FACING the prospect of being another white elephant in the city, the Department of Agriculture (DA) is being pressed to decide how the Seafood Processing Plant in Dagupan will be operated in the years ahead after its viability has been questioned and the city government expressed interest in regaining control.
“ILLEGAL EXACTION” BY CITY HALL ALL private schools in Dagupan decided to take a united stand against the city government for the latter’s alleged illegal collection of business taxes.
JAI-TENG IS BACK JAI-ALAI off-fronton betting stations are back since August 8 in at least three towns in Pangasinan: the capital Lingayen, and the eastern municipalities of Rosales and Tayug despite the standing order of the Department of Justice to ban its operation.
LINGAYEN–The provincial government may adopt belt-tightening measures next year due to the expected reduction of its share from the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) by at least P80 million.
MEAT vendors in Dagupan’s city market are crying foul against the city government’s sudden imposition of inspection fees starting July this year.
DROVES OF DENGUE PATIENTS—The crowded situation in government hospitals across the country is typified in this recent photo inside the Region 1 Medical Center (R1MC) in Dagupan where young patients, from all over Pangasinan have began crowding its pediatric ward as dengue rages in the province. (Punchphoto by Ray B….
LINGAYEN—More than 1,000 persons have been afflicted by dengue since the beginning of this year, but Governor Amado Espino Jr. said there is still no need to put the province under a state of calamity over this.
LIM’S NEW TACT A SANITARY landfill in every legislative district is being pushed by Dagupan Mayor Benjamin Lim as one of the solutions for the country’s garbage problem, which is particularly felt in urbanized areas such as his city.
SP TO STUDY MC ADORE “BARGAIN” OFFER LET’S not rush it. This was the reaction of Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chair of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), to the second letter sent by Mayor Benjamin Lim to the council recommending the acceptance of the offer of a Dagupan-based realty company to…
LINGAYEN—Asserting that he used his “situational judgment call”, Governor Amado Espino Jr. defended his decision to suspend classes in the pre-elementary and elementary schools last August 3 even without a typhoon signal raised over the province.
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