Clam thieves arrested in 100 Islands
Posted on June 3, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
ALAMINOS CITY–Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures.
So goes one popular saying among environment-conscious travelers.
And four people, three of whom are tourists and one a resident, learned this lesson the hard way. They were arrested separately by the city's police and officials of the Public Order and Safety Office (POSO)- -Bantay Dagat for [...]
One dead in suspected 'Terminal War'
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GUNS-for-hire struck again early Thursday, killing a businessman and a passenger-van operator inside the premises of a motor repair shop on Jose R. de Venecia Highway in Lucao, Dagupan City.
Police investigators are looking into a business rivalry as the possible motive for the killing. Apparently, keen rivalry and power struggle over the control of the [...]
City holds evacuation rescue drill
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THE first flood response and evacuation drill conducted last Thursday by the City Disaster Coordinating Council (CDCC) headed by outgoing Mayor Benjamin Lim was hailed a success.
Held as part of the city's implementation of Project PROMISE (Program for Hydro-Meteorological Disaster Mitigation in Secondary Cities in Asia), the exercise took off simultaneously from different sites - [...]
Usec. Villar named new RP anti-smuggling czar
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FORMER STO. Tomas Mayor Antonio Villar Jr. has been appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as the country’s new anti-smuggling czar.
Villar, currently undersecretary for Local Governance, was named to head the newly-formed Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG) under the Office of the President.
His appointment as Presidential Assistant For Anti-Smuggling with the rank of undersecretary took effect May [...]
Police, Moro communities sign pact to fight crime
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LINGAYEN–Various Muslim communities across Pangasinan, the provincial police and local government leaders have signed an agreement promising to fight lawlessness in their respective towns or cities.
Senior Superintendent Isagani Nerez, provincial police director, lauded the covenant signed Tuesday at the police provincial headquarters here, saying “This will lead to a better understanding among our Muslim brothers [...]
DPWH fields men to clean drainage
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TOO late but it is better than never.
This was the general sentiment over a recent order of Department of Public Works and Highways Regional Director Fidel Ginez to his men in the field to undertake an all-out cleaning of drainage canals in preparation for the rainy season which has already commenced.
In a talk to [...]
Another overpass rising in Dagupan
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ANOTHER pedestrian overpass is now being constructed in Dagupan City. This time on Arellano Street, in front of Colegio de Dagupan and Nepo Mall.
Department of Public Works and Highways Regional Director Fidel Ginez said work for the P4.5 million overpass has finally started following the delay brought about by the recent election.
Garci's brother-in law wins as councilor
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BALUNGAO–A winning councilor's affiliation with the controversial Virgilio Garcillano Jr., the man at the center of the "Hello Garci" election-rigging scandal, might have actually helped in his candidacy in this remote town in the eastern side of the province.
Crisanto Luna, who lost in two previous elections, finally succeeded in getting himself elected in the last [...]
Drive vs. ambulant vendors to continue
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THERE will be no let-up in the campaign by the city government against ambulant vendors for the next 30 days!
Thus said Butch Gutierrez, the outgoing head of the Anti-Hawking Task Force under the office of outgoing Mayor Benjamin Lim, unfazed by reports that vendors will no longer comply with his orders.
Gutierrez reiterated he [...]
DCNHS problems still manageable
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THE operations of the Dagupan City National High School continue to be saddled with resource problems but the principal believes that things are still manageable and the school is ready for the opening of classes on Monday.
Dr. Teodora Nabor said that despite perennial problems like lack of school desks, textbooks and facilities, DCNHS is [...]
