CHRISTMAS AT THE CAPITOL—The capitol plaza in Lingayen draws crowds at night with its giant Christmas tree set up for the duration of the yuletide season. It was illuminated in a lighting ceremony Thursday night spearheaded by Governor Amado Espino Jr. and graced by President Benigno Aquino III’s cousin Bam…
DELAYED POLICE RESPONSE HIT THE Dagupan police remain clueless as to the identities of the armed men who staged a broad daylight robbery on a jewelry store and pawnshop on busy A.B. Fernandez Avenue at about 9:11 a.m. on Nov. 10. But Senior Superintendent Mariano Verzosa, officer-in-charge of the Pangasinan…
MANAOAG–Shortly after the broad daylight heist on a jewelry store in Dagupan last November 10, Local Government Units (LGUs) in Pangasinan are now scrambling to pass ordinance own ordinances making it mandatory for commercial establishments to install closed circuit television (CCTV) cameras. Senior Board Member Jeremy Agerico Rosario of the…
MAYOR Jose “Joe” Esteves of Milpitas in California, a Dagupeño, will be a balikbayan soon. “I am always homesick – I like to see my kabaleyan.I like to smell the air and feel the place where I lived for 30 plus years,” Esteves said in an e-mail interview. The five-time…
MILD RESHUFFLE A NEW city election officer has been assigned in Dagupan following what the provincial Commission on Elections (Comelec) calls a “mild reshuffle”. Provincial Elections Supervisor Marino Salas said Atty. Ericson Oganiza, municipal election officer of Lingayen, replaces Election Officer Remarque Ravanzo who in turn has been moved to…
THE political tempest is brewing hot. Two ‘mistahs’ or classmates of Governor Amado Espino Jr. in the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) fired their first political salvo by denouncing the 300 percent increase in the real property assessment effected under his administration. Retired Generals Arturo Lomibao and Marcelo Navarro Jr. said…
RECORDS DON’T LIE — Above Punchphoto picture is the close-up shot of a portion of page 76 of the Annual Investment Plan submitted by the Local Development Council that shows “1.1. Public markets, Centromart,” under the column ‘Project/Program/Activity Description’ for which P10 million as ‘Capital Outlay’ was allocated for the…
BSL LEADS BIDS COMMITTEE AS far as the Dagupan City Hall is concerned, there is no more road block to the controversial sale of the former MC Adore Hotel and possibly the city’s property in Barangay Talibaew, Calasiao. Mayor Benjamin Lim has signed Executive Order No. 119, Series of 2012…
NO FLYING VOTERS THE number of voters in Dagupan reached 99,327 as of the close of registration last October 31, according to City Election Officer Remarque Ravanzo who maintained there were no flying voters registered in the city. He clarified, however, that the 4,711 new registrants with 660 transferees are…
NEATLY TIED UP?—The MC Adore building, which the Lim administration is keen on selling at a low minimum bid price, appears resigned awaiting its fate amid dire warnings while the Centromart, a private establishment owned by Mayor Benjamin Lim just a stone’s throw from the building, buzzes with activity anticipating…
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