LINGAYEN—Follow the Local Government Code. This was the order given by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) to the Pangasinan State University on scholarship grants for children of incumbent barangay officials following complaints lodged by supposed beneficiaries. Sec. 393, Paragraph B, No. 4 of the Local Government Code provides that one of…
OVERSTOCKING, OVERFEEDING IT seems some fishpond operators never learn. They continue to defy established parameters in a bid to double profits. The fishkill in a two-hectare fishpond in Barangay Tambac in Dagupan last Thursday that killed 25,000 milkfish was due to overstocking and overfeeding, not from the natural phenomenon neap…
TWO BELENS–Vice Mayor Belen Tan Fernandez (left) and 66-year old Belen Tamondong Fernandez field questions from the media after the latter appeared at the City Election Office to submit her affidavit withdrawing her candidacy for mayor. City Election Officer Remarque Ravanzo (right) received the affidavit in the afternoon of Oct. 6….
DIRTY TRICK FOILED “I WAS fooled.” This was part of the statement made by a namesake of Vice Mayor Belen T. Fernandez, who is running for mayor of Dagupan, when she withdrew her candidacy a day after unwittingly filing a certificate of candidacy (COC), also for mayor. Sixty six-year old…
NEIGHBORS and relatives could not believe their eyes when they saw on television Belen Tamondong Fernandez, a namesake of the vice mayor of Dagupan City, filing her certificate of candidacy (COC) for mayor. “That was a joke!” was the common reaction of people from Sitio Sabangan Sur in Bonuan Gueset…
IT will be a relatively easy ride for 22 congressional and local government candidates as they run unopposed in the May 2013 election. Records of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) show two congresswomen, two board members, five mayors, four vice mayors and eight councilors in one town are the lone…
THE second complaint for violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act filed against Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim, with City Administrator Vladimir Mata as his co-respondent, before the Office of the Ombudsman is now on course after the anti-graft body docketed it as case OMB-L-C-0495 AT OMB-L-A-0435. The complaint was…
ANTI-CYBERCRIME ACT JOURNALISTS and netizens in Pangasinan can look forward to a new deal in confronting the risks to their daily practice. Senate Minority Leader Alan Peter S. Cayetano recently filed three bills seeking to amend major provisions in the controversial Cybercrime Act and to decriminalize libel and defamation in…
FOR VIDEO GAME TIME A BOY, claiming to be 12 years old, arrested by the police in Dagupan in a buy-bust operation last Wednesday, admitted he agreed to act as a courier of illegal drugs to get extended hours of playing in a computer game shop. The suspect, Ibrahim Macalangan…
ILLEGAL DRUG TRADE FIVE barangays in Dagupan have been tagged by the local police as its “areas of immediate concern” against illegal drugs. Superintendent Romeo Caramat Jr., chief of police of Dagupan City, said the barangays of Pantal, Bonuan Binloc, Bonuan Gueset, Barangay II, and Barangay III are now under…
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