Let’s celebrate! By Johanne Margarette R. Macob IN a few days, 2014’s out and 2015 is in. A lot has happened in this year, both in the local and national scene- politics, showbiz, sports, business, name it. Good news, bad news, and the neutrals. I’m sure one of these days,…
WHAT HAPPENED TO DUE PROCESS? —In our last issue, the banner story was on the dismissal from service of Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan and Provincial Housing and Urban Development Officer Engr. Alvin Bigay. For this, they were meted the accessory penalties of cancellation of eligibility, forfeiture of retirement benefits and perpetual…
NO PORK BARREL FOR COUNCILORS WHILE bracing herself to run the city government with a reenacted budget after the members the Sanggunian Panlungsod failed to approve the proposed 2015 budget, Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez said she is still hopeful the councilors will be moved to approve it early next month….
LINGAYEN– Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan described as “very harsh and sweeping indictment” the order of the Office of the Omnbudsman dismissing him and Alvin Bigay, provincial housing and urban development officer. “This is a sad development considering that the motion for reconsideration of the resolution which we filed remains pending…
PREVENTIVE MEASURE LINGAYEN– Here we go again! The Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) started sealing some 2,000 muzzles of short and long firearms with masking tape last week to help ensure that no police personnel will be involved in any indiscriminate firing of their guns during the holiday season preceding…
VIDEO RECORDED INACTION ROSALES— When the Pangasinan Provincial Police Office (PPPO) ordered higher police visibility in all towns, three policemen in this town took that order literally to heart – simply to be visible and do nothing else. For simply being visible but failing to arrest a politician’s relative for…
TARGET: ZERO-CASUALTY STO. TOMAS—What does a quiet town like Sto. Tomas do to ensure that it maintains a record zero-casualty during the holidays until New Year? It bans the sale and lighting of firecrackers! The only town in the province to do so. The only other local government unit in…
THE coastal waters of Bolinao, Anda, Alaminos City and Wawa in Bani are still positive for paralytic shellfish poison that is beyond the regulatory limit based on laboratory results, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) said. This was contained in Shellfish Bulletin No. 32, dated Dec. 18, 2014…
WELCOME BALIKBAYANS—-Boatmen stand on their boats to welcome the balikbayans riding the ‘PHILIPPINES’ Island Tour platform boat, one of the boats donated by multinational companies to the city government, as it passed through Calmay River, during the formal launch of the Dagupan Island Tours last week in honor of the…
AFTER four months of inactivity, the dredging of the shallow Calmay River here has resumed after the three dredging machines deployed in Dagupan by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) received their P3 million fuel allocation. In an interview, Mayor Belen Fernandez expressed confidence that dredging will continue for a longer period now without interruption after the…
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