TO SAVE P1.7 MILLION A MONTH THE Dagupan City government has lowered the boom finally on its bloated bureaucracy by issuing an order terminating all 285 emergency workers and 27 consultants ostensibly as a prelude to the planned reorganization program and to generate at least P1 million in savings every…
IF the Dagupan City’s Administrator is to be believed, the Commission on Audit’s report on Dagupan City’s finances is not true. City Administrator Rafael Baraan vehemently rejected the recent financial report of the Commission on Audit that ranked the city as number one spender and reporting the lowest in net…
LINGAYEN – Is there a dengue epidemic in the province? This is what a team from the regional office of the Department of Health (DOH) intends to verify when it arrived to probe the rising cases of dreaded dengue hemorrhagic fever which has already claimed 13 lives across the province,…
COA REPORT SHOWS THE province of Pangasinan is now the fifth leading province in the whole Philippines in net income performance, sixth in total income and first in amount of Internal Revenue Allotment received from the national government for 2005. Pangasinan’s outstanding financial performance was among the financial highlights of…
BINMALEY – His predecessor built more than 100 “modern and world-class” police stations to improve the efficiency of the policemen. The new chief wants to build homes for 74,000 homeless cops nationwide. Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Oscar Calderon said he will seek to accomplish the housing project before…
SAN NICOLAS – Former Press Secretary and Information Minister Gregorio Cendaña was laid to rest Saturday at the municipal cemetery of his native San Nicolas after a requiem mass at the town’s parish priests attended by thousands of friends and relatives. Mrs. Lily Cendaña, widow of the late information minister,…
A government doctor here has warned Pangasinenses against the rising number of persons positive of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), particularly among returning overseas Filipino workers (OFW). Dr. Jocelyn Tongson, chief of the Social Hygiene Clinic based here, said based on the National Aids Registry 21 cases are spread around the…
A motorcycle cop died while undergoing training but his death was not recorded in the police blotter. Adding to the mystery surrounding his death, everyone in the police force particularly the officers who directed the training and Pangasinan police officers was mum about it. SPO4 Rodel Callope of TMG region…
LINGAYEN- The Office of the Provincial Veterinarian (OPVet) is not taking any chances in its effort to keep the province Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD)-free. Amid persistent reports that there are increasing attempts by syndicates to smuggle in animals afflicted with FMD and other diseases, the OPVet has re-intensified efforts to examine…
Some 680 kilos of “galunggong” worth P44,200 and suspected to have been caught with the use of dynamite were seized by the police and representatives of the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources while these were being sold at the Magsaysay fish market in Dagupan City Tuesday night. P/Supt. Mateo…
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