AS EXPECTED, Mayor Benjamin Lim stamped a partial veto on Dagupan City’s 2011 annual budget as approved by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP). The SP-approved budget was P487 million, lower by P81 million than the P568 million proposed by the mayor. In his 10-page veto letter sent to the SP on…
DAGUPAN’S budget for 2011, which had been reduced by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) by P81 million, kept the budget for the city police intact as proposed. This clarification was made by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chair of the SP, and Councilor Luis Samson Jr., chairman of the SP committee on…
RAIDS in four houses in Barangay Bonuan Binloc in Dagupan City were carried out on March 27 by a group of anti-drug authorities, resulting in the arrest of big-time illegal drug ring leaders Salonga Naga alias “Allan” and his wife, Bulawan Radja. The couple, nabbed in one of the houses,…
LINGAYEN—Another gambling activity has taken roots in the province. After jueteng came drop-ball, both illegal and now jai-alai. The difference is jai-alai has taken a legitimate front. Joint elements of the police who conducted a raid on suspected jueteng joint in Bugallon were surprised last week to find jai-alai betting operations…
GO FOR NUCLEAR POWER–Former 5th District Rep. Mark Cojuangco (with microphone) defends the need to revive the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant and the construction of similar facilities in Pangasinan and other parts of the country during the first Media in Action Forum of the Pangasinan Press Club headed by its president…
FORMER 5th District Rep. Mark Cojuangco may have taken a step back on his campaign to revive the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), but he is not giving up on his proposal to build nuclear plants in Pangasinan. Cojuangco, speaking during a media forum in Dagupan last week, went…
NEW IBP PANGASINAN OFFICERS–Chief Justice Renato Corona (left) officiates the oath-taking of the new officers and members of the board of directors of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines-Pangasinan chapter headed by Atty. Farah Marie Decano (second from left) in ceremonies held at the Leisure Coast Resort on March 27….
IBP-PANGASINAN ADVOCACY THE new president of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) chapter in Pangasinan called on all lawyers in the province to work together and put up a solid front “against the real enemies of justice”.
NETS FOR FISHERMEN–Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. (center) hands fishnets (tabal) to Chairman Diosdado Canilang of Barangay Dulag, Binmaley for distribution to marginal fishermen as part of the provincial government’s livelihood assistance program. The fishnets are also aimed at promoting responsible fishing practices instead of the use of illegal fish…
RIVERS that have been cleared under the provincial government’s “Ilog Ko, Bilayen Tan Aroen Ko” program are now open for fishing. With this development, Governor Amado Espino Jr., assisted by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (PDRRMC) that implemented the river clean-up program, distributed last week 162 fishnets (tabal)…
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