THE Duque family in Dagupan, thru its eldest son, has come out in full support of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo saying Mrs. Arroyo is the best president the country ever produced.

Dr. Salvador Duque, chancellor of the Dagupan-based Lyceum Northwestern University said what five past presidents of the country had done in 45 years, Mrs. Arroyo had accomplished in just three years.

The eldest in the Duque family of Pangasinan, that includes Health Secretary Francisco Duque II, said five past presidents of the country built 82 kilometers of roads in a span of 45 years, whereas President Arroyo made the 86-kilometer Subic Clark Expressway in a span of only three years.
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CITY Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. is standing firm on his order seeking cancellation of all tax declarations over parcels of land near the beach in Bonuan Binloc here.

He said he is not changing his position a bit that the land covered by those tax declarations being claimed by private individuals, most of them rich, is beyond the commerce of man.

“I don’t even know the origin how these individuals were able to
secure lands that they are now occupying,” the mayor said.
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THE Dagupan Bangus Festival under the new city administration this year will strive to outshine the thrill of the past festival editions.

The festival executive committee headed by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez released this year’s schedule of activities from April 16 to May 4.

The lady vice mayor and co-chair, Councilor Alfie Fernandez, have just returned from promoting the Dagupan Bangus Festival among overseas Dagupeños in the United States some weeks ago.
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WITH only a few more minor kinks to be ironed out, the 2008 Dagupan Bangus Festival slated on April 16 to May 4 is now all set.

Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chair of this year’s festival, said it is now all systems go although it is still more than two weeks before the big event.

As of March 25, said Fernandez, the executive committee has already finalized all the events, virtually allowing no more room for last-minute changes or insertion of another exciting event.
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ALAMINOS CITY—The Alaminos City government is set to undertake reclamation projects at Lucap Bay and its foreshore areas here.

This was provided for in a Memorandum of Agreement signed recently by Mayor Hernani A. Braganza in behalf of the city government and the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) headed by its General Manager and Chief Executive Order Andrea D. Domingo.

The signing was held at the new Welcome House and Tourist Information Center in Lucap Wharf.
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THE first of its kind Chinatown in Dagupan City proposed by the local Filipino-Chinese community will soon be a reality.

Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. said he is open to the proposal but he and members of the Filipino-Chinese Chamber of Commerce will still have to sit down together to formally discuss the project.

Proposed to be converted as little Chinatown of Dagupan City is Rizal Street which is already the location of many establishments owned by Filipino-Chinese, which include two Chinese schools and a Chinese chapel. Read the rest of this entry »

LINGAYEN—Local government units in Pangasinan have been alerted over the rather high incidence of rabies cases in the province.

Department of Agriculture Regional Field Director Cipriano Santiago said LGUs must do something because of the high incidence of rabies in Pangasinan.

The DA, he said, in cooperation with the LGUs, is helping vaccinate dogs to make them safe from rabies.
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COMING out to make a clean breast of the issue, Land Bank of the Philippines admitted last week it is offering a credit line of P950 million to the Pangasinan provincial government, in the normal course of their banking services activity

Victoria Sembrano, department manager of Land Bank, told the provincial government that the Omnibus Term-Loan Facility (PBLF) is being offered in recognition of the capacity of the province to pay.

“It will allow something that is available to you at any point in time or within a given period of time,” she explained in a talk before the Provincial Board on Monday. Read the rest of this entry »

LINGAYEN—The Department of Agriculture has made available five tractors to as many farmer cooperatives in as many towns of Pangasinan to help farmers in their food production ventures.
Regional Agriculture Director Cipriano Santiago said beneficiaries of one tractor each are Sta. Barbara, Bayambang, Rosales, Villasis and San Carlos City.

These will be used by members of the cooperatives to till their farms as most of them are still renting tractors from as far as Nueva Ecija.
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THE city government here has announced, there was zero or no drowning incident in Dagupan’s Blue Beach during the Holy Week.
Alvin Fernandez, City Administrator, attributed the zero drowning to the all-out efforts of various agencies of the city government, including the volunteerism of the city government.

Fernandez said lifeguards rescued four people when they almost got drowned while swimming in the beach.

As in previous Holy Weeks, the Dagupan beach was swarmed by thousands of people, many of them visitors, who took a dip in the cool invigorating water of Lingayen Gulf in order to beat the intense summer’s heat.
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