WHERE is the P3.5 million released since April this year intended to fund the cleaning of drainage canals, esteros and other possible breeding place of mosquitoes in Dagupan? Who has the money?

LINGAYEN–Citing statistics, the police refuted the perception in the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (SP) that there is an alarming increase in the number of crimes, particularly shooting incidents in the province.

REGIONAL Trial Court Judge Emma Torio has started hearing the civil case filed against the city government by University of Luzon (UL) over the assessment and payment of business taxes.

THE stage is finally set for a series of suits and counter-suits on the business tax issue after acting city legal officer Roy Laforteza affirmed the city’s refusal to meet a demand by a university for refund of taxes it paid in the past.

THIRD District Rep. Ma. Rachel Arenas has exposed what she called the racket of “items for sale” in the Department of Education (DepEd).

ILLEGAL EXACTION? BRING it on! This was the terse reply of Mayor Benjamin Lim to the threat of a lawsuit by private schools based in Dagupan even as latter demanded that the city government refunds the business tax they have paid in previous years

LAWYER Gonzalo Duque, president of Lyceum-Northwestern University (LNU), said the school is now determined to take legal action after Mayor Benjamin Lim indicated he would let the court decide whether private schools in Dagupan are exempted or not from paying business taxes.

LINGAYEN–While the number of dengue cases in Pangasinan is continuously rising, so far at 1,214 with 10 deaths, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Ma. Ana de Guzman is confident that there is still no need to declare an outbreak in any part of the province.

UNPERTURBED by reluctant support from the city council, Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim is pursuing the plan to construct a Dagupan hospital inside a school compound.

LINGAYEN—The ax finally fell on the assistant provincial jail warden and 14 jail guards of the Provincial Jail. They were suspended in three separate decisions handed down by Governor Amado Espino Jr. based on the investigation conducted by Provincial Legal Officer Geraldine Baniqued.