City government hits back at Decorp

Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

By Analiza Q. Leyba

Baniqued: Poles, transformers subject of RPT
A protracted legal battle between the Dagupan City government and the Dagupan Electric Corporation looms ahead after the city government filed a counterclaim in response to the civil case recently filed by the electric company.
The issue at hand is whether the city government should collect real [...]

Sec. Yap outlines 'Super Region' potentials

Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

The northern part of the country is targeted to be developed into the North Luzon Agribusiness Quadrangle "Super Region" to become the food basket not only in the Philippines but also North Asia.
This was disclosed by Secretary and Presidential Management Staff director general Arthur Yap  when he presided over a meeting  with governors, mayors  [...]

DOH warns vs. rise of dengue cases

Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

LINGAYEN - The dreaded dengue hemorrhagic fever has already claimed nine lives in different towns and cities in this province since July to date.
Records of the Provincial Health Office showed there were three fatalities, one each in the towns of Basista, Sison and Alaminos City in the month of July.
From Aug 1 to [...]

Workers seek delayed adcom

Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

When it rains, it certainly pours for the Dagupan City government.
THE cash-strapped city government has had to shelve its reorganization plan owing to lack of funds but its problems are still far from over because its employees are now requesting the payment of their additional compensation (adcom) allowance due for the period April to [...]

WHO KNOWS BETTER?

Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment

WHO KNOWS BETTER? - Ramon Versa (right), chief of operations and control of the San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC), maintains previous statement before the Sangguning Panlungsod of Dagupan that 20 per cent of the water being released downstream of the Agno river from the dam's spillways goes out through a five-kilometer breach of a dike [...]

Conflicting views betray SRPC

Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

Is it possible that officials of the San Roque Power Corporation that manages the San Roque Multi-Purpose Project don't really know much about its operations?
This became evident when two of its key officials issued contradicting statements about the direction of water spilled downstream from the dam when the latter's spillways are opened.   
Tom Valdez, [...]

No jueteng - cop chief, 11 barangay captains

Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment

THE police and the barangay captains in Dagupan City vehemently denied that jueteng has resumed operations in the city just like the rest of Pangasinan.
Supt. Edgar Basbas, police chief here, branded as ridiculous the accusation leveled against his office that it is tolerating jueteng operation and maintained that there are no draws being held [...]

Lambino cites role of campus writers in RP's global reach

Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment

TAYUG - The media, or the 'Fourth Estate', remains the strongest bastion of democratic freedom, according to Vice Gov. Oscar Lambino who spoke before 200 student journalists in a two-day seminar at the Luna Colleges here.
"The power of media to shape and influence people's lives, the affairs of nations, the development program of government has [...]

Resuello's dredging 'miracles'

Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under Business, Inside News, News | Leave a Comment

SAN CARLOS CITY - While some parts of Dagupan City complain of incessant flooding the past weeks, San Carlos boasts the city has been flood- free, thanks to its project "Six-in- One".
Mayor Jolly Resuello said the project being undertaken by the city government along the Rio Laguna de Vega in barangay Lilimasan this city [...]

NO WATER IN SPILLWAY

Posted on August 22, 2006 - Filed Under Business, Inside News, News, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment

NO WATER IN SPILLWAY - Three newsmen stand on a deck of the San Roque dam in San Manuel to view the dam's spillway amid reports that the structure releases water downstream to the Agno River and causes flooding in central Pangasinan. The visit was part of the tour of power facilities arranged for the [...]

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