VOTER turnout in the recent registration organized by the Commission on Elections (Comelec) was higher than expected and no major untoward incident was reported during the nine-day activity. Provincial election supervisor Marino Salas told local newsmen during the KBP forum Thursday that there were were122,000 new registrants for the Sangguniang…
MAGIC- MALASIQUI VENTURE THE Court of Appeals (CA) has denied the motion for reconsideration filed by former Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim et al on the lease contract extended by the local government of Malasiqui for a municipal government property to the Magic Group of Companies owned by Lim.
IT’S final! The Maternal Child Care and Lying-in Hospital planned by the previous city administration has been permanently shelved after the Dagupan City Development Council approved the realignment of its budget to pay for other obligations, including wages of current emergency workers.
BANGUS FESTIVAL AND CITY FIESTA FUNDS FUNDS extended by the past city administration under former Mayor Benjamin Lim as “financial assistance” for the annual Bangus Festival and Dagupan City fiestas have not been fully liquidated, according to City Accountant Teresita Manaois.
THE HATAW DESTROYER—Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez takes the lead in the destruction last Monday of one of seven hataw machines, an illegal gambling apparatus, seized by the Philippine National Police station and the Public Order and Safety Office (POSO) in Barangay I and Arellano Street. The confiscation is…
MAYOR Belen Fernandez spearheaded last week the public destruction of seven gambling machines and ordered Supt. Christopher Abrahano, city police chief, to get rid of all illegal video gambling machines to make Dagupan City “totally hataw-free”. The seven machines, locally known as hataw, were seized by lawmen last Monday from…
MORE than 100 illegal fish pens still need to be cleared from Dagupan’s rivers but City Agriculturist Emma Molina said the dismantling team is determined to complete the clearing by August 30, the deadline set by the mayor. An initial 205 fish pens were identified along the rivers in barangays…
REDISTRICTING PLAN FOR 8 LINGAYEN—The first public consultation for the planned redistricting of the province was held last week and initial discussions point to just the 2nd, 3rd Districts that will be affected by the re-alignment of political boundaries.
CHIKUNGUNYA / LEPTOSPIROSIS ALERT LINGAYEN—Ten suspected cases of chikungunya have been reported in the province, but only one has so far been found positive, according to the Provincial Health Office (PHO). The suspected chikungunya cases were from San Fabian, Bayambang and some western towns.
LINGAYEN–Second District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil is unperturbed about the possibility of the removal of the priority development assistance fund (PDAF) or pork barrel stressing this should not detract congressmen from their main duty of legislation. “It doesn’t matter to me kung ma-retain ‘yon o mawala sa’kin. Naniniwala ako na sa…
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