CCTV, ALARMS, GUARDS, HELMETS TO help prevent and solve crime cases in Dagupan City, business establishments are now required to institute basic security measures and the local enforcement of the helmet law has been revised. An ordinance was passed by the Dagupan Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) last Monday requiring business establishments…
THE FOREVER ‘PASAWAYS’ – Two ‘pasaway’ students run to cross Arellano street in Dagupan City obviously hoping they would not be noticed ignoring Balon Dagupan’s huge tarpaulin sign appealing to them to use the foot bridge (overpass). Unfortunately, there is no traffic enforcer with enough zeal to enforce the anti-jaywalking…
NO PERMIT, NO BUSINESS IN a bid to level the playing field for the business sector, the Dagupan City government will no longer tolerate delinquent business establishments to continue operating if these cannot present current business and mayor’s permits each year. The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) here made certain of this…
LINGAYEN–Contrary to what it announced last week, the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) decided to suspend action on the proposed ordinance requiring business establishments operating in the province to provide separate comfort rooms (CRs) for lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders (LGBTs). In an interview after last week’s session, Board Member Alfie Bince,…
BALOLONG MURDER CASE LINGAYEN –Two more suspects were charged in the killing of Urbiztondo town mayor Ernesto Balolong Jr. and the death of two others last June 7. Cases have been filed against a certain Ramil Santos and Eduardo Nicolas, both natives of Malabon City, OIC-provincial police director PSSupt. Sterling…
URBIZTONDO—The new mayor here who succeeded slain Mayor Ernesto Balolong Jr. said the town has been plunged into a deep financial debt worth P60-million. Obligations include unpaid Government Service Insurance System premiums, P3 million; unpaid electric bills to Central Pangasinan Electric Cooperative, P7 million; several hundreds of thousands of pesos owed…
WAR VS. ILLEGAL DRUGS AFTER the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) regional office tagged two barangays in Dagupan “as seriously affected” by illegal drugs, the Dagupan City police station (DCPS) has considered that as a challenge. Barangay Bonuan Binloc and Bonuan Gueset remain in category one or “seriously affected by…
LINGAYEN—Leptospirosis has claimed two lives in Pangasinan, a farmer and a mechanic, from the towns of Manaoag and Calasiao respectively, the chief of the Provincial Health Office said. Dr. Anna de Guzman, provincial health officer, said Friday that the casualties from Manaoag and Calasiao died in May and July respectively. There were…
THE city agriculture office (CAO) has yet to schedule the demolition of three illegal fish pens standing in a 4.7-hectare portion of the river system here despite extended deadlines given the owners. Two of the illegal structures are located in barangay Salapingao and the other in Talaib-Carael, said Emma Molina,…
LINGAYEN, Pangasinan—Former fourth district board member Jeremy “Ming” Rosario has formally assumed his new position as the assistant provincial health officer for hospital management on Monday. Rosario, a doctor by profession specializing in anesthesiology, served as board member of the sixth and seventh Sangguniang Panlalawigan. He said that serving in…
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