San Roque welcomes suit over water spillage
Posted on September 17, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
SAN MANUEL - The San Roque Power Corporation welcomes any suit to be filed by any group that still believes that the water from the dam is flooding central Pangasinan, particularly Urdaneta City, Sta. Barbara, Calasiao and Dagupan City during the rainy season.
Tom Valdez, SRPC spokesman, said while they cannot do anything if somebody goes [...]
Colorum van operations probe urged
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LINGAYEN - The provincial board wants Gov. Victor Agbayani to create a task force that will look into the continuous illegal operation of hundreds of colorum vans plying different routes in Pangasinan posing serious risks to commuters.
Vice Gov. Oscar Lambino said the resolution approved Friday by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan seeks to "find alternatives to [...]
SP passes edict on school fraternities
Posted on September 17, 2006 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
A city ordinance regulating all school organizations, particularly fraternities in elementary and high schools in Dagupan City is in place.
The Sanggunian Panlungsod finally decided to pass the ordinance last Monday after the barangay captain of Bonuan Boquig, Carinio Aquino, related to the city council the series of mischief committed by a fraternity at the [...]
Lingayen town told to stop prostitution
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LINGAYEN - The provincial administrator has called on the municipal government of Lingayen to act on reports that prostitution along the beach front of the capital town has proliferated.
Provincial Administrator Virgilio Solis is referring to a spot on the beachfront that has earned the monicker "Boracay" that rents out sheds and cottages for "short-time" [...]
Lim urges Muñoz to settle Liga discord
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ABSENTEEISM appears to have plagued the city government.
Dagupan City's Liga ng mga Barangay president Eric Muñoz was again the subject of the collective complaints of the different councils and punong barangays for his regarding his perennial absences in the meetings of the Liga and in the Sangguniang Panlungsod sessions.
And Mayor Benjamin Lim finally wrote [...]
Lingayen-Binmaley diversion road set for completion soon
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LINGAYEN - Finally, the work on the Lingayen-Binmaley diversion road will be completed before December this year.
This assurance came from the 2nd Pangasinan Engineering District amid increasing complaint about the traffic build-up in the area.
District Engineer Rodolfo Dion said the contractor of the project was given a time frame to finish the work and [...]
Employees join month-long CSC observance
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LINGAYEN - The month-long 106th anniversary of the Civil Service Commission on the theme “Katapatan ng Lingkod Bayan…. Pahalagahan” kicked off at the Capitol grounds here last Sept. 4.
Gov. Victor Agbayani enjoined all government employees to support the national celebration.
“As government servants, it is our responsibility to become part of the various development efforts not [...]
Urduja releases P67 million for livelihood projects
Posted on September 17, 2006 - Filed Under Business, News | Leave a Comment
LINGAYEN - Some 234 organizations with 8,945 members have already received P67 million worth of livelihood assistance from the provincial government.
Luz Muego, provincial population officer and in charge of the Provincial Livelihood Assistance Program and Gender Development Program, said these groups are now engaged in various income generating projects.
These include hog fattening, commodity trading, [...]
Lomibao assesses country's irrigation situation
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MALASIQUI - Recently retired Philippine National Police chief Arturo Lomibao apparently wasted no time in studying the state of irrigation in the country when his appointment as the new National Irrigation Administration (NIA) administrator was announced two weeks ago.
He began reciting data about irrigation to the local media even before he assumed his post [...]
DOH to expand Safe Water System project
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LINGAYEN - The Department of Health (DOH) regional office based in La Union appears to have scored an initial success with zero diarrhea case in three months with its Safe Water System (SWS) project implemented in one town and one municipality once affected with an outbreak of diarrhea diseases consistent with cholera.
Dr. Gloria Balboa, deputy [...]
