Contractor keeps mum on missing steel bars
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
THE mystery of the missing steel bars and trusses retrieved from the burned private market owned by the Bugnay Construction and Development Corporation, which disappeared last year, may never be solved by the city council.
This as contractor Robert Sison, through his counsel Atty. Albino Gonzales, has invoked his right to remain silent following an invitation [...]
3 Dagupan senior officials in hot water
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
FOR TOWING SERVICES MESS
THREE senior officials of the city government are now in hot water in connection with the towing services rendered to the city by JLD Motorworks and Towing Service of Sta. Maria, San Jacinto, Pangasinan even as the supposed contract signed by Mayor Benjamin Lim remains missing.
Surprisingly, it was Councilor Teofilo Guadiz III, [...]
New provincial police director vows firm anti-drug campaign
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
LINGAYEN–Newly installed Pangasinan Police Director Senior Superintendent Isagani Nerez, who took over the command Thursday from Senior Superintendent Alan Purisima, has vowed to make the campaign against illegal drugs more intense and rigid in the province.
Nerez also pledged to impose the law more strictly as he warned his men that he will apply the [...]
Velasco shifts to mayoralty race in Sta. Barbara
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
STA. BARBARA—Vowing to the clamor of local leaders and majority of the people to lead a principled politics of change and reform in his native town, retired Police Deputy Director General Reynaldo V. Velasco has formally announced his bid for mayor instead of his initial plan to run for Congress.
"While I initially planned to run [...]
Alaminos ready to launch 'Visit Alaminos Year 2007'
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
ALAMINOS CITY—This premier coastal city, home of the Hundred Islands, will be holding the biggest, grandest and most exciting festival in its history with the romantic Valentine's Day mass wedding as the kick-off event and the formal launch scheduled on March 12-19 in honor of its patron, St. Joseph.
Dubbed "Visit Hundred Islands Year 2007 - [...]
MJ'S PANGASINAN VISIT
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment
MJ'S PANGASINAN VISIT—Former Manila Congressman Mark Jimenez is applauded by officers and members of the 'Biskeg na Pangasinan' political party led by Undersecretary for Local Governance Antonio Villar Jr. as he raises a framed souvenir given by the group when he graced their general assembly meeting Thursday night at Inn Asia in Dagupan. [...]
THUMBS UP WITH JDV
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment
THUMBS UP WITH JDV—Children flash thumbs up sign with Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. when he visited barangay Tebag in Mangaldan on February 18 to inaugurate their new barangay road built by the Department of Public Works and Highways from his Priority Development Assistance Fund. — Punchphoto by CSR
MOST WANTED MAN ARRESTED
Posted on February 25, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment
MOST WANTED MAN ARRESTED—Police Regional Director Leopoldo Bataoil (right) presents Ronnie Cosme, alias "Eng", of San Carlos City, tagged as the most wanted person in the Ilocos region today with the price of P140,000 on his head for the slaying of Ronnie Liwanag, also of San Carlos City in 2002, after his arrest in San [...]
ANOTHER LAKAS BET
Posted on February 24, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment
ANOTHER LAKAS BET—Gov. Victor Agbayani (left), Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats provincial chairman, swears in Customs Deputy Commissioner Galant Soriano on Friday as new member of the ruling party in Pangasinan in preparation for the latter's plan to run for representative in the third district of Pangasinan. Witnessing the oath-taking are Soriano's brother, Commissioner Wilhelm Soriano [...]
Peaceful elections seen in Pangasinan
Posted on February 24, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
The provincial office of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has yet to receive a request from any of its election officers (EO) on the ground to have their territory declared as an "area of concern", said Lawyer Reddy Balarbar, provincial election supervisor.
In an interview with The PUNCH Tuesday, Balarbar said this signals likely peaceful elections [...]
