Quirimit yearns for another Tour title By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE much-awaited and much-touted LBC Ronda Pilipinas multi-stage bikathon is just a month away, ready to kick off from Cagayan de Oro City on September 24.
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ILLEGAL EXACTION? BRING it on! This was the terse reply of Mayor Benjamin Lim to the threat of a lawsuit by private schools based in Dagupan even as latter demanded that the city government refunds the business tax they have paid in previous years
Lim welcomes threat of suit by private schools
LAWYER Gonzalo Duque, president of Lyceum-Northwestern University (LNU), said the school is now determined to take legal action after Mayor Benjamin Lim indicated he would let the court decide whether private schools in Dagupan are exempted or not from paying business taxes.
LNU vs. Mayor Lim
LINGAYEN–While the number of dengue cases in Pangasinan is continuously rising, so far at 1,214 with 10 deaths, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Ma. Ana de Guzman is confident that there is still no need to declare an outbreak in any part of the province.
PHO: Still no dengue outbreak here
UNPERTURBED by reluctant support from the city council, Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim is pursuing the plan to construct a Dagupan hospital inside a school compound.
Lim bent on hospital project
LINGAYEN—The ax finally fell on the assistant provincial jail warden and 14 jail guards of the Provincial Jail. They were suspended in three separate decisions handed down by Governor Amado Espino Jr. based on the investigation conducted by Provincial Legal Officer Geraldine Baniqued.
Asst. prov’l warden, 14 guards suspended
FACING the prospect of being another white elephant in the city, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is being pressed to decide how the Seafood Processing Plant in Dagupan will be operated in the years ahead after its viability has been questioned and the city government expressed interest in regaining control.
DA to decide on fate of seafood plant
RH BILL–Fifth District Congresswoman Kimi Cojuangco gamely fields questions from newsmen about House Bill No. 4244 which she co-authors in the House of Representatives after she spoke during the Policy Forum on the proposed Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health and Population Development Act of 2011 at Lyceum-Northwestern University last Aug. 19….
RH BILL
FIFTH District Rep. Kimi Cojuangco said she and many other congressmen remain hopeful that the controversial House Bill No. 4233 – or the Responsible Parenthood, Reproductive Health and Population Development Act of 2011 – will be put to a vote and passed soon in the House of Representatives after lengthy…
Cojuangco defends RH bill
LINGAYEN—The killing of former NBI official, the latest victim of spate of killings, in Pangasinan has alarmed members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP).
