BONUAN LANDGRABBING SCAM “The truth of the matter is I was shocked”. This was the reaction of City Legal Officer George Mejia, noting the many huge and illegal infrastructures now rising simultaneously along the beach in Bonuan Binloc erected by both professional and affluent squatters.

NAMES of Mayor Roy Macanlalay of Calasiao and other prominent personalities were initially identified as among the prominent people who allegedly built structures illegally in the beach area of Bonuan Binloc. Barangay Captain Ronaldo Torio, in an interview with The PUNCH, identified Macanlalay as the allege downer of a fenced…

THE Dagupan City government is now inclined to proceed with the demolition of all illegal structures that were built in the beach area following a meeting on Friday that clarified the issues surrounding the anomalous sale of beach land in Bonuan Binloc. The meeting was attended by members of the…

ALARMED BY KILLINGS LINGAYEN-Ban the gun in Pangasinan. Governor Amado Espino Jr., alarmed by the spate of killings involving firearms, has ordered Senior Superintendent Isagani Nerez, police provincial director, to impose a province-wide gun ban effective Tuesday. Espino cited among others the still unresolved gun slaying of San Carlos City…

LINGAYEN- The cops in the provincial and Dagupan City police stations have reason to crow. Both the Pangasinan Police Provincial Office and the Dagupan City Police Station have been chosen recently as the country’s Best Police Provincial Office and Best City Police Station, respectively, by the Philippine National Police (PNP)….

ON CASE FILED BY METROSTATE There’s bad news and good news for the city government of Dagupan. The bad news is last December 18, Regional Trial Court Judge Rolando Mislang of  Branch 42 granted the motion of Metro State Realty Corporation seeking  the execution of his order,  pending appeal, ordering…

LINGAYEN–A song for Pangasinan. The Pangasinan hymn, the first in the province’s long history, was played for the first time before provincial employees during the regular Monday morning flag raising ceremony in front of the Capitol building. Governor Amado Espino Jr. said the hymn, entitled “Pangasinan Aking Yaman“, reminds Pangasinenses…

TAYUG—This town is under close watch by the police after the bodyguards of the two highest officials of Tayug clashed on January 18 in broad daylight at the town plaza.        Wounded in that incident were Bimbo Clutario and Ruben Sotero Jr., bodyguards of Mayor Carlos Trese Mapili who were…