LET’S GO!—LP standard bearer Mar Roxas shows his take-charge discipline by taking the driver’s seat to rush to CSI Stadia, with Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez in tow, where he was scheduled to meet with members of Tricycle Operators and Drivers’ Associations in the city. (Screengrab from Mayor Belen’s Facebook) Back to Homepage
CITIZEN’S ARREST URDANETA CITY— While other barangay officials in Pangasinan conveniently keep their Barangay Anti Drugs Abuse Council inactive to allow drug syndicates to operate freely in their communities, the barangay officials of this city are showing the way, and are making a difference. Recently, Urdaneta Barangay Chairman Arsenio Lapena…
IT is not for the Department of Interior and Local Government but for the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to file a case of negligence of duty against Barangay Binloc Chairman Pedro Gonzales and other barangay chairmen similarly situated, on account of the his failure to report the operation of…
WHO would have known in town that Bani mayor’s close-in bodyguard since 2013 was in fact the No. 5 most wanted man of Ilocos Norte? No one, not even Mayor Mayor Gwen Palafox-Yamamoto, until her bodyguard figured in a minor vehicular accident and the police was confronted with the information…
TOBACCO EXCISE TAX SHARE LINGAYEN–The reported misuse of the Tobacco Excise Tax in the 5th District of Pangasinan as claimed by a farmers’ group will finally be investigated by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP). This became evident after Vice Governor Jose Ferdinand Calimlim, SP presiding officer, referred the Oct. 26, 2015…
AS “KUYA NG BAYAN” LP presidential candidate Mar Roxas could not have asked for more after his “Three “Urdujas” (4th District Rep. Gina de Venecia,, 3rd District Rep. Baby Arenas and 6th Distric Rep. Marlyn Agabas) came out in full force to demonstrate their full support for him in Pangasinan….
IT’S LONG OVERDUE FINALLY, the Dagupan City government can take a “no-compromise” stand with operators of fish pens after the city council passed the ordinance prohibiting the establishment of fish pens in any river or water way in Dagupan. The ordinance, authored by Councilor Jeslito Seen, amended certain sections of…
SOME 20 illegal fish pens stocked with milkfish were destroyed by Typhoon “Lando” and were no longer be allowed to be repaired, according to Maximo Solis, head of Task Force Bantay Ilog in Dagupan City. He said the owners of these structures voluntarily removed their contraptions with the aid of…
LANDO’S WRATH IN the aftermath of Typhoon Lando’s onslaught, the Dagupan City government reported a zero-casualty but estimated that damages to government facilities, schools and roads reached P63.4 million and at least P38 million in agriculture and fisheries. The damages to fisheries totaling P28.3 million affected 515 fisher folks while…
LINGAYEN–The Pangasinan provincial government is all set to rehabilitate damaged public infrastructures and crops wrought by Typhoon “Lando” that battered the province from October 18 to 21. Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr. ordered to jumpstart the rehabilitation after receiving the assessment of damages by concerned offices and agencies that determined the…
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