Ilocos Times - Online

The ILOCOS TIMES Online Issue Vol. VI No. 18-19
November 21 - December 04, 2005

HEADLINE

DENR closes LC landfill
Garbage collection also stopped

DUMPING SITE

After declaring that the Laoag City sanitary landfill was indeed a landfill, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) regional office has made another turnaround as it ordered the closure of the said garbage facility for not conforming to technical guidelines and criteria for its operations.
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Honolulu mayor visits IN

“The Filipinos are world-class when it comes to hospitality and sharing.”

This was the impression of Honolulu (Hawaii) Mayor Mufi Hanneman upon his arrival at Provincial Capitol on Wednesday, November 30, to pay a courtesy call on Ilocos Norte Governor Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr.
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Substandard airport?
Keon calls for LIA improvement

“THE Laoag International Airport is an international airport more in name than in substance.” This was stressed by Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) member Michael M. Keon in his privilege speech calling for the immediate improvement of the Laoag International Airport (LIA)...
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Ilocana OFW maltreated in Taiwan

San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte—Martesa Jenny Paguirigan, 36 years old, married with five children and a resident of Barangay 11 in this town was sent home to the Philippines just four months after she started working as a caregiver in Taiwan.
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Special Feature
Msgr. Jacinto A. Jose: The Glory of Serving God

The Diocese of Laoag, from the time it started to spread Christianity and evangelization, is now experiencing the glory of serving Him with the elevation of Msgr. Jacinto Agcaoili Jose as the new Bishop of the Diocese of Urdaneta (Pangasinan) by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.
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