IN CASH-STRAPPED DAGUPAN DAGUPEÑOS should expect an austere fiesta celebration in December as the incoming administration of Mayor-elect Belen Fernandez struggles to manage the city’s deficient finances. Fernandez, currently on an acting-mayor capacity, said in a press conference last week that the outgoing administration of Mayor Benjamin Lim spent too…
BRIDGE OF BURDEN—The delayed completion of the rehabilitation of the 100-meter Villamil Bridge in Calasiao takes its toll on the town’s businesses as well as commuters and pedestrians. The 50-year old bridge, closed in January this year, is the main link between central Pangasinan and the commercial center of Dagupan…
BEING a catch basin, the coastal province of Pangasinan is considered the most flood-prone in Region 1, which is why it is being closely monitored by the Office of Civil Defense (OCD). OCD Director Melchito Castro, also the chairperson of the Regional Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (RDRRMC), made this…
INDEPENDENCE DAY GUEST—Secretary Antonio Villar Jr., chairman of the Dangerous Drugs Board (left), gets a warm handshake and plaque of appreciation from Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez, mayor-elect of Dagupan, for gracing the 115th Independence Day celebration in the city as guest of honor and speaker last June 12. At right…
78 DRUG-AFFECTED BARANGAYS IN PANGASINAN DAGUPAN City may no longer simply be notorious for being a hub for illegal drug trading, but also home to a drug laboratory and or a major drug financier. Secretary Antonio Villar Jr., chairman of the Dangerous Drugs Board (DDB), said Barangay Bonuan Binloc, tagged…
AUGUST DEADLINE OPERATORS of illegal fishpens that have once again proliferated in the rivers of Dagupan City have been given until the end of August to dismantle their structures “or else”. Acting Mayor Belen Fernandez, also the mayor-elect, met with the illegal fishpen owners last Tuesday and gave them the deadline…
LINGAYEN—Senior Superintendent Marlou Chan, the provincial police director, has been declared persona non grata by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) and Pangasinan officials are prepared to bring the matter all the way to President Benigno Aquino III if he remains adamant on staying at his post. The previous week, the SP…
LINGAYEN—Is Senior Superintendent Marlou Chan, police provincial director, ready to for an out-of-court settlement with Gov. Amado Espino Jr. and the provincial government regarding their strong call for his ouster? It appears so as Chan announced late last week that he wants to meet Espino’s representative, Acting Governor Jose Ferdinand…
TRUE INDEPENDENCE LINGAYEN– The provincial government of Pangasinan, along with other provincial government agencies, celebrated the 115th Philippine Independence Day with emphasis on the goal of freeing the people from poverty. “Independence as we define it is our continuing struggle against poverty,” said Provincial Administrator Rafael Baraan as he cited…
MORE illegal disbursements for touted “value engineering” projects of the outgoing Lim administration have been uncovered at city hall as Acting-Mayor Belen Fernandez scrambles to look for funds to pay mounting city obligations and claims by creditors. Foremost of these is a two-storey building at the vicinity of the Dagupan…
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