THE Dagupan City ordinance that was earlier branded as downright illegal and therefore stupid was recently upheld to be legal. The Judge Florentino Dumlao Jr. of Regional Trial Court (RTC) Branch 42 in Dagupan ruled that the ordinance enacted by Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) requiring motorcycle riders and their backriders to…
OVER ALLEGED BLACK SAND MINING “WE did not violate any law.” This was repeatedly asserted by Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan, who finally broke his silence over his indictment by the Office of the Ombudsman over the alleged extraction of black sand along the seashore in Lingayen. “That came as a complete surprise…
THE Dagupan City government has sent demand letters to non-government organizations, civic clubs, sectoral groups and some individuals to liquidate the financial assistance granted them by the city government for the period 2010-2013. The rules of the Commission on Audit mandate liquidation and non-compliance by recipients of the funds will…
THE “MISSING” BLACK SAND — Members of the local media move around the black sand stockpiled in Barangay Malimpuec in Lingayen adjacent to the aborted construction of the 18-hole golf course at the eco-tourism zone after they were led to the site by Vicente Oliquino, one of the original complainants, to…
BASIS FOR INDICTMENT QUESTIONED LINGAYEN—Five days after the Office of the Ombudsman announced that it had indicted Gov. Amado Espino Jr. Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan and 13 others for alleged illegal mining of black sand in this town, the complainant led local newsmen to the site where the stockpile of…
ANNULMENT OF MC ADORE SALE THE Regional Trial Court (RTC) rebuffed AMB ALC Holdings and Management Corporation when it denied its prayer for the dismissal of a civil case for the annulment of sale and reconveyance and damages filed against it. The civil case filed by Leo Angeles, a taxpayer…
TO THE RESCUE — Barangay Pangascasan volunteers rush to the shoreline adjacent to the Sual Power Plant to help clear any trace of oil spill in the area only to find out there was not much to do but to merely to clean the area when told that the oil…
SUAL— TeaM Energy, which manages and operates the Sual coal-fired power plant, vowed to fully cooperate with government authorities investigating the oil leak that happened dawn Monday. In an interview with Froilan Gregory Romualdez III, head of External Affairs and spokesman of TeaM Energy Corporation, he said that as of October 29 and…
SITIO ALING RAIDED IT was the second police raid long time coming in Sitio Aling in Barangay Pantal, a known notorious hotbed for illegal drugs distribution. The search and seize operations that yielded 87 sachets of shabu were conducted by joint operations of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA), Dagupan…
A NEW WHO BENCHMARK –Dagupan City Mayor Belen T. Fernandez discusses her administration’s “Alagang Balon Dagupan for the Elderly” aided by a PowerPoint presentation before the 6th Global Conference of the Alliance of Healthy Cities sponsored by the World Health Organization on Oct. 30 at Crowne Plaza in Hong Kong. Her well-applauded presentation…
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