IN a bid to avoid what could be a protracted legal battle, Dagupan City Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. is set to go to sitio Russia in Bonuan Binloc on Tuesday to personally persuade the residents there to accept their relocation in order to give way to the construction of a…
STO. TOMAS—The Police Provincial Office has also thrown its support behind the issuance of a pump shotgun to each of the 1,330 barangay chairmen (kapitan) of Pangasinan by the provincial government. Police Provincial Director Sr. Superintendent Isagani Nerez said this was a sound move by Governor Amado Espino Jr. who…
Nerez defends arming of barangay kapitans
ONLY three congressional districts of Pangasinan from the present six would be recast or reconfigured in order to create a new legislative district for Pangasinan under House Bill No. 4267 originally authored by Reps. Arthur Celeste, Victor Agbayani and Rachel Arenas. To be re-districted are Celeste’s first district; Agbayani’s second…
Only 3 districts to be affected
LINGAYEN-Eight men have been charged for the murder of Agno Mayor Arthur Cabantac, including a barangay chairman, one tanod, the alleged gunman and five John Does. The murder case was filed by Task Force Cabantac, the special group formed to specifically look into the mayor’s gunslaying, at the Prosecutor’s Office…
PNP file charges versus Mayor Cabantac’s killers
WILL it be the wife, Gina, or the son, Joey, who will be in the running to replace former House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. after he completes his last term in office as 4th District representative? Both Gina and Joey have recently expressed the possibility of their respective candidacies…
Gina, son Joey ponder on succeeding JdV in Congress
BINALONAN—The League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) led by Mayor Ramon Guico Jr. of this town, president of the LMP with a 1,500-strong membership, and a cousin of President Gloria Arroyo, believes in the slogan “Kung maliit ang pamilya, kayang-kaya”. The league, however, stops short of endorsing the controversial…
Guico advocates “small family”
A new telephone system that will use 10 trunk lines instead of single individual lines has been proposed to be set up in the Dagupan City hall to help the city government cut telephone costs. Joseph Sto. Domingo, chief of the information communications technology group of the mayor’s office, said…
Drastic cost cutting of city hall’s phone bills eyed
A NEW Dagupan City Police Station with modern facilities is expected to become another model station in Northern Luzon. P/Supt. Mariano Luis Verzosa Jr., officer-in-charge of the Dagupan Police, said construction is scheduled to start by the end of September and target completion date is within six to eight months….
Soon, a state-of-the-art PNP station for Dagupan
Jose Ceralde 8 Sept 2008 Partnership in Tourism particularly in Dagupan is truly a sound investment. Our government servants and civic organizations with their own businesses could make this a reality. Imagine the government launching the annual fiesta in partnership with Star Plaza Hotel, with place to stay, airport pick-ups…
The potential of gov’t-business partnership
Eric Cayabyab 7 Sept 2008 Gud am po. sana naman po matapos na ang paghihirap ng mga taga Bautista at Bayambang dahil hanggang sa ngayon po eh walang gumagawa sa Calvo Bridge. Maawa naman po ang mga nangangasiwa nito. Marami na po kasi ang sumasakit ang ulo lalo na mga…