TAX PAYERS UP IN UPROAR LINGAYEN–A 300 percent increase in property tax took effect in January this year, prompting a wave of protests from various sectors in the province. “Atrocious and oppressive” was how some property owners described the increase wherein those, for example, who were paying only P300 in…
DAGUPAN Councilor Luis Samson Jr., chairman of the Dagupan city council’s committee on education, said denounced the city government for sending tax assessments to private schools in the city it deemed delinquent. He aid the city government has no legal basis to demand local business taxes from private schools based…
THE intensified city’s campaign against drug dealers and users resulted recently in the arrest of three users at a local inn in Dagupan City. Arrested by intelligence operatives and the Police Special Operations Group led by P/Supt. Romeo Caramat, chief of police, were identified as Boyet Ramos, 26; Raymund King,…
THE woes of the Dagupan City government on the alleged illegal release of calamity fund by the Dagupan City government that was distributed to selected barangay chairmen in the city last year are far from over. It is now confronted with another issue: how to liquidate?
LINGAYEN–The provincial government’s OFW Desk and Crisis Hotline Center was inaugurated here Thursday to assist Pangasinenses and their families who are working in the North African and the Middle Eastern countries which are currently experiencing civil unrests.
FREE CALLS TO OFWS–Governor Amado Esino Jr. assists Maxima Martin of San Manuel town as she talks to her daughter Lolita Paguio, a nurse in Benghazi, Libya, over the phone while Provincial Board Member Ranjit Ramos Shahani watches at the newly-opened OFW Desk and Crisis Hotline Center where relatives of…
LINGAYEN–Not even a harrowing and life-threatening experience in trying to flee strife-torn Libya could discourage them from working abroad again. Two overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Pangasinan, who have just come home from Libya after their work was disrupted by the fighting between protesters backed by renegade soldiers and forces…
LAWYER Gonzalo Duque, president of Lyceum-Northwestern University, said he and the other college and university presidents are ready to hold a dialogue with Mayor Benjamin Lim at the latter’s instance. Duque said they will meet with the mayor “if he will call for us”.
BINMALEY–A P500,000 reward has been put on offer to anyone who can provide the police information that could lead to the identification and arrest of the two suspects who shot and wounded a former vice mayor of Lingayen and his wife, currently a barangay chair, along the highway in Barangay…
FIRE PREVENTION AS the nation observes Fire Prevention Month, the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP) in Dagupan City warned the public to be especially careful in the kitchen as leaks in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanks and unattended cooking are the most prevalent causes of fire.
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