bridges in Pangasinan will be inaugurated in July and another bridge in December, according to Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. De Venecia announced this Thursday after conferring with Public Works Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane in Manila. Aside from this, the new Pantal Bridge funded by a P900 million…

ALCALA – Move over, Dagupan City. Alcala will likely be the next world’s record-holder for the longest barbecue…and the longest grill. And not even an hour long rain last Saturday prevented the Alcalanians from going for the records. A jubilant Mayor Manuel Collado believed that they were able to register…

CHED CERTIFIES FINALLY, the real story is out. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has confirmed the nursing Program of the Lyceum-Northwestern University in Dagupan City is not among those being monitored and reassessed for possible closure by the commission’s technical Committee on Nursing Education. In a letter to L-NU…