Construction at Magsaysay Park illegal sans permit
Posted on May 27, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
Dads staying away from possible suit
THE city engineer of Dagupan City has laid it out plain and simple: It is illegal. But the public wonders why the construction continues unhampered.
The construction work at the former Magsaysay Park for a tourism park complex has been going on for about 60 days now without the [...]
A 'sweet victory' for Espino
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LINGAYEN–Pangasinan's new governor-elect Amado Espino Jr. considers his victory, which ended the 27-year rule of the Agbayani family, as "very sweet".
“This is a very sweet victory for me. Together, we did what many thought was an impossible mission,” Espino told The PUNCH.
He expressed elation that the electorate supported his battlecry to have a real [...]
De Venecia assured of speakership again
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Speaker Jose de Venecia, Jr., who was reelected as congressman for the Fourth District, is confident that the speakership of the House of Representatives is again in the bag for him.
In a phone interview on Thursday, De Venecia, who was in Manila, said he has received assurance from all political parties that coalesced with the [...]
Mayor Resuello laid to rest
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SAN CARLOS CITY—Thousands of people joined a two-kilometer long caravan that brought Mayor Julian Resuello to his final resting place on May 20 at his family-owned Holy Garden Memorial Park in barangay Agdao here.
The interment of the 54-year old Resuello patriarch was held after a holy mass at the St. Dominic Church, exactly three weeks [...]
Arenas proclaimed Third District winner
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PROVINCE'S FIRST CONGRESSWOMAN
LINGAYEN–It was a close contest but the more aggressive and determined candidate eventually emerged victorious.
And that was Rachel Arenas, whose campaign in the third district of the province made her presence more felt and her more visible than all her three male opponents.
Arenas, who has become the first woman member of Congress from [...]
ARENAS PROCLAIMED
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ARENAS PROCLAIMED–Harvard-educated Rachel Arenas (center) is proclaimed by Provincial Elections Supervisor Reddy Balarbar and Schools Division Superintendent Armando Aquino while Provincial Prosecutor Segundino Ferrer smiles in approval. Also in photo is Rachel's mother Rosemary 'Baby Arenas. (Punchphoto by CSR)
The province's old and new officials
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PANGASINAN's new 17 mayors will formally assume their posts on July 1 while 31 re-elected mayors are expected to continue what they started.
In the First District, the new mayors are: Arthur Cabantac (Agno town), Marcelo Navarro Jr. (Bani), Noel Nacar (Dasol) and Carlitos Reyes (Mabini). Re-elected mayors are: Mayors Hernani Braganza (Alaminos City), Nestor [...]
Cruz nixes priests holding public office
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PRIESTS should not turn into politicians.
This is the view of Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz, a former president of the influential Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, when asked to comment on the election of Fr. Ed Panlilio as governor of Pampanga.
Panlilio, running as an independent bet, trounced veteran politicians Lilia Pineda of Kabalikat ng [...]
Priest tells Resuello: Be the 'Spiderman'
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SAN CARLOS CITY—A priest from the St. Dominic Church here refers to the new mayor of San Carlos City as “Spiderman” a.k.a. Peter Parker, who, he said, inherited his web from his dead father.
Fr. Jaime Catungal said in his homily during a Holy Mass for the slain Mayor Julian Resuello that the dead Mayor [...]
Ex-VM deplores black propaganda tagging him mastermind
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SAN CARLOS CITY–The campaign and the elections are over but the black propaganda lingers.
A defeated vice mayoralty candidate here has deplored the circulation of duplicated copies of a propaganda material that was spread before the elections purportedly quoting him as saying that the ones who masterminded the slaying of Mayor Julian Resuello were Governor Victor [...]
