WHILE some non-government organizations, along with people’s organizations and barangays, are under fire for millions of pesos in unliquidated “financial assistance” released in the past three years, some civic groups are prompting Mayor Belen Fernandez to bring back Dagupan’s status as a first class city. The call was made by…
LINGAYEN–After four months of evaluation, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has finally ruled and dismissed the petition for disqualification against 2nd District Rep. Leopoldo Bataoil and his younger brother, Councilor Ramon Bataoil. The case was filed by Richard Beil Ortega. The instant petition for disqualification against Cong. Bataoil was dismissed…
EVEN when the ‘financial assistance” funds distributed to various groups by the Dagupan City government under former Mayor Benjamin Lim are finally liquidated, there remains a more basic legal issue: Were the disbursements legal in the first place? A city official who asked not be identified pointed out that by…
SUAL–From 400 fish cages installed off the coast here before the May elections, the number of structures has now almost doubled to 778. And all these in a supposed 10-hectare mariculture area for only about 72 fish cages designated by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR).
TRASH FOR CASH—Students in Sto. Tomas towns carry bags of trash to be surrendered to the municipal government in exchange for cash or other incentives such as school supplies under the newly-launched Trash Savers Program. (Punchphoto by Cesar Ramirez) Back to Homepage
RECYCLED WATES FOR XMAS DECOR STO.TOMAS—The innovative idea introduced by this town to create high awareness for environmental protection and inculcate the importance of the values of saving and teamwork may yet set a model for other towns to follow. The town’s residents are agog with excitement over the competition for…
ACCOUNTABILITY SOUGHT FOR P105-M THERE may have been no ghost organizations that received financial assistance from the Dagupan City government but most of the non-government organizations, people’s organizations and barangays did not liquidate the funds to explain where the people’s monies were spent. Official accounting records show that the biggest…
IF THERE were no hitches in their operational plans, Dagupan’s rivers are expected to be cleared of illegal fish pens by today, September 15. This was the projection as Task Force Bantay Ilog after it vowed last Monday to get the job done in a week’s time. City Agriculturist Emma…
AUDITOR’S RECOMMENDATION PAST and present officials of Dagupan could go to jail for allowing current appropriations to pay for the previous year’s obligations, a practice that became standard under the administration of former Mayor Benjamin Lim. City Auditor Virgilio Quinto, in an Audit Observation Memorandum, recommended the filing of administrative and criminal cases against the persons involved in…
ANDA—A P50,000 reward money has been put up by the municipal government here for information that would lead to the arrest of the still unidentified suspect or suspects behind the brutal murder of a 16-year old student at her home in Barangay Awag here. The killing of Ma. Julie Carlit,…
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