Sports Eye
Posted on November 29, 2009 - Filed Under Opinion, Sports Eye | Comments Off
Ebdane’s race, my biggest yet By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. EVEN during my prime years in bicycle racing, I already started to organize and direct road races. My first was on March 14, 1974 during the fiesta of my hometown Mangaldan. I always remember monumental events, especially the firsts, in my life. That race was [...]
Roots
Posted on November 29, 2009 - Filed Under Opinion, Roots | Comments Off
No animal, but the devil By Marifi Jara QUELIMANE, Mozambique—On an early morning safari at the South Luangwa National Park in Zambia last year, we came across parts of the remains of a buffalo in a bush area. It was fresh from the kill of a lion pack the night before. A bigger part of [...]
Feelings
Posted on November 29, 2009 - Filed Under Feelings, Opinion | Comments Off
To have gone and done all that . . . By Emmanuelle THEIR first two meetings showed how far and distant Em had held off the world at bay. Since those fateful days, never; forever hence on, not. Em's government office is spacious and sunny, enclosed in four walls of glass. Ceiling is brick-red, and [...]
Lawyers sue NPC, SRPC
Posted on November 29, 2009 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Comments Off
SAN ROQUE DAM DECOMMISSIONING SOUGHT Justice Regino leads complainants A GROUP of lawyers in Pangasinan has taken the lead in filing a class suit against the National Power Corporation (NPC) and the San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC), the operators of the San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam in San Manuel town, in relation to the flooding in [...]
Rep. Cojuangco: Sue them
Posted on November 29, 2009 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Comments Off
SAN MANUEL–The move to make San Roque Dam and National Power Corporation (NPC) and its officers accountable for the massive flooding in the province further gains momentum.
SRPC: San Roque Dam decommissioning costly
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SAN MANUEL–Easier said than done. Tommy Valdez, vice president for corporate social responsibility of the San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC), said this in response to the clamor for the decommissioning of the San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam Project by the government.
Re-regulatory pond breaks ground
Posted on November 29, 2009 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Comments Off
SRMP'S IRRIGATION COMPONENT IN 2013 SAN MANUEL–After the flood in October that completely swamped many farms in the province, local farmers can begin to look more positively at the San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam Project with the expected completion of the construction of the re-regulating pond component for irrigation in four years.
Kapitans, cop chiefs get radios, phones
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LINGAYEN–New hand-held radios and wireless telephones were distributed to Pangasinan's 1,333 barangay kapitans and the police chiefs of the 44 towns and three cities on Tuesday by the provincial government.
Dagupan mulls ‘dam-break’ scenario plan
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BETTER safe than sorry. This is the stance of members of the Dagupan city council and agreed to incorporate a 'dam-break' scenario in the city's emergency evacuation plan despite assurances from San Roque Dam officials that a dam-break will be a "very, very remote possibility".
SP rallies behind Villar anew
Posted on November 29, 2009 - Filed Under Inside News, News | Comments Off
LINGAYEN–Members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) have again rallied behind their kabalayen, Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG) head Undersecretary Antonio Villar Jr. amid the string of cases filed against him and his agency.
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