MAYOR’S SON INCENSED A RESOLUTION introduced by the new majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod seeking to affirm and confirm their earlier controversial resolution approved in a special session on April 20, 2012 and to ratify all legal procedures pursuant to the sale of the MC Adore property was foiled by…
ONLINE CASINO IS OFFLINE—T2 RAF Electronic Station set up shop at the The Ragtime Bldg on Perez Boulevard in Dagupan City for an online casino operation after it was issued a business permit by the Office of Mayor Benjamin Lim in early September. The permit was revoked last week following…
DAGUPAN Mayor Benjamin S. Lim acting on the complaint of Archbishop Socrates Villegas of the Lingayen-Dagupan Archdiocese, ordered the immediate revocation of the business permit issued to T2 RAF Electronic Gaming Station owned by Rafael Tabora for the operation of an online casino shop in Dagupan. Archbishop Villegas, spearheading the…
BINMALEY—Eight councilors here and the vice mayor, who chairs the Sangguniang Bayan (SB), have taken their battle before the provincial board. Administrative charges have been filed by the two parties against each other before the provincial board’s Committee on Good Governance for grave misconduct in office over the contentious council…
PROTESTING THE FILM—An all-women delegation of the Muslim community in Pangasinan hold their placards denouncing the anti-Islam film during the protest march in Dagupan City that ended in a public rally at the city plaza. (Punchphoto by Willie Lomibao) Back to Homepage
SOME 750 Muslims from all over Pangasinan gathered at the Dagupan City plaza early Friday to express their condemnation of the anti-Islamic film entitled “Innocence of Muslims”, which has sparked worldwide protests. The rally held from 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. was peaceful and orderly as the city police, boosted…
THE Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) will achieve a medical milestone tomorrow, October 1, when its doctors perform the first kidney transplant in the government-owned hospital. The transplant from a living donor to a recipient will be performed by a team of R1MC doctors trained by the National Kidney and…
TRAGIC DEATH—Workers at the first-in-the-world Fish Cemetery located at the National Integrated Fisheries Technology Development Center in Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City carry a headless giant green sea turtle that died from dynamite fishing in the waters off San Fabian town last September 23. (Punchphoto by Ray Zambrano) Back to Homepage
WITH its intensified campaign against illegal fishing, Dagupan City’s River and Coastal Protection Management Office (RCPMO) arrested last week in Barangay Pugaro four fishermen caught using prohibited fishing devices. Arrested on two separate occasions by elements of the RCPMO headed by Manuel L. Gutierrez were Pugaro residents June S. Ferrer,…
THE management of the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) is mulling legal action against a national television program for labeling the government-owned hospital “dugyot”, a word with Ilocano roots that connotes filth and mess. Dr. Roland Mejia, hospital director, said the TV program aired last September 20 unfairly and maliciously…
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