THE Dagupan City council has endorsed the establishment of a multi-million peso hotel and resort project proposed by the CSI Group of Companies owned by the family of Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez. However, other permits needed for the construction of the project may not be immediately issued by the city…
LINGAYEN–A group of Korean investors have presented a master plan for three of its seven proposed business ventures in the province. Representatives of JJGPK Co. Ltd., in a presentation before Governor Amado Espino Jr. during his recent trip to South Korea, outlined the development plan for the eco-tourism zone, cold storage…
SHADES OF E.O. 464 A MEMORANDUM of Mayor Benjamin dated August 6, 2010 directing all department heads and staff not to attend regular or special sessions and committee meetings of the Sangguniang Panlungsod without his clearance was roundly criticized by the city council.
INSTANT-OFFICE HEARING–City Planning and Development Coordinator Romeo Rosario (extreme right) responds to queries from members of the city council’s committee on land utilization headed by Councilor Alvin Coquia who trooped to his office for a committee hearing after failing to appear before the council. Rosario and other department heads were…
WHEN Mohammad cannot go to the mountain, the mountain will go to Mohammad. This was exactly what members of a Dagupan City council committee did on Friday when two department heads ignored their invitation to attend a scheduled hearing to give opinion on a proposed legislation.
NO TO GAG ORDER–Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez (holding a microphone) explains her position on the memorandum of Mayor Benjamin Lim directing all department heads and staff not to attend city council regular and special sessions and committee meetings unless officially permitted by the latter during the KBP Forum on Thursday. With Fernandez is…
A JOINT entrapment operation by agents of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and the Police Provincial Office caught the chief of the intelligence division of the Dagupan police for extortion.
LINGAYEN–A policeman from the Police Provincial Office (PPO) has been selected as one the Country’s Outstanding Policemen in Service (COPS). Senior Police Officer 2 Hermie Soriano Raymundo was chosen one of the best in the Police Non-Commissioned Officers Category in the 2010 Metrobank Foundation’s COPS search program.
LEADERS of the 6th District are set to lobby for the restoration of two vital flood control projects, which the Aquino administration is set to scrap after classifying these as among the “midnight deals” of the past administration.
LINGAYEN–Is the Pangasinan language dying? Yes, said Governor Amado Espino Jr. when he addressed the 10th anniversary celebration of the Ulupan na Pansiansay Salitan Pangasinan (UPSP) held at the Pangasinan State University.
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