Baraan issued waivers to claimants in Bonuan

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DAGUPAN BEACHLAND SCAM

Based on waivers issued to claimants of foreshore land in Bonuan Binloc, officials of the past city administration may have had a hand or worse abetted squatting in the site.
Copies of a waiver from the city hall indicated that the waiver was used ostensibly to enable claimants to secure power connection to the [...]

Espino focuses on health, education and agriculture

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2008 WORK PROGRAM

LINGAYEN — Governor Amado Espino Jr. spelled out wide-ranging programs in the province planned for this year in keeping with his campaign promise and plan to boost Pangasinan's economic and social development.
His 35-minute State of the Province Address at the provincial capitol last January 28 centered on his plans to improve healthcare [...]

'Oplan Bakal' fails to stop gunmen, 3 shot dead

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LINGAYEN–It was "win some, lose some" for the Espino administration and the provincial police.
Local police arrested two persons, one of them a suspect in a shooting incident late last year, in Sual town on January 28 following an order from Governor Amado Espino Jr. for a vigorous campaign against loose firearms.
Meanwhile, three people died in [...]

Mayor Fernandez lists 2008 priority infra projects

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THE Dagupan City government will have its plate full beginning this year implementing various infrastructure projects.
On top of the list is the construction of a new city hall, and it will not be at the old MC Adore Hotel acquired by the city from the Privatization Monitoring Office (PMO).
Instead, the new city hall will [...]

Sto. Tomas ready for Guinness world record

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STO. TOMAS-There's just another week left to complete the final preparations for the town's bid to make it to the Guinness Book of World Records.
Next Sunday, February 10, the town's government and residents will attempt to make it to the Guinness' pages with their planned 4,938-meter long corn barbecue grill.
Coinciding with the town's centennial [...]

Top drug traffickers nabbed in Dagupan

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Finally, the two suspected most notorious drug pushers in Dagupan City, a husband and wife team, were arrested Wednesday by agents of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) Region 1.
Datu Michael Kali Bagul, 49, president of the Dagupan Muslim Association and his wife, Anna Liza Bagul, 40, were arrested in a buy-bust entrapment [...]

Northern Luzon congressmen back JdV

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House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. continues to enjoy solid support out here in the north.
His colleagues in the House of Representatives, belonging to a group known as the Northern Luzon Alliance, have signed a manifesto opposing recent moves to oust De Venecia from his long-held seat at the helm of the [...]

Resuello murder 'half solved', says Bataoil

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LINGAYEN-Get "Cabesa".
This was the renewed order of Police Regional Director Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil to the police in Pangasinan, particularly the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, as he admitted that the slaying of Mayor Julian Resuello of San Carlos City is only "half-solved".
"Cabesa" is the alias of Cesar de Guzman, the other [...]

City to host ICT congress

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More than 5,000 delegates are expected attend the two-day 2008 Regional Information and Communications Technology Congress on February 26-27 at the People's Astrodome in Dagupan.
Organized by Medialink Events Management, internationally-recognized computer, broadband and ICT experts have been invited to participate in the event.

Team Energy gives P5.2M for PSU research station

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LINGAYEN–Team Energy, the operator of the Sual coal-fired power plant, is donating P5.2 million for the rehabilitation of the Pangasinan State University's (PSU) research station in Sual town to enable it to identify which fish habitat is best along the Lingayen Gulf area.
Dr. Victoriano Estira, PSU president, said he is set to sign a memorandum [...]

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