ILLEGAL DUMPING–Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez listens as Waste Management Division’s (WMD) Teddy Villamil explains his side during the dialogue held between the WMD and residents of Barangay Bonuan Boquig on the issue of the illegal garbage dumping at two private lots in their area. (Punchphoto by Mitz Cresencio) Back to Homepage
FOR ILLEGAL DUMPING OF GARBAGE THE Dagupan City government is liable under Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological and Solid Waste Management Act for transferring wastes extracted from the dumpsite to any other location. This was stressed by Rodolfo de Ocampo, environmental management officer of the Department of Environment and…
CITY Administrator Vladimir Mata has clarified that the delay of the release of the midyear bonus and cash gift of the city government employees was not due to the inaction of Mayor Benjamin Lim who went on leave for a personal trip to Switzerland. Even as Mata explained that the…
MANGALDAN—Four officials of the municipal government here are now facing administrative investigation for dishonesty in connection with the discovery of the Commission on Audit of unliquidated balance amounting to more than P7 million in the town coffer last year and up to early this year. Mayor Herminio Romero said the…
FLAGS DOWN—Nature takes part in the celebration with a lightning beaming through the sky as the regional flags are lowered during the closing ceremonies of the Palarong Pambansa 2012 at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center in Lingayen on May 12. Seventeen regions around the country participated in the…
LINGAYEN–More than a thousand lit balloons released by athletes glowed in the early evening sky on May 12 in a dramatic closure of the 2012 Palarong Pambansa at the Narciso Ramos Sports and Civic Center (NRSCC) here. As the balloons soared, the athletes and other members of the delegations joined…
BACK IN ACTION—Workers of the Dagupan Seafood Processing Plant in Bonuan Binloc in their prescribed uniforms work under negative 35-degree centigrade temperature to process fish for export to the United States as the facility resumed operations on May 14 after a long lull starting October 7, 2011. (Punchphoto) Back to…
MEN and women clad in white coats and transparent plastic caps are back at work at the Dagupan Seafood Processing Plant since May 14 after the facility was closed on October 7, 2011. Under the supervision of a food technologist from the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), the processing plant finally…
JUSTICE may have taken long to come, but it has been served. A decision of the Regional Trial Court of Baguio on October 6, 2011 sentencing four persons, all believed to be hired killers, to life imprisonment in connection with the slaying of the barangay chairman of Tambac, Malasiqui nine years ago. Sentenced…
ANTI-PIRACY CAMPAIGN–Optical Media Board (OMB) Chairman Ronnie Ricketts meets with Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez at the city hall when he was in the city to personally lead another anti-piracy campaign in Dagupan City with a raid on May 17 that resulted in the seizure of truckloads of pirated DVDs and VCSs being…
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