LBC loading relief goods to the LBC container van By Dindo Orbeso & Romy Zetazate   The Filipino owned LBC cargo and money remittance company continue to support the sending of relief goods which were packed and repacked by volunteers at the Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church located at…

FOR LACK OF QUORUM TECHNICAL consultants and emergency workers of the Dagupan City government numbering some 300 will have to wait longer before receiving their unpaid wages for the months of September and October. The continued delay is due to the Sangguniang Panlungsod’s failure to pass the proposed supplemental budget…

BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS—Belen Codiamat arranges her parols (Christmas lanterns) for sale, a popular Christmas décor, along the hi-way in barangay Pao in Manaoag. She said sales remain low as of last week but expects trade to perk up in the coming weeks as Christmas nears. (Punchphoto…

THE Court of Appeals has denied the motion for reconsideration filed jointly by the Magic Group of Companies and local government officials on the use of a public property located at the center of Malasiqui town. THE CA Eighth Division previously reversed a 2012 decision of the Regional Trial Court (RTC)…

COUNCILOR Jose Netu Tamayo, chair of the ad hoc blue ribbon committee of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) in Dagupan, is set to recommend to the city council that the investigation on the case of unliquidated cash advances by some councilors to the Commission on Audit (COA). Tamayo is making the…

WONDER no more why the Dagupan City government is broke. City Budget Officer Luz de Guzman has revealed that right at the start of the year, the city government under former mayor Benjamin Lim already had a beginning deficit of P34 million. The financial shortfall was “cured” by utilizing part…

VARIOUS groups in Pangasinan, including the provincial government, the Catholic Church and from the private sector, have quickly organized to send assistance to victims of the tragic Yolanda typhoon. The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) during its regular session on November 11, has allocated P4 million from its calamity fund to be…

LINGAYEN — Pangasinan’s great leaders must have a place of honor befitting them. This was proposed by Vice Gov. Jose Ferdinand Calimlim, Jr. in a resolution “requesting the Pangasinan Historical and Cultural Commission (PHCC) to recommend a possible relocation site within the Capitol compound for the busts, statutes and monuments…