AMONG 8 ILOCOS REGION CITIES LINGAYEN – Move over Dagupan City, Urdaneta City is now the cream of the crop. Based on the financial report released by the Commission on Audit for 2005, Urdaneta City is now the leading city not only in Pangasinan but in the Ilocos region in…
NATIVIDAD – A plan of the New People’s Army (NPA) to lay siege on the municipal hall and police station of Natividad was foiled Monday night by army soldiers and policemen. The plan was thwarted when the police led by Sr. Insp. Bernardo Aromin, chief of police, received an intelligence…
By Analiza Leyba THE city of Dagupan retained only five per cent or P18,901,000 net income from its total income of P357,404,000 because of its huge expenses of P338,503,000 last year. This was disclosed by City Budget Officer Ildefonso Calimlim in reaction to the published report of the Commission…
Behind Urdaneta City’s phenomenal rise to stardom in governance is a tested and proven public official who believes that adoption of full transparency and accountability as a policy is the key to good governance. When informed of the Commission on Audit’s findings in 2005, City Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. was…
FORMER Information Minister Gregorio Cendaña passed away Friday after he suffered a heart attack in their home in Manila. He was 67. Cendaña, then the Information Minister of President Ferdinand Marcos and an elected assemblyman of Pangasinan, was a native of San Nicolas town. His family has yet to…
THE provincial health team of the Department of Health in the province has listed a total of 645 suspected dengue patients, four of whom have died as of August 12 this year. The number was culled from the number of patients admitted to government and private hospitals and some rural…
LINGAYEN – Public safety is at risk. This is the gist of the resolution filed by Sangguniang Panlalawigan Majority Floorleader John Agerico Rosario urging transportation government agencies to establish accreditation guidelines for private vans for hire in Pangasinan. Rosario noted an increasing number of private vans that double as public…
Dagupan City – Mayor Benjamin Lim and officials from Iwata City, Japan will award 32 more housing units to the family beneficiaries of the Gawad Kalinga-Bangusville housing project on August 30. Lim and the Japanese officials will turn over the symbolic keys to the indigent beneficiaries at the Gawad Kalinga…
BAYAMBANG – The minimum motorized tricycle fare in Bayambang will soon be P9. The Sangguniang Bayan approved the increased fare on second reading Tuesday at its first out-of-town regular session. In its session held at the Leisure Coast Resort in Dagupan, the SB approved an additional P2 minimum fare for…
Amid reports of rising prostitution in Dagupan City, “Oplan Kalapati” was relaunched. The raids in three separate areas in the city resulted in the arrest of some 27 sex commercial workers and pimps. The two-day raids were conducted by a composite team from the Women and Children Complaints Desk (WCCD)…
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