SCHOLARSHIP FUND, SOURCE OF CORRUPTION THERE were 25 dummy scholars, 31 flying scholars and 190 scholars with incomplete grades so far discovered from among some 2,500 scholars registered by the past city administration for the city’s scholarship program. This was confirmed by Mayor Belen Fernandez during her meeting with the…

UNPARLIAMENTARY CONDUCT COUNCILORS of Dagupan City figured in a shouting match and nearly came into blows during a one-minute recess declared by Vice Mayor and presiding officer Bryan Kua to allow for councilors to cool down following a shouting match about the implementation of the Dagupan City Scholarship Program l during…

P15K PENALTY PLUS IMPOUNDING OF UNITS THE regional office of the Land Transportation Franchise and Regulatory Board confirmed that only 1,500 public utility vehicles in Region I secured copies of the updated fare matrix that give them authority to implement the fare hike starting October 3. According to Atty. Anabel…

DAGUPAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND MESS FIFTEEN ‘flying’ or non-resident scholars and eight ‘ghost’ scholars of the past Lim administration were initially discovered by the new Dagupan City Scholarship Committee chaired by Mayor Belen Fernandez in its investigation of unqualified scholars so far from 14 of the 31 barangays of Dagupan City…

ONLY 5 HECTARES CAN BE RETAINED IN AWAI LAND ONLY five hectares of the more than 29 hectare property located in Barangays Awai and Labney (Bolo), San Jacinto, bought by Dagupan City in April 2002 for P16 million will  be retained by the city, with the rest of the property…

DAGUPAN SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM THE registration of scholars who are not residents in the city and “ghost scholars” with fake names by the past Dagupan City administration cost the city government an estimated P8 million which otherwise could have been granted to bona fide scholars from Dagupan. This was revealed by…

PERMITS ISSUED BY LIM ADMINISTRATION THE huge illegal fish pens that were removed and demolished painstakingly over a four- year period by then Mayor Belen Fernandez before 2019 were restored during the Brian Lim administration and fully operating in violation of the city’s fishery code that allows only fish cages,…

DISCOVERY OF P2.5-B WORTH OF SHABU THE police and the barangays should work more closely to prevent another operation of the P2.5 billion worth of shabu weighing 360 kilograms being distributed by a drug  syndicate in Pangasinan. The raid and seizure in Pozorrubio was a lesson learned, said P/Colonel Jeff…

CITY WANTS CUNA TO RETURN P16-M PAYMENT THE Dagupan City government has lost all its claims to the 29,892-hectare landholding in Barangay Awai in San Jacinto town despite its payment of P16,120,000 to seller Jose Mariano Cuna on April 11, 2002, ostensibly for the construction of a sanitary landfill for…

THE Office of the Provincial Prosecutors filed charges against four suspects arrested in the P2.5 billion drug buy-bust in Pozorrubio town on August 12 before the Regional Trial Court (RTC), Branch 46 in Urdaneta City, in a sworn complaint filed by the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA). Violations of Sections…