NEW DAGUPAN CITY HALL THE search for a relocation site for the Dagupan City Hall cannot wait. The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), anticipating the approval of the revised Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP), approved a resolution authorizing Mayor Belen Fernandez to start the search look for a lot along the Pantal-Lucao…
LINGAYEN—It is possible for local government units to have a bigger budget than what the Internal Revenue Allotment schedules. This proposition was advanced by former Senator Panfilo ‘Ping’ Lacson during his press conference at the Hotel Consuelo, after he had a dialogue with Lingayen residents last week. Describing it as his…
Lacson sees P300-M for each LGU
BINMALEY– A special election will be held on or before June 5 to finally settle the leadership row in the town’s Liga ng mga Barangay (LB). This was announced by LB provincial federation president Amado Espino III. According to Espino, the LB National Executive Board has issued a resolution directing the LB…
Binmaley Liga special election this week
RLUC Oks PLAN AFTER the multi-agency Regional Land Use Committee of Region 1 approved on May 22 the revised Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) of Dagupan, some 200 city residents of Dagupan trooped to the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) during the fifth public hearing last Tuesday carrying placards demanding the immediate approval of the proposed Revised Comprehensive…
Early SP approval of CLUP sought
LINGAYEN– The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) Committee on Good Government and Accountability of Public Officers, Justice, and Human Rights has yet to decide whether it can hear the administrative complaint filed by Mayor Ricardo Camacho against Sangguniang Bayan (SB) members. Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr., chairman of the two committees, said…
SP to set hearing on Bayambang case
THE undermanned Bureau of Fire Protection in Dagupan city made one request to the public – no prank calls please. SFO2 Dan Ortega said despite efforts to tell the public to be responsible in reporting fire occurrences, prank calls still continue and most are made before the break of dawn….
Stop the prank calls, please –Bureau of Fire
DESPITE DRY SPELL HERE’S a bit of good and reassuring news after all the reports of damage to agriculture caused by exceedingly high temperature the past weeks. As of last Wednesday, the water level elevation at the San Roque Dam in San Manuel remained high at 238.70 meters above sea…
Water level in San Roque Dam remains high
ANOTHER POTENTIAL USE? BOLINAO—After tapping chicken and pig manure for renewable energy, an Italian company is eyeing bangus (milkfish) wastes to be converted into biogas. Alaminos City Mayor Arthur Celeste said in a forum here Tuesday about proper management of fish pens and fish cages for sustainable bangus industry in western…
Bangus waste as source for biogas
ALAMINOS CITY— The world-famous Hundred Islands National Park (HINP) has arrived as a major tourist destination. It is now a regular destination for foreign cruise programs. Last week, for the seventh time, another foreign cruise ship docked here and its passengers and crew toured the Islands. MS Caledonian Sky, a…
Another foreign cruise ship docks at Hundred Islands
TRANSMISSION service provider and power grid operator NGCP recently turned-over a two-classroom building in Cablong Elementary School in Sta. Barbara. Completed just in time for the opening of classes in June, the classrooms will accommodate two sections of kindergarten and Grade 6. Another one-classroom building in Balingeo Elementary School, Sta….