`Chedeng` exacts heavy toll in Dagupan, Pangasinan
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LINGAYEN-Typhoon Chedeng and the heavy rains it brought left 39 municipalities underwater, caused deaths to 12 persons killed and P49,197,060 worth of losses in fisheries, livestock, crops and infrastructure.
Based on a report from the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC) submitted to Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes, chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council when President Gloria [...]
San Roque denies any water release
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SAN MANUEL—It would take nine more typhoons as strong as typhoon ‘ 'Chedeng’ before the San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam Project here would spill water to the lowlands.
The statement made by retired Admiral Virgilio Marcelo, vice president of the San Roque Power Corporation only showed how vast the reservoir is of the San Roque dam, built [...]
Ordinance ratifies transaction –Vice Mayor
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The locomotive carrying the controversial streetlights was simply unstoppable.
This was the frustration aired by Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez who said some critical issues were left unanswered when an ordinance approving a P10 million supplemental budget for the city streetlights was passed by the city council last Monday.
He felt that since the ordinance was effectively [...]
MCAdore Hotel is safe
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A former Dagupan city engineer and retired director of the Department of Public Works and Highways testified in court last Monday that the MC Adore Hotel where the city government is relocating vendors soon is safe.
Alfredo Tangco, city engineer here from 1973 to 1990 and director of the DPWH from 1990 to 1995, was among [...]
Dagupan City in state of calamity
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RESPONDING to the crisis at hand, the Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan declared the city under the state of calamity during an emergency session last Wednesday.
Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez said Resolution No. 4140-2003 declaring the a state of calamity was necessary to enable the barangay officials to respond to the critical needs of the city [...]
Llamas: Streetlight ordinance 'useless'
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WILL the supplier of the 420 lamp posts installed by the city, initially without an ordinance supporting it, be finally paid right after the city council passed an ordinance approving a P10 million supplemental budget for the project?
Some think so but lawyer Victor Llamas Jr. of the Coalition of Concerned Citizens for Reforms Justice and [...]
