TWO WEEKS BEFORE NEW ADMINISTRATION THE outgoing city council of Dagupan, with six of its members among those re-elected for another term of office, has granted the request of stallholders at the New Malimgas Public Market for a reprieve in the annual increase of their rental fees in the next five years….

THE outgoing Dagupan City council passed an ordinance last week discarding the pay parking scheme and the related provision that allows towing of vehicles parked in places other than the pay parking areas. The council repealed portions of Ordinance No. 1866 and passed during the term of come-backing Mayor-elect Benjamin…

LINGAYEN–Pangasinan may have been cited for being the most peaceful province in Region 1 during the last election, but re-elected Governor Amado Espino Jr. is first to admit that the political exercise was “too much divisive”. Speaking during the recognition of Deserving Philippine National Police (PNP) Personnel and Election Stakeholders…

LINGAYEN–After heading a special committee that successfully determined a researched-based date of the founding of Pangasinan, Dr. Gonzalo Duque, president of the Lyceum Northwestern University, has been given another assignment by re-elected Governor Amado Espino Jr. Through an executive order (No. 0033-2010) dated June 8, 2010, Duque has been designated chairman…

LINGAYEN–Politics is believed to be the motive for the gunslaying of the barangay chairman of Bongalon, Labrador on June 5, just four days before the official end of the election period and the gun ban. Killed by one of two men riding in tandem on motorcycle was Barangay Captain Joel Ugaban,…

A NEW school year starts this week and the longstanding problem of lack of classrooms has not changed. In fact, the lack has worsened. Education Program Supervisor Carmina Gutierrez of the Pangasinan I division said with the increase of enrollees for school year 2010-2011, the lack of classrooms has become…

ALAMINOS CITY—The city government recently granted forty-five scholarships, worth P4 million, as financial assistance to poor but deserving students for the coming school year under the Expanded Scholarship Program (CESP). Re-elected Mayor Hernani Braganza awarded 45 scholarship grants to first time city scholars during a ceremony at city hall on…

THE BEST OPTION VICE Mayor Belen Fernandez has defended a resolution of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) asking Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. to transfer the administrative control of the Seafood Processing Plant from the city government to the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR). The re-elected vice mayor, who sits as…