THE Bids and Awards Committee (BAC) with a new set of members appointed by Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez has cancelled two major projects initiated by the past city administration under former Mayor Benjamin Lim, the Tsunami Hill in Barangay Pugaro and the Maternal Child Care and Lying-in Clinic on the…
FIVE mayors of the 4th District, along with Rep. Gina de Venecia, are studying the option to construct, without cost to the local governments, an Integrated Solid Waste Facility called “Waste 2 Worth” that will convert wastes into electricity. The five mayors are Belen Fernandez of Dagupan, Bona Fe De…
“CORRECTION, PLEASE!” CONTRARY to what was earlier reported by the Dagupan City Budget Officer that there is only P12 million in the city coffer left by the Lim administration to run the city in the next six months, the new administration of Mayor Belen Fernandez has actually only P8.5 million cash on hand…
WHILE the controversial Maternal and Children and Lying in Clinic planned by former Mayor Benjamin Lim never took off the ground, some P2.5 million was already paid by the city to its chosen contractor, A.S.S. Construction Co. Records show the city paid the sum to the contractor after a public bidding…
NEXT CBCP PRESIDENT LINGAYEN–The election of Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas as president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) last July 7 was celebrated by Pangasinan as another source of pride for the province. Gov. Amado Espino Jr. said Villegas’ election will “surely benefit the people of the…
8-10 DISTRICTS MULLED LINGAYEN—The Sangguniang Panlalawigan is reviving the move for the redistricting of the province from the existing six to eight given the projected population of 2,892,873 by year 2013. Resolution No. 4-2013 was approved last week by the provincial board providing for the creation of an ad hoc…
BINMALEY—It appears that the newly assumed mayor here has something in common with Dagupan’s Mayor Belen Fernandez: an almost empty coffer. Mayor Simplicio Rosario, in his first two weeks in office, was shocked to find that the town’s funds for the year was almost entirely spent by the administration of…
AFTER he was recently publicly rebuked for the unabated illegal drug trading in his barangay, city hall is finally set to throw the books at Barangay Binloc Chairman Pedro Gonzales but this time for quarrying illegally in Sitio Korea in Bonuan Binloc last July 10. Newly designated City Legal Officer George…
MC ADORE SIDE AGREEMENT? COULD the city be unknowingly shouldering the electric consumption of the controversial newly-opened bank at the former MC Adore Hotel? Mayor Belen Fernandez said she has asked her incoming legal officer, whom she did not name, to look into possible legal actions against City State Savings…
Mayor Belen Fernandez has created Task Force Bantay Ilog to guard and monitor the city’s rivers 24/7 as the demolition of illegal fish pens in Dagupan started last week. City Agriculture Officer Emma Molina, tasked to oversee the demolition, said the creation of the task force, headed by Ronnie Cayabyab, president…
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