MC ADORE CIVIL CASE DAGUPAN Mayor Benjamin S. Lim may have to hold off any further move in connection with the sale of the MC Adore property now that he and his co-respondents have been subpoenaed by the court in connection with the Special Civil Case on the matter filed…
IT’S not fair. This is how Binmaley officials feel about the ruling slapped on the municipality by the Commission on Audit (COA) that local government funds cannot be used for fiesta-related activities In a talk to newsmen, Vice Mayor Pedro Merrera Jr. asked why the same policy does not appear…
ALARMED by media reports that her own barangay, Bonuan Binloc, is among the hubs of illegal drug trade in Pangasinan, Fourth District Rep. Gina de Venecia called on both the Philippine National Police and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) to undertake immediate and effective action on the matter. De…
WHAT do the revered late Interior and Local Government Secretary Jesse M. Robredo and Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin S. Lim could possibly have in common? According to the mayor, Robredo has Chinese roots and whose name in Mandarin is Lin Bingzhi. This was confirmed by the Lim Family Association of…
OLD GLORY—Casa Real, which served as the first seat of provincial government and now sandwiched between the Lingayen town Hall and the Provincial Jail, will soon be restored back to its old glory fitting for a national historical landmark after the Sangguniang Panlalawigan approved a resolution endorsing its restoration. (Punchphoto…
LINGAYEN–The Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) has endorsed the restoration of the Casa Real, a Spanish-era building that served as the first provincial seat of government. The provincial board, however, wants funding for the renovation work to come from the national government through Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority under the Department…
“JUETENG FREE PANGASINAN” LINGAYEN— NO kidding! This sums up the reaction of Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz and other church leaders in the province who appeared amused as they laughed at the statements of Sr. Supt. Mariano Luis Verzosa, officer-in-charge police provincial director, that Pangasinan is now jueteng-free. It’s not…
LINGAYEN—Pangasinan is forging a sisterhood agreement with Guam to foster closer economic and cultural ties. Governor Amado Espino Jr. is leading a provincial government team to Guam on September 21 to sign the tie-up. Espino said the sisterhood will build “closer ties in terms of business development, strong economic relationship,…
PUNCH’S FIRST ML ISSUE—Above is the file photo of The PUNCH’s October 22, 1972 issue, the first issue and newspaper allowed by the military to continue publishing in the province after martial law was declared on September 21, 1972. THE PUNCH managed to publish and distribute secretly 1,000 copies of…
APPRAISED VALUE THE appraisal committee created by Dagupan Mayor Benjamin S. Lim for the MC Adore land building has appraised the property to be worth only P100 million. Based on the appraisal report submitted to Lim, a copy of which was obtained by the PUNCH last Tuesday, the committee estimates…
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