AFTER LOSING BY DEFAULT Sanitary landfill to be pushed SAN JACINTO–The city of Dagupan finally began a serious offensive to retake the whole 30-hectare land it bought in barangay Awai, San Jacinto in 2002, but lost the following year to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) by default. City Officials…
Dagupan starts initiative to recover Awai property
URDANETA CITY-Bound by history, Ordizia City in the autonomous Basque country in Spain, and Urdaneta City are now sister cities. Urdaneta Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. crossed continents to sign the sisterhood pact with Ordizia City Mayor Jose Miguel Sta. Maria in Ordizia on December 5, coinciding with the 500th birthday…
Urdaneta, Spain’s Ordizia forge sisterhood pact
REGIONAL Trial Court Judge Rolando Mislang of Branch 42 has denied the motion for reconsideration filed by Engineer Ma. Virginia Rosario on his October 22 decision ordering her to issue a building permit to MetroState Realty Corporation, for lack of merit.
MetroState wins another round vs. city hall
Jose de Venecia III, son of House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., has called on fellow Filipinos, especially those with relatives in the United States, to write their US congressmen and senators to lobby for the passage of the Jubilee Act for Expanded Debt Cancellation and Responsible Lending.
Joey de Venecia lobbies for debt cancellation
LINGAYEN-The provincial budget next year is pegged at P1.32 billion from P1.14 billion this year, or higher by 16%. The 2008 budget was approved by the provincial board during last week’s session through Appropriation Ordinance No. 5 series of 2007. The bulk of the province’s General Fund goes to health-related…
2008 provincial budget soars to P1.3 billion
AFTER the storm surge that destroyed the beach sheds lined up at the Blue Beach area, the city government immediately put forward the much awaited Tondaligan Redevelopment Program. The program was discussed during a meeting called by City Administrator Alvin Fernandez, attended by members of the Tondaligan Vendors Cooperative.
City is set pursue redevelopment of Park
MAYOR Alipio Fernandez Jr. pledged anew to build a modern training and processing center for bangus deboning and packaging that will employ women from the Gawad Kalinga housing project. Fernandez said the center seeks to produce processed bangus for household consumption and for the export market to enable the country…
Fernandez vows livelihood training for women in GK
FROM JDV’s PORK BARREL A MILLION pesos for each barangay. House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., representative of the 4th District, made this promise to his constituents last week when officials of the 140 barangays took their oath of office before him. The 4th District covers Dagupan City and the…
Barangays in 4th District to get P1M each for projects
SOME 3,000 to 4,000 pupils have already benefited from a month long feeding program implemented by the city government since July this year. City Nutrition Officer Leah Aquino, project coordinator, said the pupils were from preparatory to Grade III in different public schools in the city. The feeding program, which…
