FEELINGS
Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Leave a Comment
Punch on Wounds
By Emmanuelle
SCENE I: Can you see this scene?
Let us call this third person Em, she who speaks for those with wounds that do not heal:
This whole week she steps and hums to the thud and the thump of a drum. The calls, the mails, the texts had come. From near and far, [...]
Dagupan city hall chorale wows audience
Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
Symphonic voices filled the entire City Plaza when the Dagupan City Chorale, composed of city government employees, staged its maiden performance last Monday during the regular flag raising ceremony.
Apart from singing the national and Dagupan anthems, the group also performed some folk songs.
The chorale is composed of six sopranos, four altos, three tenors and [...]
KFR gang strikes anew
Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
FIL-CHINESE COMMUNITY ALARMED
2 girls kidnapped, released after 2 days
WHEN the police was not looking, supposed members of a Kidnap-for -Ransom (KFR) gang struck in Dagupan, victimizing two daughters of a Fil-Chinese businessman in another town.
The incident reportedly happened in the afternoon of November 15 somewhere in Bonuan Binloc at about 4:00 p.m. when the girls [...]
City can't reduce stall rental fee
Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
IT'S AGAINST THE LAW
THE request of stallholders at the Malimgas Public Market for a reduction in rental fee could not be granted by the new city administration as this is prohibited under the law.
Councilor Jesus Canto, chairman of the market committee, dashed the hope of vendors as he cited the Local Government Code provision [...]
Towns losing millions in quarry fees
Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
MANAOAG–The provincial and municipal governments as well as barangays have been losing millions in potential income from quarry operations around the province.
Local government officials recently called the attention of the provincial government and Gov. Amado Espino Jr. has vowed to institute the reforms even as corrective measures have already been initiated.
APSCU, PACU ink advocacy alliance
Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
AN advocacy alliance of higher education institutions (HEIs) has been signed between the Association of Private Schools Colleges and Universities (APSCU) and the Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU).
The signing took place during the APSCU biennial convention last November 15 and 16 at the Leisure Coast Resort in Dagupan City between Dr. MacArthur Samson, [...]
Soon, ferry services across cities to promote tourism
Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
DAGUPAN-ALAMINOS-SAN FERNANDO
THE cities of Dagupan, Alaminos and San Fernando are collaborating to set up a novel ferry system that will provide point-to-point service between and among them.
Dagupan City Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. announced that the ferry service was initiated by Mayor Hernani Braganza in order to hasten tourism and business activities in the provinces of [...]
Urdaneta will ink sister ties with Spanish city
Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
URDANETA CITY–Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. will leave for Spain on December 1 to sign a sisterhood agreement between Urdaneta City and Ordizia City in Spain on December 5 coinciding with the 500th birthday anniversary of Ordizia's foremost son, Fr. Andres Urdaneta, after whom the former Spanish pueblo of Urdaneta was named.
Ordizia is a city [...]
Pangasinan leads in real estate development
Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
SAN FERNANDO CITY–It's boom time for the real estate industry in Region 1, particularly in Pangasinan.
The real estate industry in the Ilocos Region posted an average annual growth of 14% for the past seven years, more than double the 5.5% rate during the preceding period, based on a report by the Housing and Land [...]
Late publisher's body exhumed and desecrated
Posted on November 25, 2007 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Leave a Comment
MANGALDAN–The body of the late Francisco Aquino, a former Catholic priest and publisher of Pangasinan Journal, was desecrated by still unidentified suspects for still unknown reasons.
Francisco Naife, contractor of the victim's tomb, discovered the desecration around 6:00 a.m. Monday when he was about to place the tombstone.
