PROVINCIAL EXECS TO DISCUSS OPTIONS LINGAYEN–Farmers and landowners are preparing to go to the Supreme Court to question the legality of the provincial ordinance that increased property taxes by more than 300 percent effective this year.
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READY FOR SP VETO OVERRIDE GIVE me a reason. MAYOR Benjamin Lim, who is likely to veto some provisions of the approved 2011 budget for Dagupan City, has acknowledged that the Sangguniang Panlungsod could very well override his veto but sought justification from the council members should they decide to…
Mayor Lim demands just cause
A PUBLIC prosecutor in Dagupan City was convicted by the Sandiganbayan for demanding and receiving a P20,000 bribe money from a respondent who had pending cases before his office in 2005. In a 30-page decision penned by Associate Justice Maria Cristina Cornejo, the anti-graft court’s Fourth Division handed down a…
Dagupan City prosecutor convicted for bribery
NEW R1AA CHAMP–Governor Amado Espino Jr. proudly presents the team championship trophy to Pangasinan II represented by Schools Division Superintendent Viraluz Raguindin ending the 11-year reign of Ilocos Norte in the recently concluded 2011 Region 1 Athletic Association Meet held at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center. The sporting…
NEW R1AA CHAMP
LINGAYEN—Pangasinan finally did it! Pangasinan II bagged the overall championship title in this year’s Region I Athletic Association (R1AA), dethroning Ilocos Norte, the perennial champion for the past 11 years.
Pangasinan II is new Region1AA champ
MANGALDAN—The five head teachers here who were implicated in the purported leakage of test questions in the National Achievement Test for Grade VI pupils were slapped with a 90-day preventive suspension by the Department of Education (DepEd). DepEd Regional Director Ligaya Miguel imposed the preventive suspension pending the formal investigation…
5 suspended over NAT leak
LINGAYEN–April 5 is a special non-working holiday in the province in celebration of “Agew na Pangasinan”. The holiday, marking the 431st foundation anniversary of the province, is covered by Proclamation No. 103 of the Office of the President of the Philippines, signed by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr.
Non-working holiday on April 5
SENATOR Francis “Chiz” Escudero has cautioned the government against pursuing proposals to revive the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), saying other sources of safer and cheaper energy should be pursued first. The warning came just as the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, through Board Member Ranjit Ramos Shahani, announced that former 5th…
Escudero cautions against nuclear energy
2011 BANGUS FESTIVAL DAGUPAN’S 31 barangays will participate in the Gilon Gilon ed Dalan street dancing competition on April 28, one of the highlights of the city’s annual Bangus Festival. “Cash prizes will be much higher than last year for the champion, first and second runners-up while the special awards…
Barangays take center stage in Gilon-Gilon Fest
TSUNAMI-PREPAREDNESS —Office of Civil Defense Regional Director Andrew Alex Uy explains objectives a tsunami-disaster preparedness program when he spoke at the KBP forum at the Philippine Information Agency Center last week. Also in photo are City Administrator Vlad Mata with Bernie Errasquin and Daniel Sagun, hosts of the forum. Back…
