IN response to the call of Mayor Benjamin S. Lim for a more serious and aggressive campaign against illegal drugs in their respective communities, Barangay Chairman Pedro Gonzales of Bonuan Binloc showed the police the way to catch one of the most notorious drug dealers in his barangay last July…
CACHE OF FIREARMS–A member of the police raiding team examines one of the licensed 14 high-powered firearms found by lawmen at the residence of Mayor Ernesto Balolong of Urbiztondo during a raid on July 18. The police did not find any unlicensed firearm and instead were surprised to find that…
EMBATTLED Urbiztondo Mayor Ernesto Balolong said the Sangguniang Panglunsod (SP) may have committed abuse of power when it declared as null and void an ordinance enacted by his town’s Sangguniang Bayan (SB) authorizing him to negotiate a P54 million loan with the Philippine National Bank (PNB).
NEW MAJORITY EMERGES THE tables have been turned at the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) in Dagupan. Backed by nine members, the SP effected a top-to-bottom reorganization on Wednesday, two days after the July 9 regular session, which put the once vaunted majority into the minority. The reorganization was brought on by…
LONE VOICE—Councilor Alipio Serafin Fernandez (at the podium) declares his vehement objection to the new set of Comprehensive Rules and Procedures of the Sangguniang Panlungsod in a privilege speech ahead of the reorganization of the body during a special session Wednesday, warning that its implementation would make the chamber subservient to the…
VICE Mayor Belen Fernandez said that the new comprehensive set of internal rules and procedures adopted by the new majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) was not simply directed against her but at the heart of transparency and good governance. She said the new set of internal rules and procedures…
REPORTING FOR DUTY–-Incoming officer-in-charge of the Provincial Police Office, Senior Supt. Mariano Luis “Sonny” Verzosa, Jr. (right), pays a courtesy call on Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. (left) last July 11. Verzosa will officially assume his new post on July 16. (PIO Photo) Back to Homepage
ALL’S well that ends well in a compromise, so it seems, for Governor Amado Espino Jr. and Police Senior Superintendent Mariano Luis Verzosa Jr., chief of intelligence of the Police Regional Office 1 who will assume as provincial police chief starting July 16, albeit on an officer-in-charge capacity. This was disclosed…
LINGAYEN– A proposed provincial ordinance regulating men-riding-in-tandem on motorcycles will soon be passed by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP), according to the law’s author, Sixth District Board Member Alfonso Bince Jr. This developed as the Land Transportation Office (LTO) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) manifested their full support to the…
LINGAYEN–The mayor of Urbiztondo is in hot water for withdrawing part of a P55 million loan for the municipality from the Philippine National Bank (PNB) prior to the approval by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP’s) of the ordinance on the loan approved by the municipal council. Making the situation worse for…
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