59 FISH PENS’ DEMOLITON SEEN THE Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) has cleared the way for the demolition of fish pens built on supposedly private properties that had been eroded and became part of the river system CENRO officer-in-charge Raymundo Gayo said the law clearly provides that if a private…
THE defeated mayoralty candidate of the Liberal Party in Balungao town was shot while traversing the barangay road in Nancayasan, Urdaneta City last November 23 and was able to identify one of his attackers before he died in a hospital. Hermingildo “Atet” Marzan, 61, from Barangay San Leon, Balungao succumbed…
URBIZTONDO—This town’s mayor, Ernesto Balolong Jr., has been arrested after his house and other properties were raided by authorities in connection with the killing of former Lingayen Vice Mayor Ramon Arcinue and his wife, Zorahayda, and several other unsolved murders. Joint elements of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) in…
TOP ILLEGAL DRUG FIGHTERS—Secretary Antonio Villar Jr., chairman of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB), is flanked by Dagupan City Mayor Belen Fernandez and the city police chief, Superintendent Christopher Abrahano who were both cited by the DDB for their initiatives and support in the campaign against illegal drugs during the…
OUTSTANDING ANTI-DRUG FIGTHERS IN a city crawling with illegal drug dealers, the mayor and the police chief are hard at work in their campaign to fight the social menace. And the efforts of Dagupan Mayor Belen T. Fernandez and Superintendent Christopher Abrahano have not gone unnoticed by the Dangerous Drugs…
WHAT RULE?—The deliberation on the P15.9 million supplemental budget during the special session last Friday became heated Dagupan City when Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia (standing on the left podium) tried to block the passage by invoking a rule on voting that Councilor Jeslito Seen (standing on right podium) pointed out to…
AFTER WEEKS OF DELAY THE local government of Dagupan no longer has to worry about a possible disconnection of electric service and a delay in the payment of the salaries of some 400 emergency workers (EWs) and consultants after the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) finally approved the P15.9 million supplemental budget proposed…
BELEN ON MC ADORE THE city is open to talks but its demand for rebidding or renegotiation is non-negotiable. This was the gist of the message of Mayor Belen Fernandez to the AMB ALC Holdings and Management Inc., the company that bought the former MC Adore Hotel from the city…
MAYOR Belen T. Fernandez rebuffed Vice Mayor Brian Lim for suggesting during his interview by GMA7 that the city government does not have to prioritize the payment of overdue electric bills. “We have to pay our electric bills, otherwise we will suffer the embarrassment of having our electricity disconnected, the…
FIGHTING ILLEGAL DRUGS—Court of Appeals Associate Justice Mario Lopez (third from right) leads the ceremonial burning of confiscated illegal drugs and paraphernalia during the opening of the seminar on dangerous drugs law last November 20 at the back of Sison Auditorium in Lingayen. Lopez is joined by Governor Amado Espino…
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