LINGAYEN – A total of 28 persons in Pangasinan perished in the worst typhoon disaster ever to hit the province in years, according to an update from the Provincial Disaster Coordinating Council (PDCC) on killer typhoon Cosme released late today, Tuesday.
The provincial figure on fatalities already included four dead from Dagupan City.
Damage to agriculture so far has reached P1,842,578,140 with fruit-bearing trees suffering the brunt of the typhoon’s gale-force winds, followed by palay and corn. Fisheries also took a massive beating where damage was placed at P854,620,000. Read the rest of this entry »
JUST when everyone – well, almost everyone – was thinking and fearing earthquakes especially following the successive episodes of temblors worldwide particularly the most destructive one in China, what should come a-visiting us puny mortals in Pangasinan is a typhoon like no other in recorded history that reduced properties to shambles and people to prayers on bended knees at the height of its fury in central and western Pangasinan on Saturday early evening.
Not that anyone would prefer a typhoon over an earthquake in these calamitous times but as most weather disturbances would go, in the past, the inconvenience to normal living would usually be gradual, limited and bearable. Read the rest of this entry »
By VENUS MAY H. SARMIENTO
‘Twas the night when roofs of houses and buildings went flying like some magic carpets and trees were falling down like puny sticks.
Tropical storm Cosme’s ominous winds were felt starting in the afternoon of May 17, but no one perhaps not even PAGASA, expected the kind of disaster it would bring in its passage to become the worst weather disturbance ever to hit Dagupan City and the province since typhoon Gading in 1998.
The unusually strong winds were first felt at around 8 a.m. but by and large, it was business as usual for major establishments even as typhoon signal number 2 was raised by PAGASA. At 11a.m., the winds grew stronger, strong enough to blow off an umbrella of a walking individual. Read the rest of this entry »
By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.
MY late father, a cop all his fruitful life who retired as a police colonel with unblemished record, never smoked; neither did he drink. A teetotaler, as the late poet-fictionist by the Pantal river and one of my great literary mentors in college and in my later years as a columnist-editor, Armando R. Ravanzo, would quaintly label those of that species of humanity.
In a way, yes, I have taken after that firm resolve of my dad not to smoke – or drink liquor in excess thereby making a fool of oneself — though you can say I applied it in quite another field, journalism, my career and passion. This, I know, is a cardinal violation of the unwritten code of newspapermen, that is, to drink like a fish and write like a demon. Frankly, I don’t know how Read the rest of this entry »
Mario F. Karateka
AMAGAMAGA a kuan daray matatakken. Singa kulang na rikado, no diad salita daray managloto.
Anggapoy Nana Gloria, anggapoy Cuya Joe ed panaon na pangilukas na sankabalgan a proyekton imprastruktura ed Dagupan – samay tatawagen natan ya Taytay na Pantal – ya manbiliy singa sakey bilyon a pisos. Say wadman a sinmabi labat a sankatagyan ya opisyal nasyonal et si Sekretaryo Hermogenes Ebdane na DPWH tan say ambassador na Hapon a si Makoto Katsura. Read the rest of this entry »
WHILE President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Congressman Joe De Venecia did not turn up to “bridge the gap”, the Pantal bridge and Dawel-Lucao diversion road nevertheless opened smoothly to the public without glitch in a simple ceremony attended by key national and local officials led by Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr..
Public Works and Highways secretary Hermogenes Ebdane, a self-confessed Dagupeno, waxed sentimental as recalled serving as Dagupan police chief in 1977, before he presented a detailed briefing on the city’s biggest infrastructure project that stands to benefit 8000 vehicles daily and lessen traffic congestion most especially in A.B. Fernandez Avenue. Read the rest of this entry »
By VENUS MAY H. SARMIENTO
ALAMINOS CITY – A total of 4,737 farmers received full rice seed subsidy in a joint undertaking of the Department of Agriculture and the city government to give flesh to the city’s vision for better and massive food production to benefit its constituents.
City Agriculturist Ernesto De Leon said the subsidy program is of two kinds – the certified seeds subsidy and the hybrid rice subsidy. Read the rest of this entry »
By Venus May H, Sarmiento
ALAMINOS CITY, Pangasinan – This vast agricultural province ranks third nationwide in terms of rice production and has a self-sufficiency rate of 170%, according to a representative of the Department of Agriculture.
Dr. Jeanette Villareal of DA Regional Field Unit I said, Pangasinan comes third after the provinces of Nueva Ecija and Isabela while Region I is number 4 country-wide.
“Pangasinan’s self-sufficiency rate on rice production is 170%, however the land area for hybrid rice production is not maximized, “ Villareal said before a thousand farmers who attended the city’s launching of its hybrid rice seed subsidy program onTuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
By BEHN FER. HORTALEZA, JR.
WITH four confirmed deaths in the city in its hands from killer typhoon Cosme’s onslaught, the City Disaster Coordinating Council (CDCC) chaired by Mayor Alipio Fernandez, Jr. is constantly assessing the situation to ensure it gets a total overall picture of the calamity.
At 5 p.m Tuesday afternoon, the CDCC has gathered volunteer workers and disaster brigade members along with all barangay heads for another update on relief and rehabilitation efforts at the City Museum which serves as the council’s nerve center.
Fernandez said the death toll from the typhoon stood at four consisting of the three Poseiro children, ages 2 to 4 years old, all of barangay Bonuan and an old man, Jesus Maramba of Bonuan Read the rest of this entry »
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