AUDITOR’S RECOMMENDATION PAST and present officials of Dagupan could go to jail for allowing current appropriations to pay for the previous year’s obligations, a practice that became standard under the administration of former Mayor Benjamin Lim. City Auditor Virgilio Quinto, in an Audit Observation Memorandum, recommended the filing of administrative and criminal cases against the persons involved in…
ANDA—A P50,000 reward money has been put up by the municipal government here for information that would lead to the arrest of the still unidentified suspect or suspects behind the brutal murder of a 16-year old student at her home in Barangay Awag here. The killing of Ma. Julie Carlit,…
A SUSPECTED LEADER of a notorious carnapping group in Pangasinan was arrested by the San Manuel police Thursday morning in Sitio Taguipuro, Flores, San Manuel town. Chief Superintendent Ricardo Marquez, Region 1 police director, identified the suspect as Randy Galamgam alias “Sammy”, 23, a resident of San Vicente, San Manuel .
PANGASINAN TOP IN R1 TOURIST ARRIVALS LINGAYEN–Pangasinan remained on top among all provinces in Region 1 in terms of tourist arrivals and the Department of Tourism (DOT) said the statistics could be higher with a better reporting system from lodging facilities. DOT Region 1 Director Martin Valera, speaking during the…
THERE’S more work cut out for the Commission on Audit (COA) in Dagupan as the city government has asked for a review of several purchases made under the Lim administration suspected to be irregular and overpriced. Among these purchases, using the calamity fund, are some 248 hand-held radios and a…
THE Commission on Audit (COA) has given the nod to the Dagupan City government to take immediate action to recover the P2.5 million paid to a contractor as mobilization fee for the construction of the aborted Maternal Child Care and Lying-in Hospital. State Auditor Virgilio Quinto said Mayor Belen Fernandez…
SAFE CRASH-LANDING—Residents mill around the Piper Seneca plane that crash-landed on a rice field in Barangay Domingo Alarcio in Laoac in the morning Sept.11. The plane is a trainer plane of the WCC Aeronautics Flying School in Barangay Limmansangan, Laoac. The passengers and the pilots walked out of the plane…
LAOAC–A training plane crash-landed in a rice field in Barangay D. Alarcio here around 8:30 a.m. of September 11 but its pilot, co-pilot and two student passengers were unhurt. On board were Capt. Amar Deep, 27, pilot, a Malaysian national; Haresh Sager, 20, co-pilot, an Indian national; and two aircraft…
WEST Central 1 Elementary School in Dagupan will soon have a new three-storey, nine-classroom building to be funded by the Department of Education (DepEd). Seven classrooms of the school were burned down last September 2 and four others located at the General Douglas McArthur Hall have been vacated due to…
THE Dagupan police has called on the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) to pass an ordinance requiring businesses in the city to install closed-circuit television (CCTV) systems in their commercial premises to help in crime prevention and resolution. SPO2 Rodrigo Vinluan, representing acting police chief P/Supt. Christopher Abrahano during the KBP forum…
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