Baraan rejects vice mayor's proposal for re-bid
Posted on December 11, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
A major between Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim and Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez looms ahead over the decision of the city hall to award a build-operate-transfer (BOT) project to a private developer without the required prior council resolutions supporting it.
Of late, City Administrator Rafael Baraan already [...]
Looking back…
Posted on December 11, 2006 - Filed Under Looking back... | Leave a Comment
Taken from The SUNDAY PUNCH archive of Dec. 16, 1962
HERO'S BURIAL
Posted on December 11, 2006 - Filed Under Headlines, News, People & Events, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment
HERO'S BURIAL—An honor guard from the United States Army Special Forces carries the flag-draped body of U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Richwell Doria of Dagupan City who died in Kirkurk, Iraq last November 7, to a funeral hearse for his burial. Richwell's parents, Fred and Rose, view the burial rites after receiving the American flag from [...]
Metrostate Reality, not a qualified bidder
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PROPOSED MAGSAYSAY TOURISM PARK
Can a company with only P100,000 paid-up capital and a subscribed capital of P400,000 be capable of constructing an P84 million project on a build-operate-transfer scheme? Worse, can it win the contract when it was never pre-qualified to participate in the bidding?
These questions cropped up after a copy of the Metrostate [...]
R1MC is now RP's 3rd best
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THREE cheers to the Region I Medical Center in Dagupan City!
It was recently adjudged by the Department of Health as among the country’s top five government hospitals.
An unassuming Dr. Jesus Canto, R1MC chief, said the accolade makes all the hospital's personnel “proud and stand 10 feet tall".
Canto said R1MC has been ranked [...]
Gen. Velasco's mother joins creator at 86
Posted on December 11, 2006 - Filed Under In memory of..., Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
THE mother of retired Police Deputy Director General Reynaldo V. Velasco passed away Friday, following a cardiac arrest at a local hospital in San Carlos City, Pangasinan.
Anacleta Vicente Velasco, born on July 13, 1920, was 86 and is survived by eight of her nine children: General Rey Velasco, Josephine Serrano, Ernesto Velasco, Editha Arenos, Virgilio, [...]
Referral is not a done deal
Posted on December 11, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum | Leave a Comment
Farah Decano
10 Dec 2006
Dear Mr. Garcia,
Due to a busy schedule and for health reasons, it is only now that I am able to browse the net and read your column. I have moved for the referral of the Bugnay issue to the committee of laws and ordinances in order to provide the sanggunian [...]
