“VALUE ENGINEERING PROJECT” THE restaurant project, touted by Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim as his tourism-related initiative, being constructed in an area across the equally controversial Daongan Ed Dawel appears to have been aborted.
OUT IN THE FIELD—The Sangguniang Panlungsod of Dagupan holds its first outside session in the island barangay of Salapingao on October 24 with Second Highway Engineering District Engineer Rodolfo Dion, the only resource speaker who honored the legislative body’s invitation. Department heads continued to snub the city council. (Punchphoto by…
OUT IN THE FIELD
THE government’s engineering office offered a more plausible explanation for the unusual and frequent flooding in Dagupan City these days.
The narrow, shallow Pantal River cause flooding in city–DPWH
BINMALEY—It’s a demolition job against me! This was the reaction of former Mayor Simplicio Rosario to media reports linking him to a P6.2 million in cash advances supposedly obtained by present and former employees of the Binmaley municipal government that have remained unliquidated or unpaid.
Ex-Binmaley mayor decries cash advance issue
FLAGS were kept at half mast in all government offices in Dagupan on Friday as the city joined the country in mourning the death of Dagupeño Salvador Bernal, named National Artist for Theatre and Design in 2003.
National Artist Bernal, 66
URDANETA CITY–The P200-million engineered sanitary landfill of the city government here is now open to receive garbage from adjacent towns – for a fee.
Urdaneta sanitary landfill now open to adjacent towns
LINGAYEN—At least 60 more farmers from Rosales town hired to plant and harvest rice in Balungao and Umingan towns are now suspected to be afflicted with leptospirosis.
60 Rosales farmers manifest leptospirosis symptoms
“WHO ME? NOT ME!” SAN CARLOS CITY–With a history of five murdered kapitans in Barangay Mestizo Norte here, the next in line for the job has refused to take on the position.
No taker for kapitan job in San Carlos
GOVERNMENT employees from Pangasinan who were affected by the recent typhoons “Pedring” and “Quiel” can now avail of the calamity loan from the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS).
GSIS calamity loan now available
AN innovative approach in disaster risk reduction will be adapted soon in Dagupan. The use of the Rapid Earthquake Damage Assessment System (REDAS) software was recently taught to officials of the City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (CDRRMC).