The enterprising fry dealers By Roberto Garcia MANY in the bangus and shrimp growing industry must have encountered the so-called “ahente” or dealers who supply the required fry or fingerling to pond operators usually at a higher cost than at farm gate price. This business is highly competitive in that…
NEW MAJORITY EMERGES THE tables have been turned at the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) in Dagupan. Backed by nine members, the SP effected a top-to-bottom reorganization on Wednesday, two days after the July 9 regular session, which put the once vaunted majority into the minority. The reorganization was brought on by…
LONE VOICE—Councilor Alipio Serafin Fernandez (at the podium) declares his vehement objection to the new set of Comprehensive Rules and Procedures of the Sangguniang Panlungsod in a privilege speech ahead of the reorganization of the body during a special session Wednesday, warning that its implementation would make the chamber subservient to the…
VICE Mayor Belen Fernandez said that the new comprehensive set of internal rules and procedures adopted by the new majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) was not simply directed against her but at the heart of transparency and good governance. She said the new set of internal rules and procedures…
REPORTING FOR DUTY–-Incoming officer-in-charge of the Provincial Police Office, Senior Supt. Mariano Luis “Sonny” Verzosa, Jr. (right), pays a courtesy call on Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. (left) last July 11. Verzosa will officially assume his new post on July 16. (PIO Photo) Back to Homepage
ALL’S well that ends well in a compromise, so it seems, for Governor Amado Espino Jr. and Police Senior Superintendent Mariano Luis Verzosa Jr., chief of intelligence of the Police Regional Office 1 who will assume as provincial police chief starting July 16, albeit on an officer-in-charge capacity. This was disclosed…
LINGAYEN– A proposed provincial ordinance regulating men-riding-in-tandem on motorcycles will soon be passed by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), according to the law’s author, Sixth District Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr. This developed as the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) manifested their full support to the…
LINGAYEN–The mayor of Urbiztondo is in hot water for withdrawing part of a P55 million loan for the municipality from the Philippine National Bank (PNB) prior to the approval by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP’s) of the ordinance on the loan approved by the municipal council. Making the situation worse for…
SEAL OF GOOD HOUSEKEEPING—Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo (2nd from right) presents the facsimile of a P1-million check from the Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) to Sison Mayor Mina Joy Pangasinan (2nd from left) during the DILG Region 1’s Tapatan on Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change Adaptation held in San…
SEAL OF GOOD HOUSEKEEPING SAN FERNANDO CITY-Twenty six local government units (LGUs) in Pangasinan received the Performance Challenge Fund (PCF) worth P30 million last Tuesday here from Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo. The recipient LGUs were earlier conferred the Seal of Good Housekeeping (SGH), a measure of excellence…
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