Business Log
Posted on January 7, 2007 - Filed Under Business Log, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Investments in Pangasinan up by 96.15%
By Eva C. Visperas
The New Year started with a good report as far as investment in Pangasinan is concerned.
I talked to Daria Mingaracal, provincial caretaker of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in the province. Her title sounds like she's a caregiver (and she laughs at it whenever [...]
Harvest Time
Posted on January 7, 2007 - Filed Under Harvest Time, Opinion | Leave a Comment
First biotech rice variety in RP released
By Sosimo Ma. Pablico
The first biotech rice variety in the Philippines, released only recently by the National Seed Industry Council [NSIC] for commercial production, is now being produced in a large scale.
Called NSIC Rc142 or more popularly as Tubigan 7, the new rice variety is the country's first [...]
Viewpoints
Posted on January 7, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Viewpoints | Leave a Comment
Contradictions Par Excellence
By +Oscar V. Cruz D. D.
The attempt to reverse the Anti-death penalty law by some members of the lower house and the recent death sentence imposed on a known dictator, brings to mind the ridiculous as well as gross contradictions of death [...]
Sports Eye
Posted on January 7, 2007 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Leave a Comment
Basketball fiasco
By Jesus A. Garcia Jr.
I WAS elated, proud and very grateful to two sports minded persons in my village (Buenlag, Mangaldan) who organized an inter-purok basketball tournament recently that received a big plaudit from my village mates, including this writer. The tandem, a certain Mr. Bengson and Mr. Dabu, joined hands to accommodate the [...]
Feelings
Posted on January 7, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Deja vu
I. Known you before!
By Emmanuelle
From birth to the eighth year of their young lives, they weren't aware the other even existed. They grew and lived in towns or provinces or even oceans apart; they had distinctly different kinds of world; they grew up with the most extreme opposites of beliefs, values, attitudes, etcetera.
From pre-school [...]
3 towns, 1 city eyed as poll 'hot spots'
Posted on January 7, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
ELECTION PERIOD KICKS OFF JAN. 14
THREE towns and one city in Pangasinan have been tagged by the Provincial Elections Office this early as possible hot spots in the May national and local elections with the possibility that one of those towns could be placed under Commission on Elections (Comelec) control.
Provincial Elections Officer Reddy Balarbar [...]
VM Alvin still insists on project re-bidding
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VICE Mayor Alvin Fernandez still insists that a re-bidding be conducted on the Magsaysay Park project to clear all questions surrounding the earlier bidding and erase all doubts over the legality and qualification of the winning bidder.
He made the call anew in his website posted on Friday even if the resolution giving authority to Mayor [...]
Gov't doc faces new charge
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A government employee who invoked a bureaucratic administrative policy before doing his job has found himself charged instead with insubordination.
Dr. Benjamin Marcial Bautista, a rural health physician and a medico-legal has been slapped with an administrative case of insubordination after he refused to conduct an autopsy on the three hotel employees murdered on Christmas [...]
Agbayani assures help to fishers
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LINGAYEN–Help is finally on the way.
Governor Victor Agbayani has assured help to the families of fishermen whose motorboats were capsized by huge waves off the high seas in Scarborough Shoal at the South China Sea on December 16, 2006.
Agbayani said the Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) has been coordinating with the municipal [...]
157 hurt in New Year's revelry
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AT least 157 people in various parts of the province were injured from firecrackers at the height of the celebration on New Year’s Eve, a report of the Department of Health (DOH) Region 1 based in La Union said.
Based on the report, Dagupan City registered the most number of fireworks-related cases at 42; followed by [...]
