AS EXPECTED, Mayor Benjamin Lim stamped a partial veto on Dagupan City’s 2011 annual budget as approved by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP). The SP-approved budget was P487 million, lower by P81 million than the P568 million proposed by the mayor. In his 10-page veto letter sent to the SP on…

DAGUPAN’S budget for 2011, which had been reduced by the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) by P81 million, kept the budget for the city police intact as proposed. This clarification was made by Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez, chair of the SP, and Councilor Luis Samson Jr., chairman of the SP committee on…

RAIDS in four houses in Barangay Bonuan Binloc in Dagupan City were carried out on March 27 by a group of anti-drug authorities, resulting in the arrest of big-time illegal drug ring leaders Salonga Naga alias “Allan” and his wife, Bulawan Radja. The couple, nabbed in one of the houses,…

LINGAYEN—Another gambling activity has taken roots in the province. After jueteng came drop-ball, both illegal and now jai-alai. The difference is jai-alai has taken a legitimate front. Joint elements of the police who conducted a raid on suspected jueteng joint in Bugallon were surprised last week to find jai-alai betting operations…

FORMER 5th District Rep. Mark Cojuangco may have taken a step back on his campaign to revive the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), but he is not giving up on his proposal to build nuclear plants in Pangasinan. Cojuangco, speaking during a media forum in Dagupan last week, went…

PROVINCIAL EXECS TO DISCUSS OPTIONS LINGAYEN–Farmers and landowners are preparing to go to the Supreme Court to question the legality of the provincial ordinance that increased property taxes by more than 300 percent effective this year.

READY FOR SP VETO OVERRIDE GIVE me a reason. MAYOR Benjamin Lim, who is likely to veto some provisions of the approved 2011 budget for Dagupan City, has acknowledged that the Sangguniang Panlungsod could very well override his veto but sought justification from the council members should they decide to…

A PUBLIC prosecutor in Dagupan City was convicted by the Sandiganbayan for demanding and receiving a P20,000 bribe money from a respondent who had pending cases before his office in 2005. In a 30-page decision penned by Associate Justice Maria Cristina Cornejo, the anti-graft court’s Fourth Division handed down a…