Five pupils found positive for A(H1N1)
Posted on July 25, 2010 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
HEALTH ALERT SOUNDED FIVE students from an elementary school in Dagupan City had been confirmed on July 19 to be positive of the deadly A(H1N1) virus. But City Health Officer Leonardo Carbonell immediately assured that there is no cause for alarm as the infected students had already been isolated, placed under observation and are now recovering.
Calmay reclamation grounds to a halt
Posted on July 25, 2010 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
THE illegal reclamation of a portion of the Calmay River has again been stopped by the operator after the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) recently confirmed to the city council that the Cease and Desist Order (CDO) against it is still valid. At the same time, the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) passed a resolution last week calling [...]
Massive river clean-up kicks off
Posted on July 25, 2010 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
LINGAYEN–The river that loops through Dagupan, Binmaley and Lingayen is finally getting its long overdue clean up. The drive was formally launched in front of the provincial capitol through the signing of a memorandum of agreement among Governor Amado Espino Jr., who provided the muscle for the initiative, Lingayen Mayor Ernesto Castaneda, Binmaley Mayor Lorenzo [...]
Fishpen ordinance lacks teeth–Molina
Posted on July 25, 2010 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
DAGUPAN City’s ordinance for fishpen operations needs more teeth. City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina made this point when was invited by the city council on July 19 to shed light on the fishpen issue.
Religious ministers draft plan to help end killings in Tayug
Posted on July 25, 2010 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
TAYUG–Alarmed by the unusual rise of unsolved killing here since after the May 10 elections, members of the Tayug Ministers’ Association (TMA) will meet this week to plot a common action plan that could help address the problem. Spearheaded by Rev. Carlos B. Ebreo, TMA president and minister of the town’s Christian Church, 15 religious ministers here will sit down [...]
PERSONAL HYGIENE VERSUS A(H1N1)
Posted on July 24, 2010 - Filed Under Headlines, News, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment
PERSONAL HYGIENE VERSUS A(H1N1)–Pupils of the West Central Elementary Schol assemble at their school quadrangle to participate in an instant personal hygiene seminar called by Councilor Jesus Canto, chairman on Health of the city council, soon after it was learned that five students in another elementary school turned positive for the A (H1N1) virus last [...]
NOT ANOTHER FISHPEN
Posted on July 24, 2010 - Filed Under Headlines, News, Photo Gallery | Leave a Comment
NOT ANOTHER FISHPEN—Even as the new Dagupan city administration vowed to uproot illegal fishpens that clutter the city's rivers, a new fishpen supposedly owned by former Barangay Chairman Bebot de la Cruz of Calmay measuring 600 square meters has sprouted almost overnight at the Calmay River overlooking the Jose R. De Venecia Expressway Extension. City Agriculture [...]
EMB confirms CDO vs. firm still valid
Posted on July 18, 2010 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
888 DAGUPAN PROPERTIES CHECKED THE Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) is again poised to enforce its cease and desist order (CDO) that it issued against a company after it was reported that the latter has again resumed reclamation activities at a portion of the Calmay River along the Jose R. De Venecia Expressway Extension. The CDO [...]
Lim asks DENR to stop reclamation
Posted on July 18, 2010 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
CITY MAYOR Benjamin Lim called on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) last week to put a stop to the unauthorized reclamation and backfilling activities on a portion of the Calmay River along the Jose de Venecia expressway. Lim said his administration will not tolerate any move that makes a mockery of his [...]
Dagupan garbage problem is ‘critical’
Posted on July 18, 2010 - Filed Under Headlines, News | Leave a Comment
DAGUPAN City’s garbage problem is now in “critical condition”. Mayor Benjamin Lim has been informed by the Waste Management Division that the open dumpsite at the Tondaligan beach along the Bonuan shorelines is now facing even more serious management problems after the bulldozer recently bought by the city government for P7.8 million has bogged down.
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