Lopsided win By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THE anticipated close match between the LNU Dukes and UPang-PHINMA Flames in the championship games proved to be a mismatch. The raging Dukes of Atty. Gonzalo Duque showed once more to us basketball buffs that they are indisputably superior and supreme in…
It’s about R-E-S-P-E-C-T By Johanne Margarette R. Macob I REMEMBER almost a year ago, I wrote about plagiarism here. I started it out with: “When I entered college, the very tenets instilled to us were that of ‘Honor and Excellence’. Honor first before excellence, for without the former, the…
DAGUPAN FUND SHORTAGE THE severe budget deficit created by the Lim administration finally takes its toll on the ranks of emergency workers (EWs) and consultants hired by the Fernandez administration and benefits of volunteer workers. The number of EWs, also called Job Order Employees (JOEs), as well as consultants of the…
RECORDS released by the City Accounting Office on September 27 indicate that four Dagupan City officials have not liquidated the financial assistance of varying amounts released to them by the city government during the previous administration of former Mayor Benjamin Lim. They are former councilor and now Vice Mayor Brian…
A resolution was filed in the Sangguniang Panlungsod seeking the creation of an ad hoc blue ribbon committee to handle the open letter complaint of The PUNCH editor-publisher Ermin Garcia Jr. published in The PUNCH’s Sep. 22 issue against some officials of Dagupan City. Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo, who proposed…
LINGAYEN–An inter-agency committee has been formed by the provincial government to investigate the proliferation of commercial floating fish cages near Cabalantian Island in Sual Bay, feared to be posing serious danger to the 1,200 megawatt Sual Coal-fired Power Plant.
ON ILLEGAL DRUGS ALL the 31 barangays of Dagupan City are “drug affected” with five of these considered as critically affected based on the parameters set by the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB) headed by Secretary Antonio Villar Jr. Supt. Christopher Abrahano, chief of police of Dagupan, identified the critically affected…
IF DETRACTORS CAN PROVE ANOMALY BINMALEY–Mayor Simplicio Rosario said he is willing to resign from his post if his detractors can show proof he benefited from the Malampaya fund, portions of which he and 16 other mayors of Pangasinan allegedly received. In a press conference Wednesday, Rosario discussed the Malampaya…
AFTER weeks of contradicting reports about the actual number of illegal fish pens dismantled, the Bantay Ilog Task Force, led by City Agriculturist Emma Molina, admitted that it has failed to meet the deadline set by Mayor Belen Fernandez. The team still has 12 more structures to demolish this week.
BATTLING ILLEGAL DRUGS-–-Police Supt. Christopher Abrahano (right), chief of police of Dagupan, recommends to the City Anti-Drug Abuse presided by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez (center), the implementation of Barangay Drug-Clearing Operations, especially in the five “critically affected” barangay to check thriving illegal drug trade. Joining the meeting are City Legal Officer…
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