THRILLA IN MAPANDAN
Posted on November 26, 2006 - Filed Under News, People & Events, Photo Gallery, Sports | Leave a Comment
THRILLA IN MAPANDAN - Two members of the Mapandan Gay Association, Conrado Ferrer, aka Maui Pakyaw (left) and Romualdo Velasquez, aka Erika Morales, give their all to look ‘tough’ as they give media a preview of their expected ‘wild rumble’ in three scheduled matches during Mapandan’s Sports Olympics sponsored by the municipal government [...]
Questions about Tinda’y Labi
Posted on November 26, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum | Leave a Comment
Jose Ceralde
26 Nov 2006
At first glance from a thousand miles away, your article on “Tinday Labi” looks promising to raise money for the much talked about city’s financial state. But reading this article raises a lot more question for readers like me, what may be clear to those intimately involved in the enterprise who [...]
Editorial
Posted on November 26, 2006 - Filed Under Editorial, Editorial Cartoon, News | Leave a Comment
Who owns Tondaligan Park?
The PUNCH has reported in the past indications of illegal occupancy and sale of parcels of land inside the Tondaligan Park in Dagupan City to some affluent families and businessmen. The same issue has been discussed by columnist Gonzalo Duque in his columns and his latest drew an unusual emotional outburst [...]
Lease of city property ok’d sans SP authority
Posted on November 26, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
DADS CAUGHT FLATFOOTED
While the Dagupan City Sanggunian slept, the city administrator conducted a bidding four months ago without any authorization from it and went on to award a 25-year lease contract for a public property fronting the city hall to a local developer.
But Councilor Alex de Venecia, chairman of the city council’s committee [...]
Agbayani says ‘No to STL’
Posted on November 26, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
LINGAYEN - While the provincial board has started to discuss the operation of Small Town Lottery (STL) in Pangasinan, Governor Victor Agbayani has stressed their “No to STL in Pangasinan” stand.
Agbayani said, “We have a consistent stand that we would like to support the gains of Archbishop Oscar Cruz.”
Cruz, archbishop of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese, [...]
FINALLY, DOMALANDAN BRIDGE IS READY
Posted on November 26, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment
FINALLY, DOMALANDAN BRIDGE IS READY— Members of a construction crew work feverishly on the finishing touches for the 600-meter, P700-million Domalandan bridge in Lingayen set to be inaugurated by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on January 6, coinciding with the Lingayen town fiesta.
VM Fernandez is fuming mad at PUNCH columnist
Posted on November 26, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
VICE Mayor Alvin Fernandez has vehemently denied the alleged plan of the city government to turn over the administration of the Tondaligan Park to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez reads aloud
his letter to The Punch before newsmen.
“That’s an absolute lie! I never told him that, he is a liar!,” [...]
Tinda’y Labi now legal
Posted on November 26, 2006 - Filed Under Business, Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
THE holding of the ‘Tinda’y Labi’ along A.B. Fernandez Avenue during the weekends of November was finally given a legal status through an ordinance passed on Monday by the city council, after three outings.
When Tinda’y Labi, sponsored by private organizations, was launched on November 10, it operated under a temporary permit issued by then Acting [...]
Owner denies his featured billboard is illegal
Posted on November 26, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
THE owner of the outdoor billboard, a photo of which was published in the November 19 issue of The PUNCH, has denied that his structure is illegal and does not have a permit from the City Engineer’s Office.
Ramil Gutierrez, manager of Sight and Sight Outdoor, which maintains six billboards in Dagupan City and one in [...]
GMA’s help sought in Sual plant row
Posted on November 26, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
LINGAYEN - Governor Victor Agbayani has sought President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s intervention on the brewing controversy at the 1,200 megawatt Sual coal-fired power plant in Sual town where about 300 employees fear loss of employment in case the company is sold within the next few months.
Agbayani said the President’s “appropriate intervention” is crucial “to preserve industrial [...]
