“WIN-WIN” SOLUTION PROPOSED SIXTH District Provincial Board Member Ranjit Ramos Shahani has proposed what he called a “win-win solution” to the ongoing controversy in the construction of a golf course in the eco-tourism zone in Lingayen. In a privilege speech before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan last February 21, Shahani said the planned 18-hole…
LNU VS. DAGUPAN TWO months into the trial, the Lyceum Northwestern University, represented by its president Atty. Gonzalo Duque, has asked the court to decide on the case it filed against the Dagupan City government, Mayor Benjamin Lim, and City Treasurer Romelita Alcantara over the collection of business taxes. The…
THE hearing on the 2012 budget at the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) was stalled anew as City Administrator Vladimir Mata again failed to attend upon the council’s invitation. Only the other three members of the Local Finance Committee (LFC) – City Treasurer Romelita Alcantara, City Budget Officer Ildefonso Calimlim and City…
AIMING HIGH—No, the gentlemen looking sleek in their Barong Tagalog and dark pants are not members of the Bayanihan Dance troupe acknowledging cheers from the audience but the province’s political leaders led by Gov. Amado Espino (5th from right) and Vice Gov. Jose Ferdinand Calimlim (4th from right) demonstrating to the audience…
“TODAY, NO. 5, TOMORROW, NO. 1 LINGAYEN—”Today, we are only number 5. But tomorrow, we will be number 1″. This is the promise and battlecry that Governor Amado Espino Jr. launched in his State of the Province Address (SOPA) before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on February 13 as he rallied Pangasineneses…
BEFORE THE SOPA — Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. (3rd from right) is joined by the members of the provincial board in a ceremonial walkthrough prior to the report on the state of the province last February 13 at the Capitol Plaza in Lingayen. The Governor thanked the Sangguniang Panlalawigan…
COA MEMO TO LIM ADMINISTRATION THE Dagupan City government spent P26.5 million for various development projects by in 2011, funded from the city’s Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA), without any legal basis, the Commission on Audit (COA) reported.
LEAVE a facility idle and it will surely go in the way of decay. That is what is beginning to happen to the P100 million Seafood Processing Plant in Dagupan, built through a grant from the South Korean government, whose operations have been suspended since October 7 last year after…
LINGAYEN— Finally, a constructive dialogue on the controversial eco-tourism project of the Espino administration was held. It took Archbishop Socrates Villegas of the Dagupan-Lingayen archdiocese to act as the moderator and to appeal to opposing panels in the development of the eco-tourism project covering four barangays in the capital town…
TSUNAMI HILL BLUEPRINT—Members of the Sangguniang Panglunsod led by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez (with microphone) examine the blueprint of the location of the proposed Tsunami Hill in the island barangay of Pugaro being presented by Architect Joji de Vera of the City Planning and Development Office and City Administrator Vladimir Mata….
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