Truth at its Most Brilliant
POOR but deserving Dagupeños and Pangasinenses will have the chance to pursue one to three-year technical or vocational courses for free.
The Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Provincial Office is scheduling a qualifying examination for potential scholars under the Private Education Student Financial Assistance (PESFA) Scholarship Program for 2006-2007.
THE ‘Kalutan ed Dagupan’ the main event of the Bangus Festival is still the Guinness World Record holder for longest barbecue, Mayor Benjamin S. Lim declared.
In a press conference held last February 8 at the City Mueum Lim said the latest update on the official website of the Guinness World Records contains the 2003 record of Dagupan City. He added that the city’s record is the first to appear on the homepage of the website.
THE country’s taipans are leading a business offensive aimed at hitting the private sector’s “singko-singko” goal and propelling Philippine tourism to its golden age.
Their “5-5-5-5-5” target: To invest $5 billion to bring in 5 million tourists that would generate $5 billion in revenues and 5 million jobs in 5 years.
CHINESE Ambassador Li Jin Jan assured officials of the Clark Development Corp. (CDC) that the $503-million North Railway (Northrail) project will go full blast by the end of February.
CDC officials said Li recently briefed them, as well as officials of the Clark International Airport Corp. (CIAC) and Malacañang representatives, led by Presidential Adviser for North Luzon Renato Diaz, on developments in the railway project largely funded from a loan from the Export-Import Bank of China.
THE National Development Corporation (NDC) approved the allocation of additional P500 million for expansion of the half-priced medicines program of the Arroyo administration implemented thru the Botika ng Bayan.
Philippine International Trading Corporation (PITC) chairman and president Roberto Pagdanganan said the NDC board unanimously approved the allocation of fresh funds to augment the present financial capabilities of the on-going half-priced medicines program of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
By Behn Fer. Hortaleza, Jr.
PIA-Pangasinan News Service
CITY Mayor Benjamin S. Lim might still get his wish for the on-going Lucao Diversion Road to cut through or exit at or near the Nel-Ars Subbdivision in the area, according to a top official of the Department of Public Works and Highways in Region 1.
The “catch” though is, the present road construction being undertaken by DPWH contractors farther out of the Nel Ars property will have to continue as it is already almost complete — with more than 90 % of affected real properties along the route already paid, according to DPWH Regional Director Fidel Ginez.
THE Congressional Spouses Foundation, Inc. has helped rehabilitate some 10,000 battered and abused women and children from all over the country for the past 10 years.
This was reported by Mrs. Gina de Venecia, wife of Speaker Jose de Venecia and president of the CSFI, an organization of spouses of members of the House of Representatives.
SAYAN INDIO
Mario F. Karateka
ANTOEY, di amemet lamet iray Mehikanos ed impakatalo na sakey lamet a kabaleyan da, si boksingeron Aguirre, ed lima nen ikikinon tayon Brian Villoria, tubod Ilokos balet manaayam lad Haway. Onaan lan ingorangor nen Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao tayo si Mehikanon Erik Morales a tatawagen dan “El Terible’ dimad Las Vegas met.
Aliwan singa samay baleg ya preparasyon, impantalaran tan dasal ya inter ed si Pacquiao so agawad sayan laban nen Viloria. No sukaten bilang, singa kapaldua labat na kabaleg na atensiyon na Pilipino so niiter ed Viloria, komparad samay impibuntalan nen Pacquiao.
NO stranger to natural disasters ourselves, having weathered a killer earthquake in July 1990, several devastating killer typhoons that brought giant floods through the decades, deadly onslaught of viral diseases like meningococcemia, acute gastro-enteritis, dengue fever, cholera and at one point, the deadly SARS here in our doorsteps – not to mention having to live with our own set of elected “enriching” officials – the southern Leyte mudslide tragedy still jolts us with its sheer impact on human spirit.
A whole mountainside loosening and collapsing on an unwary barangay population of some 1,900 is an event of cataclysmic proportion that shows graphically how fragile life is. And how very puny our own relief and rescue capabilities can be in the face of such gigantic trials. Yet, when you come right down to it, how else but puny would Man’s response capability be to anything the Supreme Creator wills and lets pass for a reason, His own reason.
AFTER ALL
Behn Fer. Hortaleza, Jr.
THERE’S something in that seemingly minor news item about Dagupan City’s recently being awarded as one of the Most Competitive Cities in the Philippines for ‘small cities’ category.
The award was conferred on top performing urban centers by the AIM Policy Center in ceremonies at the Intercontinental Hotel in Makati with Vice Mayor Alvin Fernandez and several city aldermen receiving it on Mayor BSL’s behalf
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