DENR ISSUES WARNING LEAVE the tukos alone. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) provincial office has warned that it is unlawful to collect and sell the Philippine Bow-Fingered Gecko, also known as ‘Tokay Gecko’ or tuko in Filipino.
RECALL PETITION IN BANI–Mayor Marcelo Navarro Jr. (left) accompanies Barangay Chairman Marcelo Tugas of Garrita, Bani when the latter presented his petition for recall signed by more than 7,000 registered voters against the vice mayor and four council officials before the Municipal Election Office. The petition was not officially filed…
BANI—Some 7,453 residents here signed a petition for the recall of five elected municipal officials, representing more than the minimum 20 percent signatories required by law to warrant its filing before the Commission on Elections (Comelec) The number was announced during a People’s Forum held at the town’s covered court…
LAOAC–The chief of police here has been relieved of his post over a shooting incident where a father and son were killed in the afternoon of June 19 in Barangay Lebueg in a shoot-out with policemen in his presence. Senior Inspector Lodovico Eleazar was ordered relieved by the provincial police…
ALAMINOS CITY–Mayor Hernani Braganza hailed the dismissal of the election protest filed against him by former First District Rep. Arthur Celeste whom he beat for the mayoralty race here in the May 2010 election. Braganza, now on his last and final term of office, said although he has yet to…
BRINGING FUN IN GOVERNANCE–The selected high school student leaders who took over reins of Dagupan City for a week strike various wacky poses after they were introduced by Mayor Benjamin Lim (center) during the Agew na Dagupan celebration last June 20. The happy bunch of city’s young officials in photo…
A TOP official of the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC) has confirmed that the construction of an international seaport in Sual remains a priority of the administration of President Benigno Aquino III. DOTC Undersecretary Dante Velasco told local newsmen on June 20 that the seaport project, whose construction already…
MEMBERS of Dagupan’s Task Force Anti-Hawking (TFAH) and the Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) figured in a confrontation Wednesday over a reported violation of traffic laws by a TFAH member. About 10 to 12 members of TFAH reportedly went to the POSO office on Wednesday morning to confront a…
APPRENTICESHIP FOR VICE MAYORALTY–Young City Vice Mayor Clarisse Zaplan of Mother Goose Special School System Inc. listens to some tips on her duties from Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez when the two made rounds of the different schools in Dagupan last week. Youth leaders served as “city officials” for a week…
MEMBERS of the Sangguniang Panlungsod and youth city legislators will hold a council session side by side on June 27. Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez and Youth Vice Mayor Clarisse Mae Zaplan, a student of Mother Goose Special Science School System, will jointly call the session to order.
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