CITY Legal Officer George Mejia, a retired city judge, is ready for a face-off. The Task Force on Squatting and Urban Resettlement has officially recommended the filing of charges against Regional Trial Court Judge Robert Rudio of Branch 40 for illegally occupying a portion of the Tondaligan National Park.
LINGAYEN–First District Rep. Arthur Celeste, who is serving his last term in Congress, has set his sights on becoming the next mayor of Alaminos City. Speaking to local newsmen after the State of the Province Address of Governor Amado Espino Jr. on Monday, Celeste said he is now “100 percent…
THE City Health Office has issued an order to the Dagupan City District Jail to immediately stop discharging its waste water down the coastal areas of the city. City Health Officer Leonard Carbonell, speaking before the city council last week, said findings made by his office also indicate that the…
URDANETA CITY—A P52 million buffer fund on top of the city’s budget for this year has been set up in anticipation of the local effects of the global financial crisis. A pioneering move in the province, the buffer fund, according to Mayor Amadeo Perez Jr. can be tapped in case…
LINGAYEN–Gov. Amado Espino Jr. envisions a “Golden Age” for Pangasinan. This was underscored in his 2009 State of the Province Address delivered last Monday, highlighting the accomplishments of his administration last year.
GOLDEN AGE OF PANGASINAN—Gov. Amado Espino, Jr. (above photo) delivers his State of the Province Address last February 9 at the Capitol Plaza in Lingayen, while Vice Gov. Marlyn Primicias-Agabas listens. After Espino’s report, a beeline of government employees and teachers made a courtesy call on the governor and his…
TASK FORCE MEETING—Dagupan’s Assistant City Engineer Mar Prado (right) points out in a map a portion of the Tondaligan National Park where the city plans to put up a five-hectare housing project for employees and where some lots have already been occupied by several illegal settlers during a meeting of…
FOR CITY AND INMATES’ WELFARE THE DAGUPAN City Council is set to study plans to relocate the overcrowded Dagupan City District Jail, which currently stands at the Dagupan beach area, after it has determined that it has been regular source of pollution of the Lingayen Gulf with its daily waste…
THE city council will conduct an inquiry in aid of legislation to ascertain why it took firemen so long to put out the fire that gutted the second and third floors of the Maya Emporium and Merchandizing Store on A.B. Fernandez Avenue in Dagupan City. It took more than 13…
THE campaign against squatting at the Tondaligan Beach in Dagupan City will not spare the big fish. The judge of the Regional Trial Court Branch 41 in Dagupan City has been listed as one among the squatters identified by the city’s Task Force on Squatting and Urban Resettlement at the…
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