ANGELES CITY, Pampanga, March 22 (PIA) — A world-renowned Filipina pianist will be performing in Holy Angel University (HAU) in a concert today. Cecile Licad, whom the New York Times described as “a combination of fragile grace and fiery power,” will perform for the first time in this province in a concert dubbed, “An Evening […]
WE WRITE to demand a public apology from Mr. Arnel San Pedro for the callous and reckless manner with which he has maliciously depicted the City of Angeles as nothing more than a place of prostitution and gambling in his column appearing in the March 26, 2012 issue of Sun.Star Pampanga entitled “More domestic flights.” […]
Pampanga Provincial Administrator Atty. Andres S. Pangilinan, Jr. and Board Member Ric Yabut witness the blessing and turn-over of tricycle units to the different barangays of the City of San Fernando in line with the provincial government’s efforts to further intensify the monitoring of peace and order situation. Photo also shows PNP Provincial Director Edgardo […]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Mar. 30 (PIA) — The provincial government through its Investment and Promotion Office (PIPO) and the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) recently gathered concerned municipal and city officers to identify potential investment projects geared towards the promotion of Pampanga as an ideal investment destination and investor-friendly area. DTI Provincial […]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Philippines—Madrid-based Business Initiative Directions (BID) gave the Century International Quality Era (CQE) Gold Award to meat processing company Mekeni Food Corp. during its 14th convention on March 11 in Geneva, Switzerland. Prudencio Garcia, Mekeni president, shared the news last week in a letter to Levy Laus, chairman of the Pampanga Chamber […]
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga, Apr. 1 (PIA) — Governor Lilia G. Pineda lauded the national government through the Department of Health (DOH) for its generous assistance and support in the construction, repair, expansion and equipping of district hospitals and rural health units in Pampanga. Thus said the governor in her message during the provincial […]
I find it ironic that something destructive can give birth to splendor. Apart from Anawangin Cove and the Crater Lake which was redesigned by the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the 1990’s, Puning Hot Spring is another impressive outcome of its madness. Our 4×4 jeep swayed past a wide expanse of desert-like sands with lava […]
STO. TOMAS — Residents from Pampanga’s fourth district welcomed the Provincial Government’s plan to establish a satellite campus for the Don Honorio Ventura Technological State University (DHVTSU) in Barangay Moras del Paz in this town. According to them, the satellite campus in the locality would open educational opportunities for the poor but deserving students in […]
Former president and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s plans to travel abroad to seek medical care for a rare bone disease has been rejected by the Department of Justice. In denying GMA’s request for an allow departure order (ADO), Secretary Leila de Lima said she has seen no exceptional reason to allow the former president […]
ANGELES CITY — Owners of four funeral parlors here are asking the City Council to exempt them from the implementation of an ordinance setting a common place for memorial homes. This was gleaned in a position paper dated March 26, 2012 prepared by Grace M. Perez of Funeraria Luzon, Philip Cesar Samson of Pangilinan Memorial […]